ELLY GRIMM • Leader & Times
The Liberal Area Coalition for Families (LACF) is always looking for ways to help the Liberal community, and a current activity will help with that goal.
The LACF currently has a survey live online for people to take so the coalition can gain ideas of how to better serve the community’s needs.
“This survey is through our Blue Cross Blue Shield Pathways grant and this is the third year we've done this survey, and it's to get a measure of some health things in Liberal and gaining some ideas of what our priorities in Liberal should be as far as helping people's health,” LACF Director Sarah Foreman said. “We use this survey as a guide as far as what we should be focusing on with those things as we plan out the work we want to do throughout the community. We actually launched this year's survey in February and it'll be live until April 17. We like this survey because it really is a great guide for us as far as how we can help the community's health needs.”
The survey is available in English at the Web site https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6RMLH3V, and is also available in Spanish at the Web site https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6TRG3H3.
“One of the major things we want to know is the overall health of the community and see what level we're at with that,” Foreman said. “Then from there we look for certain things we can focus on to improve those numbers, whether it's something to help people quit smoking or something to get people outside and moving more. And especially now is a great time for a survey like this because since there are so many agencies closing their doors temporarily, we want to know how we can help fill those gaps and help the community. We use the data from the surveys to figure out how we can do that, and it's a great resource for us.”