Regional Community Health Improvement Plan

• Goal 1: Expand the availability of brick-and-mortar shelter, transitional, and/or permanent housing units by developing, acquiring, or securing properties across Linn, Benton, and Lincoln counties.
• Goal 2: Expand and sustainably fund supportive services for shelter, transitional, and/or permanent housing.
• Goal 3: Improve data across the spectrum of shelter and housing providers to help create future progress measures and inform planning.

The long-term vision of these goals is to ensure that all Linn-Benton-Lincoln residents have safe, affordable housing with a focus on priority populations who have been economically and socially marginalized.

• Goal 1: Grow the regional healthcare workforce in innovative, supportive, and sustainable ways.
• Goal 2: Reduce barriers to Oregon Health Plan enrollment and the use of benefits.
• Goal 3: Ensure that care is timely, local, and empowering.

The long-term vision of these goals is to improve health equity and population-level health outcomes by ensuring that all Linn-Benton-Lincoln residents can access the right care at the right time and place. Community members and community-based providers will be empowered to share their perspectives with decision-makers to address the root causes of health inequities.

• Goal 1: Use a person-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed approach to behavioral health promotion and destigmatization through education, communication, and engagement.
• Goal 2: Increase access to responsive, transformative behavioral health services and supports that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.
• Goal 3: Develop and improve a comprehensive continuum of care that integrates regional behavioral health systems and community-based organizations (CBOs) using a person-centered and community-focused approach.

The long-term vision of these goals is to ensure that all Linn-Benton-Lincoln residents have equitable access to behavioral health support and treatments.

• Goal 1: Change systems, remove barriers, nurture equity, and improve well-being.
• Goal 2: Increase inclusion, diversity, antiracism, and equity (IDARE) and gender justice education and accountability measures in the system of services.
• Goal 3: Improve the process of collecting, using, owning, and sharing data by creating a data task force.

The long-term vision of these goals is to transform health and public health systems to increase inclusion, well-being, and community participation and engagement in the decision-making processes.