Armed Forces Wellness Center

A great shoutout! Thank you for all your support, Rob Wilkins.

We are very excited about our partnership with the VA National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (NCP). This is an exciting step in a collaborative effort to enhance patient care, advance evidence-based care into practice, and improve the patient experience. The TEACH for Success and Motivational Interviewing training levels up our Health Educators ability to facilitate health coaching in a shared-decision making process that will improve lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes. Our goal is to grow this partnership and evolve the shared mission of health care! Michael Jarka, Megan Amadeo, M.S. ACSM EP-C, TSAC-F, Brandon L. Taylor, Sean Friendly, Courtney Kagarise, Michael (Mike) Odle

Thank you for the support U.S. Army Directorate of Prevention, Resilience and Readiness 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Our program manager, Michael Jarka, would like to announce that a new Warrior Restaurant, “America’s Kitchen” opened on June 12 at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, VA and includes our first-ever Armed Forces Wellness Center satellite site inside a dining facility. In an effort led by Noelle Austin-Jones, MS, NASM-CPT and Nicole Leth, MPH, CHES, NSCA-CPT, both our Fort Meade and Fort Belvoir teams will commute weekly to ensure that service members have access to the same services as our nearby locations. This effort will increase local wellness and health coaching, aiming to assist our clientele towards their fitness and health related goals, with an emphasis in reducing the burden of commuting to other sites and taking away from their day-to-day functions. We would like to thank both SMA Retired Michael Grinston, and CSM Jimmy Sellers on their support in this process! If you are in the area, give us a call and hop on the schedule for some quality education! https://lnkd.in/eSHK4XXa

Join us at the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, in Boston where the AFWC Program Manager Dr. Michael Jarka and one of our Project Officers, Megan Amadeo, M.S. ACSM EP-C, TSAC-F will be presenting on “Addressing a National Security Crisis” and focusing the discussions on how the Armed Forces Wellness Centers assist not only Service Members, but their families, DOD/DHA civilians, and retirees as well in improving their health and performance. Presentation Date: May 29th 0930-1020 Session B-02 Hynes CC-202. Let us know if you will be in attendance below! #1AFWC #healthpromotion #exerciseismedicine #exercisephysiology #ACSM #healthandperformance #nationalsecurity #healthcoaching

This upcoming Thursday and Friday, one of our Project Officers, Mark Jones M.S., ACSM-EP, TSAC-F, will be taking some time off while he is presenting at the Georgia Southern University Tactical Athlete: Peer Fitness Leader Summit. On May 2nd at 12:45 he will be presenting on "A Physique Science Approach to Tactical Athletes Weight Management". Then again on May 3rd between 13:15-15:15 for three rotations on "Optimizing Tactical Athletes Recovery". 👇 Comment below if you plan on being in attendance! 👇

The AFWC in Fort Liberty, NC has one position open for a GS-0640-07 Health Promotion Technician. Salary: $51,157 - $66,505 per year. Location: Fort Liberty, NC Remote Job: NO. Telework: NO. Relocation: No If you know anyone that may want to apply, send this their way. https://lnkd.in/ewjMeDxE

National Nutrition Month Recap! 🥑🍅🍊 Our AFWCs coordinated and hosted over 60 nutrition focused events directly impacting 1,400 Service Members, Family Members, Civilians, and Retirees! 🌟 We thank all of our partners who helped make these events a success! A special shout out to the 92Gs at the Warrior Restaurants. The AFWCs held 10 events this month focusing on the nutrition and health literacy for our Warrior Restirant ambassadors. #AFWCNNM Improving health and building readiness…Anytime, Anywhere - Always! Michael Jarka Kelvin Windham Mark Jones M.S., ACSM-EP, TSAC-F Joanna Ward-BrownRandi Rogerson Defense Health Agency Megan Amadeo, M.S. ACSM EP-C, TSAC-F

In exactly one week, March 23rd, one of our Project Officers, Mark Jones M.S., ACSM-EP, TSAC-F, will be speaking at the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) #MissouriStateClinic. In honor of #NationalNutritionMonth, Mark will pe speaking on an approach that is often not talked about within the Tactical Space, focusing on "A Physique Science Approach to Tactical Athletes Weight Management". Here he will be focusing on an approach to maintaining a steady caloric balance, while manipulating macronutrients to assist with body fat reduction. If you are in the Saint Louis, MO area and want to have a listen, come out to the 1st Phorm International HQ in Fenton, MO.

This week the US Army TRADOC #Commanders #ReadyandResilientCouncil (#CR2C) selected Randi Rogerson as a R2 Guardian for the Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE). Over the last two years, Randi has chaired the Fort Gregg-Adams #Physical #Resilience #WorkingGroup, leading efforts in injury prevention, early injury identification, and enhanced nutrition education through developing food security resource listings in partnership with Army Community Services and the local Commissary. She has also partnered with the Holistic Health & Fitness Program and Ready & Resilient Program Coordinator to deliver holistic fitness programs and rehabilitative physical therapy on #FortGreggAdams, while also serving as an integral part of the Fort Gregg-Adams #CadreResilienceProgram by providing tailored education for the cadre population. Excellent work Randi! #exerciseismedicine #healthcoach #wellnesscoach #exercisephysiology #nutritioneducation #nationalnutritionmonth