Priorities
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RecoveryOhio is working to provide a full continuum of care to all of Ohio. RecoveryOhio’s goals are to create a system to help make treatment available to Ohioans in need, provide support services for those in recovery and their families, offer direction for the state’s prevention and education efforts, and work with local law enforcement to provide resources to fight illicit drugs at the source.
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3. Workforce Development
The mental health and addiction (behavioral health) treatment workforce is a complex and growing system made up of many professionals of varying levels of training and education.
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1. Stigma and Education
Negative attitudes and beliefs toward people living with a mental health or in recovery from a substance use disorder are common and harmful.
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2. Parity
Ohio passed a limited version of parity legislation in 2006, well in advance of many other states and the federal government.
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3. Workforce Development
The mental health and addiction (behavioral health) treatment workforce is a complex and growing system made up of many professionals of varying levels of training and education.
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4. Prevention
Effective strategies to reduce the prevalence of mental illness and addiction conditions and decrease adverse outcomes require a full continuum of care, including health promotion, evidence-based prevention and treatment, and recovery resources to support healthy living.
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5. Harm Reduction
Harm reduction is a public health strategy to reduce the harms associated with certain behaviors.
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5. Harm Reduction
Harm reduction is a public health strategy to reduce the harms associated with certain behaviors.
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6. Treatment and Recovery Supports
Each year, nearly 2.3 million Ohioans (20 percent of the population) experience a mental health condition, a mental health condition, with 575,000 experiencing severe symptoms.
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