ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - APG leaders and community members met March 18 for the quarterly Community Health Promotion Council meeting in Bldg. 6002.
The meeting was chaired by Acting Senior Commander Col. Charles Gibson. In his opening remarks, Gibson said Team APG continues to receive recognition and praise for the programming and services offered on the installation.
"You do a lot of great work here when it comes to integrating and synchronizing our capabilities amongst Team APG, and our communities and I are grateful for that," he said.
After Gibson's remarks, leaders and subject matter experts briefed the audience.
APG Health Promotions Officer Wendy LaRoche said CHPC's goal is to continue recruiting APG and community leaders into the CHPC process.
"It's great to hear what our surrounding communities are doing to make our communities healthier. We get to share best practices," LaRoche said. "The goal is to make sure that we include the surrounding counties. The plan is to have all counties represented. We want to work together to meet a common goal -- healthier community."
Daniel Coulter from the Cecil County Health Department said a working group has highlighted several health improvement priorities for Cecil County. These include better access to behavioral health and substance abuse treatment and reducing child abuse and childhood obesity.
Bari Klien, who represents the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, the Harford County Health Department and the non-profit agency Healthy Harford, also attended the gathering.
Klien said the Maryland State Police Barrack D in Bel Air, off of Route 1, has a permanent collection box for unused, unwanted and expired medications. This box allows residents to drop off medications at any time. For more information, call 410-879-2101.
APG Garrison SHARP representative 1st Lt. Raisa Velez shared that several activities are planned during April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The events will kick off with an Installation Sexual Assault Awareness 5K Run, 6:30 to 8:30 a.m., at Capa Field in APG South (Edgewood) April 3. SAAM activities are listed on the APG website, http://www.apg.army.mil/ and will be announced in the APG News.
Capt. Richard Mozeleski, commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, U.S. Army Garrison, briefed attendees on the Ready and Resiliency Campaign (R2C), the Army's holistic approach to total health care. Mozeleski talked about the standardized metrics that were recently established to measure the effectiveness of R2C.
He said several upcoming resiliency events are scheduled. For more information, see the APG website and APG News.
The CHPC has added a new team that is critical to Resiliency, the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness 2/Master of Resiliency Team. Program Lead and 1st Sgt. Thomas Cruz, from the 308th Military Intellegence Battalion, mentioned that APG has 28 Master of Resiliency trained professionals, Soldiers and civilians.
Deputy Commmander for Nursing/Health Services Lt. Col. Leonetta Oliphant, from Kirk U.S. Army Health Clinic, shared that the Army Wellness Center, located on the third floor of KUSAHC, is launching a new healthy habits sleep class. Oliphant said 'Eat, Move and Sleep' make up the Performance Triad, a pilot program by the Office of the Surgeon General and Army Medicine. For more information about AWC programs, call 410-306-1024.
Cindy Scott, from the Army Substance Abuse Program, said May 14 will be Employee Health and Fitness Day. This event will be part of the Installation's Armed Forces Week activities. The day will include a "Bike to Work" event in the morning and distracted/drunk driving simulation activity.
Ending the CHPC meeting were briefings from various working groups representing physical wellbeing, spiritual health, suicide prevention and risk reduction. Each discussed how the working groups were helping to build resiliency through events and programming
The next CHPC meeting is tentatively set for June 25. For more information on upcoming CHPC events, visit http://www.apg.army.mil/APGHome/sites/commander/CHPC/healthpromotion.cfm or call LaRoche at 410-278-1153, or e-mail wendy.c.laroche.civ@mail.mil.
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