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The purpose of this plan is to analyze various county and tribal response efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify approaches to better address future pandemics. The overarching goal is to better prepare the region for future public health related disruptions.
The North Central Wisconsin Regional Health Pandemic Assessment Plan seeks to analyze county and tribal public health responses to coronavirus within the Region and to create recommendations that would assist counties and tribal entities to better manage health related disruptions in the future. The goals of this assessment include:
Analyzing county and tribal response to the COVID-19 pandemic including
1. Identifying key priority areas
2. Analyzing what did and did not work well and where additional support was needed to maintain best practices
3. Creating recommendations to better deal with future pandemic and health related disruptions
The purpose of this plan is to guide economic stabilization, recovery, and resiliency efforts within the North Central Wisconsin Region in the face of the current pandemic as well as future events that cause economic shocks. The goal of this plan is to develop a set of strategies that will help the Region’s local economies recover from and become more resilient to economic shocks by identifying best-practice strategies that help spur economic stabilization and recovery in the wake of economic shocks and that will help build local economic resilience. Helping local recovery and resiliency efforts will help the regional economy as a whole recover and grow back even stronger than before the disaster struck.
As part of the planning process, five foundational pillars were identified as being crucial for the future prosperity of North Central Wisconsin. These five pillars include: Broadband, Childcare, Housing & Transportation, Workforce & Talent Attraction, and Tourism & Hospitality.
Click to access the Regional Recovery Plan
The Regional Recovery Plan contains the following chapters:
1 – Introduction
2 – Economic Environment
3 – The Disruption
4 – Analysis of Foundational Pillars
5 – Regional Recovery Strategy
Assessment Reports
As part of the Regional Recovery Plan planning process, five Assessment Reports were prepared covering the five foundational pillars identified by the Advisory Committee as being critical for a strong economic recovery and increasing economic resilience within North Central Wisconsin: Broadband, Childcare, Housing & Transportation, Workforce & Talent Attraction, and Tourism & Hospitality.
Each of the Assessment Reports contains the following six sections:
Introduction
Status
Issues
Impact of COVID-19
Benefits of Improving the Status of Each Pillar
Vision
Access to each Assessment Report is available below:
As the Region continues to recover from the pandemic and build towards a more prosperous future, local communities and organizations can use the North Central Wisconsin Regional Recovery Dashboard to help track the Region’s progress on issues that were identified in the Regional Recovery Plan as crucial to the prosperity of North Central Wisconsin.
