Vision:
Health & Safety
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Health & Safety Vision
The New Century Region is a world leader in
public and private education.
Health & Safety Strategies
Overall Strategies
Convert our health
care system to one based on wellness and prevention throughout life by making personal
responsibility for wellness part of our regional culture. Health in the New Century Region
is broadly defined as personal well-being and a healthy community.
Make personal wellness
and health education part of the curricula, beginning in elementary school. Use resources
to better educate the public on the benefits of personal wellness. Reduce the teenage
pregnancy rate 50 percent by the year 2005 through increasing education on prevention and
parenting.
- Promote a "Fit-for-Life" philosophy in the New
Century Region which:
- Establishes effective prenatal care as an integral part of the
health care system in the region;
- Assures that a family-centered, community-based system of
primary care is available and accessible for all children;
- Develops and maintains comprehensive adolescent health service
throughout the region;
- Establishes innovative and effective methods and mechanisms to
address the health needs of our aging population;
- Establishes health and fitness profiles for every primary and
secondary student in the region.
Install regional
public safety task forces for the areas of law enforcement and fire and rescue to provide
for the optimal use of associated human, financial and equipment resources.
Study the feasibility
of a regional jail farm, jointly funded by New Century governments, to house prisoners who
will not be transferred to the state correctional system. This would prevent numerous
expansions of local jails and potentially save the taxpayers of the region substantial tax
dollars.
Expand the juvenile
first offenders programs established in Alleghany County to cover the entire region.
Broaden educational
efforts, beginning with elementary grades, to teach students the dangers of driving under
the influence of alcohol and drugs and stress programs geared for traffic and personal
safety.
Create a peer court
system for first-time juvenile offenders under 18 years of age.
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Safety
- Strategy 1: Install three "Regional Public Safety
Task Forces" (one each) for the areas of law enforcement, fire, and rescue to foster
a partnership and team work between each of these functions and government, public, and
private industry and to provide for the optimal use of associated human, financial,
facility, and equipment resources.
- Added Strategy: Create in The New Century Region a peer
court to mete out justice to first offenders under the age of 18.
- Added Strategy: Build a regional prison farm to house
inmates currently serving longer-term sentences in our local jails. This would reduce the
need to expand numerous existing jails and create a more productive facility that could
produce food and products for cost savings in normal jail facilities.
- Added Strategy: Turn the Mill Mountain Star red for 48
hours following any traffic fatality caused by a drunk driver in the New Century Region.
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Health
Care & Wellness
- Strategy 1: Convert our healthcare system to one based
on wellness and prevention throughout life by making personal responsibility for wellness
part of our regional culture. Health in the New Century Region is broadly defined as
personal well-being and a healthy community.
- Strategy 2: Promote a "Fit-for-Life"
philosophy in the New Century Region.
- Strategy 3: Provide a nationally recognized training and
continuing education center for health care.
- Strategy 4: Encourage health providers and business
community to interact together to maximize the benefits of healthcare reform.
- Strategy 5: Improve healthcare access for children of
all ages, to include school health. Reduce the Region's teenage pregnancy rate by 50
percent. Establish innovative and effective prenatal care as a functional part of the
healthcare system for the Region.
- Strategy 6: Establish innovative and effective
methods/mechanisms to address health needs of the aging population.
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