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ND Olmstead Plan Goal #9: Improve and expand access to healthcare.
- Empower individuals with disabilities to participate in their healthcare needs.
- Provide education on the right to access healthcare, including information on patient rights, access to interpreter, right to refuse, etc.
- Increase access to specialized equipment to meet the needs of individuals with various disabilities.
- Utilize assistive and other technologies to increase independence.
- Expand mental and behavioral health services.
- Develop and implement a communications framework to ensure awareness about 988 to the public and among underserved populations.
- Develop a comprehensive suicide prevention plan focused on decreasing risk factors and increasing protective factors.
- Evaluate and revise tools and practices to ensure individuals are appropriately assessed and receive treatment to meet their needs.
- Identify underserved populations and create strategies for promoting health equity.
- Support continued development of crisis services, to include crisis beds for children with mental health conditions.
- Recognize psychiatric diagnoses and substance use disorders as a disability, not a moral failure.
- Create a movement toward seeking voluntary treatment.
- Encourage the participation of individuals with lived experience in the design of services to meet their needs.
- Increase the types of services available.
- Support a system that allows existing agencies to coordinate their actions and work together.