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Walworth County public health outlines 2025 Community Health Assessment and CHIP, highlights substance-use outreach
Summary
Public health staff reported progress on the 2022'2025 Community Health Improvement Plan, described planning for a joint 2025 Community Health Assessment with local hospital partners, and summarized a recent substance-use data walk that drew 23 participants and highlighted opioid deaths averaging about 12'15 per year.
Walworth County public health staff on Jan. 22, 2025, updated the Health and Human Services board on the county's 2022'2025 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) and sketched plans for the 2025 Community Health Assessment (CHA). Staff also reported results of a substance-use data walk and discussed harm-reduction vending machines as one possible intervention.
Presenters: Mallory Betke, community health supervisor, and Erin Winden, public health specialist, led the briefing. Betke described a "bridal mapping" exercise the steering committee used to document unanticipated effects and durable community connections arising from the CHIP. "We really took those answers and we started that bridal map is what we call it," Betke said, summarizing how the committee identified partnerships, policy or structural changes and who benefits from the CHIP.
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