Throughout this CHIP cycle, we will release awareness campaigns and prevention information into our community to raise awareness on mental health disorders and issues, reduce stigma surrounding mental health, and seek to educate the public through these means. Part of how we will measure the success of these events is by how many people attend. 

[How Much] What's Helping What We Do? These are the positive forces at work in our strategy/ program that influence how much we do or how well we do it.

• Popularity of social media and reposting event flyers

• Great network to share event flyers and info with via email

• Interest from local news outlets (paper, radio, tv) to share event information

[How Much] What's Hurting What We Do? These are the negative forces at work in our strategy/program that influence how much we do or how well we do it.

• People are constantly bombarded with things they can attend

• People are extremely busy

• Lack of transportation to events, the day/time may not work for all, etc

The following actions have been identified by our Healthy Carolinians of Jackson County, community members and stakeholders as ideas for what can work for this performance measure to make a difference on prevention and awareness for mental health.

(A) Actions and Approaches Identified by Our Healthy Carolinians of Jackson County, community members and stakeholders

 These are actions and approaches that we think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Outreach to older population through Department on Aging and partnering for events

• Partnering with schools and students to host events within the school day, during school/child care pick up times to reach parents

(B) No-cost and Low-cost Ideas Identified by Our Healthy Carolinians of Jackson County, community members and stakeholders

These are no-cost and low-cost actions and approaches that we think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Events free to the public that have relatively low-cost for agencies to support

• Health Educators promoting education for free within the school system during the school day

(C) What your customers think would work to do better

These are actions and approaches that our customers think can make a difference for this performance measure.

• Boosting mental health with students through activities that boost self-esteem

(D) List of Questions/Research Agenda These are questions to follow-up on for this performance measure. 

• What events, in addition to Climb Out of the Darkness, can we support in Jackson County that are already being done in the US?

• How can we best support student mental health, reduce bullying, impact positive self-esteem, etc?