Strategic Spartanburg

Spartanburg will increase the number of healthy families in the county by using best practice strategies that have measurable results and encourage collaboration. Creating a community of healthy families involves addressing the issues of obesity, low birth weight, and drug and alcohol admissions, both for adults and teens. Many of the strategies for improvement in these areas involve opportunities for collaboration. Other strategies focus on environmental and policy change. Access to care and the need for primary prevention/disease management and health insurance are challenges that our community must meet if Spartanburg is to have healthy families.

The purpose of the 2006-2010 Community Improvement Plan is to use the data in Strategic: Community Indicators VI to influence the improvement of Spartanburg and the quality of life for its citizens.  More than 300 Spartanburg citizens contributed to the creation of the Community Improvement Plan.  Each Taskforce developed a comprehensive executive summary report plan  for addressing the issues.  In the following pages you can see the priorities, opportunities, best practices, and partnerships that the Taskforces recommend using to make significant improvement.  By sharing this information it is our hope to provide a common ground for public, private and non-profit leaders to work together to address these and other related issues.