Healthy Blair County Coalition discusses results of community needs survey

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Healthful Blair County Coalition held a meeting Friday early morning to examine the findings of their 2021 neighborhood wants evaluation study, as very well as discuss with other team leaders about other initiatives.

The evaluation showed that mental wellness was the variety a single domestic situation from the 3000 surveys that they had sent to random properties.

“Mental wellness worries in our neighborhood have constantly been identified as an difficulty,” HBCC Director Coleen Heim said. “But you know as a final result of the pandemic the strain of people losing their careers or the worry of children not being in a position to go to university.”

Especially, a number of assessments and initial hand knowledge from team leaders determined special difficulties that the county’s youth are dealing with, which include social isolation, sedentary existence and bullying. The assistant director at the South Central PA Centre for Independent Residing, Marty Dombrowski, suggests that youngsters want to know what aid is out there for them.

“Knowing who in the neighborhood is offering what useful resource or what assist,” Dombrowski explained. “So that if a youth requires some further assist, they know who to inquire and wherever the family or the individual can flip to get enable.”

The coalition also collaborated with area corporations to combat being overweight and advertise energetic lifestyles by signing up for the Spark In good shape Metropolis Obstacle. The challenge documents the numbers of active minutes that are recorded by a individual or group and compares them from the 92 other cities throughout the state that participated. Blair County concluded fifth, powering only Cleveland, Akron, Pittsburgh and Columbus.

Being overweight was discovered as the next primary situation in 1 residence survey, driving overuse and addiction to social media and cell telephones.