Mental Health and Addiction
Action Teams
Living Well Medina County named Mental Health and Addiction the top priority area to address in the 2024 – 2030 Community Health Improvement Plan. Many organizations, teams, coalitions, and agencies are working hard to implement evidence-based strategies. Below you will see our goals, strategies, and assessments that will help us reach our 2030 goals in Medina County.
Goals
- Reduce age adjusted suicide rate from 11.5 to HP2030 goal of 10.2 per 100,000
- Reduce age-adjusted prevalence of Medina County adults (18+) with depression from 22.1% to below US percentage of 19.8%
- Increase the percentage of adults, age 60 and older, who report hardly ever feeling left out from 77.4% (2019) to 86% (2029) (State Plan on Aging)
- Reduce number of young adults who report 3 or more adverse childhood experiences (ACES).
- Reduce Medina County Drug Overdose deaths from 24.8 per 100,000 to HP2030 goal of 20.7 per 100,000.
- Maintain adolescent smoking rate of 1.7% below the HP2030 goal of 11.3%
- Reduce adult smoking rate of 18% to below HP2030 goal of 17.4%