They develop health education, prevention, and wellness programs. Task forces include domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse, children's health, youth resource network, teen pregnancy, and college community computer network. Recently, this committee's task forces held domestic violence and child abuse workshops and implemented a pilot computerized Information and Referral Network to improve access by the public and facilitate coordination among human services agencies. Health Services Access Committee - Members of this committee identify and work to alleviate barriers to accessing health and human service agencies. This includes linguistic, cultural, economic, transportation, availability and perceptual barriers.
Members also develop ways to improve coordination and clinical integration of social services.
Task forces include managed care, transportation, homelessness, and spiritual health. Recently, the managed care task force developed and distributed a helpful brochure on understanding managed care. They conduct comparative analysis of local, state, national, and Healthy People 2000 data and implement continuous quality improvement measures. Subcommittees include community health needs assessment survey and community health needs assessment focus groups. This committee is working on the follow-up community health needs assessment being conducted in 1999 and 2000.