PLANS & GOALS
The Fairfield County ADAMH Board's plans and goals for our community.
The Fairfield County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health (ADAMH) Board is responsible to plan, fund, and monitor public mental health and substance abuse services in Fairfield County. The ADAMH Board fulfills its mandate by engaging key community stakeholders to provide input into its activities.
Fairfield County ADAMH Board Community Plan SFY 2023-2025
Describe the community needs assessment process that led to the identification of the local priorities the Board will address. Describe how the Board engaged local and regional planning and funding bodies, relevant ethnic organizations, providers and people living with or recovering from mental illness and addiction in evaluating needs, evaluating strengths and challenges and setting priorities for treatment and prevention for SEY 2021-2022. [ORC 340.03 (A)(1)(a)].
Fairfield County ADAMH Board Community Plan Inventory
Strategic Plan
Fairfield County Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health (ADAMH) Board Three Year Strategic Goals (SFY 2021 - 2023)
Goal 1: Combat the opioid crisis through the expansion of prevention, treatment, and recovery support services*1
- Accomplish this goal by building a crisis stabilization unit for Fairfield County to open by 2022.
- Balance the prevention programming across age groups and throughout the county.
- Maintain treatment and recovery supports that are evidenced-based and that demonstrate impact.
- Develop innovative recovery programming.
Goal 2: Address serious mental illness and serious emotional disturbances*2
- Improve access to services through programming and public relations.
- Balance treatment and stabilization services across the lifespan and throughout the county.
- Develop and disseminate high quality communication tools for funded programming.
- Support the development of additional programming capacity and service provision that address all age-groups to ensure an entire continuum of care.
Goal 3: Improve data collection, analysis, dissemination, and program and policy evaluation*3
- Develop and engage in a robust process to seek and monitor needed services in the community.
- Develop a data dashboard from multiple sources that will inform board members, staff members, and the community.
- Collaborate with other community agencies and stakeholders to monitor comorbidities associated with opioid misuse including co-occurring substance disorders.
Continuum of Care
A comprehensive approach to behavioral health means seeing prevention, treatment, and recovery supports all as part of an overall continuum of care. The Behavioral Health Continuum of Care Model recognizes multiple opportunities for addressing behavioral health problems and disorders.