Past Events

Blood Pressure

  • Men’s Shelter, Rockville (twice)
  • Progress Place, Silver Spring
  • Community Center, Burtonsville

Cholesterol

  • Community Center, Burtonsville

Diabetes

  • Viers Mill Apartments, Rockville (Amharic)
  • Progress Place, Silver Spring
  • Men’s Shelter, Rockville

Heart Disease and Stroke

  • Progress Place, Silver Spring (twice)
  • Men’s Shelter, Rockville (twice)
  • Lakeview Apartments/WISH, Bethesda
  • Churchill Senior Living/WISH, Germantown
  • Andrew Kim House, Olney

Opioids

  • Viers Mill Apartments, Rockville (Amharic)
  • Men’s Shelter, Rockville

Exercise

Young Stroke Group, Rockville (twice)

Housing Opportunities Commission

Four CDC presentations completed (9/25/17-10/4/17)

Muslim Community Center

Stroke (10/14/17) – Presented by Aifaz Abbasi

Young Stroke Group

  • Healthy Eating (10/6/17) – Presented by Yeshi Mengistu
  • Substance Abuse and stroke (10/20/17) – Presented by Nikita Guest
  • Physical Actvity and Stroke (5/18/18) – Presented by Nikita Guest
  • Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless presented by Yeshi Mengistu with Young Stroke Group participants
  • Staying Active in the Winter (1/22/18)
  • Blood Pressure (1/29/18)
  • Diabetes (2/5/18)
  • Walking (2/12/18)
  • Cholesterol (2/19/18)
  • Improve Your Mood (2/26/18)
  • Obesity (3/5/18)

Montgomery County Correctional Facility

  • Improve Your Mood (3/13/18) – Presented by Yeshi Mengistu, Susan Emery
  • An Ounce of Prevention (5/1/18) – Presented by Susan Emery and Yeshi Mengistu
  • Blood Pressure (5/22/18) – Presented by Yeshi Mengistu and Nikita Guest
  • Food Choices (5/29/18) – Presented by Susan Emery and Nikita Guest
  • Diabetes (6/5/18) – Presented by Yeshi Mengistu and Nikita Guest
  • Physical Activity (6/12/18) – Presented by Nikita Guest and Susan Emery
  • Heart Disease and Stroke (6/19/18) – Presented by Yeshi Mengistu and Susan Emery
  • Drug Addiction and Overdose Prevention (6/26/18) – Presented by Nikita Guest and Susan Emery

Health Fairs

  • Long Branch Community Center (10/15/18) – Nicole Bell and Alba Cordova
  • Homeless Health Fair (11/16/17) – Yeshi Mengistu
  • Fit Fest @ Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex (5/19/18) – Joyce Sampson and Nikita Guest