Strategic Priorities
Learn more about HCCA’s community-informed goals
How HCCA prioritizes its work
Dozens of community members along with staff and board members identified local public health and quality of life needs that were developed into strategic priorities to guide the organization’s work.
1. Community Connectedness - bringing together community members of all ages and walks of life to celebrate one another and the communities in which we live and to inform and contribute to public health and quality of life interventions.
2. Health Equity - creating healthy communities by prioritizing those most at risk for poor health outcomes by addressing health disparities (social or economic disadvantages) and social determinants of health (non-medical factors that influence health).
3. Traditional Public Health Issues - continuing to focus on primary prevention efforts in the areas of tobacco use, substance misuse, healthy eating, and active living in an effort to decrease the overall burden of chronic disease and addiction.
4. Climate - implementing local level public health strategies to minimize the negative health outcomes related to climate change.
Transportation and housing were identified as priority areas that are outside HCCA’s scope of work but will be integrated as feasible and appropriate.