| Community
Initiatives
For
Future Generations
Creating
Opportunities for Young Adults in West Virginia
The
West Virginia Center for Civic Life in partnership with
West Virginia Campus Compact's colleges and students has
developed an issue framework on the future that exists for
young adults in West Virginia. Forums around the state
will provide needed dialogue in order to seek improvements
economically, socially, and culturally that will appeal
to the state's young adults.
Approaches
for the For Future Generations Deliberation
| Approach
One
Build
Career and Advancement Opportunities |
Approach
Two
Share
West Virginia's Traditions and Connect to the World's
Diversity
|
Approach
Three
Empower
Citizens to Build From Within |
Examining Health
Care
What's the Public's
Prescription?
The
West Virginia Center for Civic Life and its partners have
an ongoing commitment to promote forum discussions on the
publicly framed topic of Examining Health Care. Initial
health care forum discussions in Keyser, Welch, Charleston,
and Morgantown have produced wonderful insight into the
issue from concerned West Virginians. They also contributed
to the health care program the Legacy Series: A Prescription
for Health Care on WV Public Broadcasting.
STRATEGY
FOR ORGANIZING YOUR COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE FORUM
Approaches
for the Health Care Deliberation
Each
approach reflects a different way to think about the problem,
broad enough to embrace a common attitude.
Each
will explain what a lot of different people care about.
There will be
benefits, drawbacks, and trade-offs that have to be weighed
- consequences that have to be determined - for each course.
Examining
Health Care: What's the Public's Prescription?
|
Approach
One Connected Parts, Not Fragmented Pieces
We
call our current method of delivering health care
often chaotic and disjointed, with each of its many
hands not knowing what the others are doing. The result
is a situation that is ripe for medical mistakes,
waste and fraud. We need to connect all the
fragmented, inefficient pieces of health care into
an effective system, where information flows readily
and the various parts work in concert.
|
Approach
Two
Partners,
Not Just Patients
We
need to create new relationships in health care where
consumers and professionals work hand in hand.
We need to take time to communicate, to help people
make informed decisions, and to educate for healthy
lifestyles. The best way to improve health care
is to lay a firm foundation for individual
responsibility,
which will result in long term savings |
Approach
Three
Care
for All, Not Just for Some
We
need to set new priorities in health care aimed at
providing people the care they need when they need
it. We need to seal up the cracks in the system
so that people don't fall through. We need a
steadfast commitment to providing the medical treatment
that each person needs. This is the best way
to improve individual health and prevent illnesses
that can be difficult and expensive to treat. |
Past
Initiatives
Public Education
What's the Public's Role
in Public Education?
(Downloadable
Issue Guide)
Ties That Bind - Report on the
Forums
West Virginians talk about their
relationship with Public Schools
(October
2000 Report pt.1 | October
2000 Report pt.2)
Economic Development
Making Ends
Meet:
What Should We Do to Support
West Virginia's
Working Families?
(Downloadable Issue Guide)
- (February
2001 Report)
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