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Citizens should advocate for the creation of small schools or `families" within schools, so that a lower student-teacher ratio will provide more individualized instruction. Objective 4. Promote healthy kJ'eslyles and positive interpersonal dynamics. The HHCDC should seek ways to augment substance abuse prevention efforts, increase the availability of counseling services, expand student peer mediation programs, and facilitate community trainings on recognizing symptoms of potential personal and interpersonal difficulties. t,oa15. Provide residents with basic infrastructure and services before addressing other issues. While quality and accessible employment is a high priority, this planning process revealed an even greater emphasis on the need to provide basic services to residents in the areas of health, waste, physical improvements, and land access. The HHCDC should address these issues before focusing too much time and energy on developing businesses which cater to visitors. Objective 1. Improve residents' access to a wider variety of health care options. The HHCDC should work with the regional health care provider to explore satellite day and long-term facilities, as well as preventative, home-based and mobile caze services. Such initiatives should specifically include drug and alcohol treatment. Objective 2. Develop an ecologically sound waste management system for the coastal region. The HHCDC should work with the county to develop a waste and recycling collection service, establish a green waste processing facility, and establish a recycling center. This system should include education in the areas of source reduction, materials reuse, composting, and biological waste treatment systems such as constructed wetlands. Objective 3. Improve the physical infrastructure. The HHCDC should work with the county and state to ensure that public works projects warrant the highest priority, particulazly road paving, light installations, street and special site sigaage, sidewalks, public restrrooms, and school and public bus shelters stations. If such stations included public restrooms, other local businesses, and health care services, people would be more likely to use all the services and public transportation. Objective 4. Advocate for residents' access to lands used traditionally for food gathering and recreation. The HHCDC should establish a Land Access Task Force, involving all stakeholders, to negotiate public access easements for hunting, gathering, fishing, and camping, which are commonly viewed by island residents as basic survival rights. Goa16. Involve citizens in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of all regional improvement strategies. Objective 1. Maintain, support, and expand resident participation in aU aspects of district community associations. The HHCDC should advocate for public participation in regional social events, political organizing campaigns, intergenerational sharing, and the continual assessment of success towards the goals in this Plan. The HHCDC should diversify its promotional and outreach efforts to ensure a greater and wider variety of participation in its sponsored activities. 19