#1364

Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:52:41 -0600
From: Michael Pejsach <healthedman@HOME.COM>
Subject: Fun stuff


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I have five siblings, three sisters and two brothers. One night I was
chatting with my Mom about how she had changed as a mother from the first
child to the last. She told me she had mellowed a lot over the years:


"When your oldest sister coughed or sneezed, I called the ambulance. When
your youngest brother swallowed a dime, I just told him it was coming out
of his allowance."*



Michael





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Michael Pejsach, Ed.D., CHES
(504) 443-4958- voice/fax




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#1365

Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:32:03 -0500
From: Daniel Leviton <DL16@UMAIL.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Remember the veterans


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This is addressed to directors of Adult Health & Development Programs
(AHDP), and part of the National Network for Intergenerational Health
(NNIH), those who have made inquiries about developing an AHDP. The
AHDP/NNIH is a 29 year old service-learning, intergenerational, health
promotion program. See www.inform.umd.edu/AHDP.


Folks as you wind down for the fall and prepare your AHDP for the spring
semester, keep in mind the urgency to include disabled military veterans
as members. I know that it is difficult recruiting them from VA
facilities but there are other resources such as the community (place an
announcement in your local paper -- it will probably cost you nothing),
make presentations at service organizations such as DAV, Vets of Foreign
Wars, American Legion, and others such as Elks, Moose, etc. Also in
dealing with a VA Nursing Home Facility I have found that the Rec
Therapist is the person most likely to be helpful.


Once you have made contact with a VA facility, and you need an extra
push let me know. We have contacts with the DAV and VA Headquarters who
may be helpful.


All grants that we earn in the future will continue and emphasize, as a
criterion of involvement, that sites involve disabled vets or have a
valid reason why they have not.


The reasons that I am pushy about this include: (1) the vets can really
benefit from your program -- and deserve the best quality of health and
well being in their remaining years, (2) considering that, it is the
"right" thing to do, and (3) I feel badly that the NNIH has not measured
up to our obligations to the DAV Charitable Trust that funded your
training one way or another.


Here at UMCP we have been serving vets since 1975. Even when their
facility was 60 miles away at Perry Point, MD. Then they fought to come
to the AHDP -- just as they do today when they come from Washington.


Over the years we have found that our very best leadership came from
those staffers who first worked with the vets group. And that those
staffers remain the most loyal advocates for the Program.


To broaden the focus: There are obvious gains in serving members from
the Community. However, involvement of diverse groups such as the Vets,
Foreign-born, and Developmentally Challenged add so much to any AHDP
with special reference to the experience of your students, volunteers,
and members in general.


I wish you the very best holiday season given the givens.


Dan


--
Dr. Daniel Leviton
Director, The Adult Health & Development Program
Professor, Dept. Public & Community Health
College of Health & Human Performance
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-2611
Phone: (301) 405-2528; Fax: (301) 445-1546


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