Mental and Behavioral Health
A Health Priority
Mental and behavioral health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act, and helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices.
Many factors contribute to our mental health, including trauma, our physical and biological health, drug/alcohol use, and feelings of loneliness or isolation.Â
Access to services, prevention, and intervention are key to maintaining or improving mental and behavioral health. Our community can improve mental health by improving access to mental health services, promoting prevention and support services, and removing stigma associated with mental health conditions and substance use disorder.
Together We Can...
Decrease The Suicide Rate
Decrease Opioid Overdose Deaths
Decrease Disparities in
Mental Health Outcomes
Decrease Self-Report of
Unhealthy/Very Unhealthy
WCHD Is...
Promoting
Explaining That Substance Use Disorder
Is A Chronic Disease
Improving Access
Hosting A Harm Reduction Program To Build A Path To Recovery
Providing Free Naloxone and
Free Naloxone Training
Progress Made...
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- Free naloxone and naloxone training is readily available throughout the community
- Providing Red Boxes with free naloxone to businesses throughout the community
- A Opioid Response Team that works to address the opioid crisis through the plan outlined by the Illinois Department of Public Health meets monthlyÂ
- Xylazine, Nitazene, and Fentanyl test strips are available for free through WCHD’s harm reduction program
- A Community Mental Health Board has been established and is working to address gaps in mental health access in the community
- Encouraging everyone in Winnebago County to take ten minutes for their mental wellbeing
- Provided access to the TakeTen815 website with CredibleMind – a free, self-care website with trusted mental health resourceÂ
