Behavioral Health
Behavioral Health refers to behaviors related to mental health and/or substance abuse. Services are aimed at adjusting individual behaviors across the lifespan. Particularly important to Nevada are suicide and alcohol. These two behaviors affect people across the lifespan and are areas of concern in both urban and rural Nevada.
Resourceful Communities
Resourceful Communities are communities in which children have opportunities to grow into healthy and productive adults, and adults have the knowledge and resources to care for themselves and their families as well as build community well-being, thereby contributing to a healthy Nevada.
Physical Health
Physical Health is only one dimension of health. A physically healthy person is physically active, eats a well-balanced diet, maintains recommended body weight, gets sufficient sleep, practices safe sex, minimizes his/her exposure to environmental hazards, avoids harmful drugs, and seeks medical care as needed. Lack of availability or opportunity to achieve these parameters would be defined as health disparities and is a concern in Nevada.
Social Well-Being
Social Well-Being is considered those aspects of life that society collectively agrees are important for a person’s happiness, quality of life, and welfare. Social well-being is the interest of people in groups, which is not always the same as the people within it – there are often conflicts between the interest of individuals, families and communities. Healthy resolution of natural conflict is a goal of individual, families and communities. More>>
Public Safety
Public Safety is fundamental to well-being; violence and avoidable injuries threaten life itself. They reduce the quality of life for the victim and other people in a multitude of ways. Both public safety and security are important. Safety is freedom from physical or emotion harm, while security is freedom from the threat or fear of harm or danger. Violence and injury corrode quality of life in many ways. Physical injury causes pain and incapacity, reducing victims’ enjoyment of life and their ability to do things that are important to them.
If you are interested in further information, or have any questions, please feel free to contact Priscilla Bender at (775) 530-5220 or pkbhome@charter.net