Ms. Steffanie Malkus, projects coordinator and grant administrator of the Eastern Shore Area Health Education Center (ESAHEC), will be the guest speaker at the Noon, April 15 meeting of Talbot Association of Clergy and Laity (TACL) in Easton’s Temple B’nai Israel. Temple is adjacent to the emergency room entrance of Memorial Hospital. The public is invited to this BYO lunch-and-learn meeting.
Ms. Malkus will speak on community and parish nursing., which is of future critical importance to all governmental, public and private entities, and especially religious congregations. Because Talbot County has per capita the largest aging population in Maryland and will continue to grow, it may become among the foremost national models for voluntary person-to-person health support systems. Aging populations and multi-generational families will increase, as volunteer and family care giver numbers will decrease, while the American birth rate continues to slide.
“As congregations define themselves in each generation,” TACL chairman Bishop Joel Marcus Johnson said, “their abilities as compassionate communities must rise to the occasion. How congregations care for their own, and for others in outreach, will largely tell their local communities of their faith in action.”
ESAHEC, a TACL member, is part of the federally mandated AHEC system for medically under-served communities, and is administered through the College of Medicine of The University of Maryland, and in conjunction with The Johns Hopkins College of Medicine. Now in its 17th year, it provides rotation and residency programs for their emerging medical professionals throughout the nine Eastern Shore counties. It also offers numerous education programs.
Ms. Malkus career followed her baccalaureate degree, in speech communications and psychology from The University of Maryland, in public relations and marketing, working with high-tech start-up clients seeking venture capital, and providing technical writing. She also has had entrepreneurial experience in retail marketing.
Bishop Johnson is among the founding trustees of ESAHEC, and is President Emeritus. He has participated in regional and national meetings and panels of the federal AHEC program.
TACL’s mission statement reads, “Talbot Association of Clergy and Laity is an interfaith organization promoting the Spiritual Welfare – Compassion, Justice, Peace, Reconciliation – for the Common Good. We seek to do this through Education, Relationship Building, and our Diverse Ministries.”
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