Health Council

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.gcchc.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gcchc.org"><U>Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Calendar"><U>Calendar</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grant County Information"><U>Grant County Information</U></A></div> <div> Health Council</div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Council Staff"><U>Council Staff</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Community Meetings "><U>Community Meetings </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Community Enhancement Fund"><U>Community Enhancement Fund</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Highlights "><U>Highlights </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id453.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Resource Directories"><U>Resource Directories</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id540.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Breastfeeding Council"><U>Breastfeeding Council</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Grant County Community Health Council   </B></div> <div> Health Council</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="24136fd0.jpg" border=0 width="566" height="253" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>The Health Council at the 2011 Health Council Retreat at the Grant County Business & Conference Center..</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The GCCHC will meet TBA at the County Commissioners' Board Room in the Grant County Administrative Complex, 1400 Hwy 180.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> </B></I></div> <div> The Grant County Community Health Council is composed of <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GCCHC Members"><U><B><U>30-members</U></B></U></A><B>,</B> each member is an innovated leader in a sector of the community. </div> <bR> <div> As the health and wellness planning authority for for Grant County, the Health Council uses their combined political clout and extensive network of community contacts to funnel volunteer efforts and grant money to projects the community is in need of most. </div> <bR> <div> The members are appointed by the Grant County Commission. The Health Council meets quarterly.<B> </B><A HREF="id462.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health Council Minutes"><U><B>Click here for Health Council minutes.</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> Seven Health Council members, including the Co Chairs, serve on the Steering Committee that meets monthly to review goals, develop agendas and recommendations for the Health Council meetings. <A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health Council Committees"><U><B>Click here to learn more about the Health Council's various committees</B></U></A><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The GCCHC has set these Top Priorities for 2011:</B></div> <div> • Expand <A HREF="id478.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Priority: Behavioral Health"><U><B>behavioral health</B></U></A> programs and treatment options in the region.</div> <div> • Address <A HREF="id480.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Priority: Community Safety"><U><B>community safety</B></U></A><A HREF="id480.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Priority: Community Safety"><U> </U></A>to lower the rate of unintentional injuries in the county.</div> <div> • Encourage <A HREF="id477.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Priority: Economic Development"><U><B>economic development</B></U></A><A HREF="id477.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Priority: Economic Development"><U> </U></A>to bring about change in community health status.</div> <div> • Increase the number of <A HREF="id481.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Priority: Family Resiliency"><U><B>resilient families</B></U></A> in the community.</div> <div> • Raise <A HREF="id479.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Priority: Fitness Nutrition"><U><B>fitness and nutrition</B></U></A> levels of residents.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id141.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ByLaws"><U><B><U> </U></B></U></A><A HREF="id141.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ByLaws"><U><B><U>Grant County Community Health Council By laws. </U></B></U></A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0ec340e0.jpg" border=0 width="308" height="270" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>Members Dr. Don Johnson and John Rossfeld at the Health Council's Annual Forum in July 2004.</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>The GCCHC has championed many causes in the community including:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Administer <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Community Enhancement Fund"><U><B>Community Enhancament Fund</B></U></A><B> </B>promote our community to bring speakers and trainings that otherwise might not be possible to Grant Coutny. Since 2006, the fund has awarded $250,000 to community partners.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant for <A HREF="http://www.grantcountyhealthykidshealthycommunities.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.grantcountyhealthykidshealthy"><U><B>Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities</B></U></A> to promote policy changes to support healither eating and active living in Grant County.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Coordinated <I><B>Ready, Set Safe - Grant County!</B></I>, a community safety fair to promote injury prevention and defensible space sponsored by the National Library of Medicine.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Continues to coordinate <A HREF="id537.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Red Hot Childrens Fiesta"><U><B>the Red Hot Children's Fietsa</B></U></A><B>,</B> the largest children's development resource fair in southwest New Mexico.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Held community forms with public officials on the <B>Ft. Bayard Hospital</B> construction and <B>Historic Fort Bayard</B>.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Held <A HREF="id313.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Town Hall on Methamphetamines"><U><B>Town Halls</B></U></A> on methamphetamine use in the community.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Brought <A HREF="http://www.correcaminos-swrtd.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.correcaminos-swrtd.com/"><U><B>Corres Caminos</B></U></A>, a countywide public transit system, to the area.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Envisioned <B>Family Support Centers</B> to provide a place to strengthen family bonds in the county and secured funding for four centers that opened in Bayard, Cliff/Gila, Mimbres and Silver City.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Supported the Career and Technical Education Program offering comprehensive career and technical education degrees to high school students at the Cobre and Silver Consolidated Schools, and Western New Mexico University. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Endorsed the New Mexico Health Care Plan, offering health insurance to all New Mexicans.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Conceived the idea of a <A HREF="http://www.tvcgrantcounty.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.tvcgrantcounty.org/"><U><B>Volunteer Center</B></U></A> and brought it to fruitation by locating grant money and creating a Board of Directors for the project that opened its doors this year.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Helped support the Medication Assistance Program that assists patients with no-cost or low-cost medications.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="088e2d40.jpg" border=0 width="482" height="212" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>Council members Don Johnson, Tony Trujillo, and Sam Redford at a meeting.</I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>