Health Care, Behavioral Health and Social Services

One focus of the Fort Carson Regional Growth Plan is improving the delivery of health care and social services to soldiers and their families. As part of this, the Growth Plan is identifying existing resources and networks as well as recommending improvements based on quantitative analysis and input from military families.

The Fort Carson Regional Growth Plan will assess the adequacy of existing health care/behavior health services to meet the increased demands associated with the increase in troops and their family members. A key component of this will be improving the intake process for these services to make it more efficient, coordinated and easily accessible. Phase Two of the Growth Plan will also determine how various factors (e.g. income, debt, access methods) affect the rates at which services are accessed.

Among the recommendations of the study will be a business and organizational plan for the military community assistance center, including recommendations on ways to expand/improve upon current usage, education/outreach and potential partnerships with existing agencies.

A Social Services Partnership Group  and a Health/Behavioral Health Partnership Group   meet regularly to help inform this analysis.

Phase One Overview
The complete Phase One Growth Plan which includes the following reports on Health Care, Behavioral Health and Social Services is available for download here (please note that these sectors were split into separate sections during Phase One):

• Social Services Chapter
• Social Services Technical Report
• Social Services Recommendations
• Health and Behavioral Health Care Chapter
• Health and Behavioral Health Care Technical Report
• Health and Behavioral Health Care Recommendations

 
Please note that this information represents the best available data from the time the Phase One report was published in July 2008. This information will be updated with the latest data collected during Phase Two.