Healthy Blair County Coalition discusses results of community needs survey

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Wholesome Blair County Coalition held a assembly Friday morning to examine the results of their 2021 group desires assessment study, as properly as communicate with other group leaders about other initiatives.

The assessment confirmed that mental health was the variety just one domestic problem from the 3000 surveys that they had sent to random houses.

“Mental health and fitness problems in our group have often been determined as an challenge,” HBCC Director Coleen Heim mentioned. “But you know as a end result of the pandemic the worry of men and women dropping their careers or the worry of kids not staying capable to go to school.”

Specially, a number of assessments and initial hand experience from team leaders determined one of a kind difficulties that the county’s youth are working with, such as social isolation, sedentary lifestyles and bullying. The assistant director at the South Central PA Center for Independent Residing, Marty Dombrowski, says that young ones will need to know what aid is out there for them.

“Knowing who in the neighborhood is providing what source or what aid,” Dombrowski explained. “So that if a youth needs some extra assistance, they know who to request and where the relatives or the person can transform to get help.”

The coalition also collaborated with area companies to struggle being overweight and market energetic lifestyles by becoming a member of the Spark In shape City Challenge. The problem information the figures of active minutes that are recorded by a man or woman or group and compares them versus the 92 other metropolitan areas across the state that participated. Blair County completed fifth, at the rear of only Cleveland, Akron, Pittsburgh and Columbus.

Weight problems was recognized as the second leading situation in a single home survey, guiding overuse and addiction to social media and mobile phones.