2024 IBHC Strategic Planning

Infrastructure #1: Workforce

Implement strategies to increase recruitment and retention to strengthen the behavioral health professional workforce.

Promotion #1: Program Awareness and Reduction of Stigma

Develop an outreach and marketing strategy to increase awareness of publicly and privately funded programs and services. Address and reduce behavioral health stigma.

Prevention #1: Primary Prevention Programs and Protective Factors

Identify and implement coordinated evidence-based or evidence-informed primary prevention strategies that support community, family, and child well-being.
Identify opportunities to minimize risk factors and enhance protective factors and promote long-term resiliency in children, youth, and adults with a significant emphasis on those having trauma symptoms.

Prevention #2: Foster Care

Collaborate across IDHW Divisions and IDJC to expand services to youth residing in out-of-home placements, foster care, and adoptive family homes.

Engagement #4: Diversion Systems

Develop early diversion and deflection tactics to avoid long-term engagement with the criminal justice system: prearrest, post arrest, and beyond.

Engagement #9A: Help the Helpers

Provide support to individuals with occupational exposure to secondary trauma from working in the justice system, crisis response, and as first responders, and their families.

Treatment #1: Crisis Centers

Expand the functionality of crisis centers.

Treatment #3: Criminal Justice–Continuum of Care

Ensure continuity of care for those entering and leaving the criminal justice system by providing treatment and ensuring links to services for those coming out of incarceration.

Treatment #4: Treatment Courts

Support Treatment Court programs.

Treatment #5: Competency Restoration

Review and reform the competency restoration process for adults (18-211/212) and juveniles.

Recovery #1: Supportive Housing

Increase availability of supportive housing for people with behavioral health conditions.