September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and as part of a campaign to educate people about the condition, the Rory Staunton Foundation held its second annual National Forum in Washington, D.C., Sept. 16. 

Randi Weingarten, who took part in the event, let the crowd know that the AFT—which co-sponsored the forum— is working to build awareness of sepsis. "We have to make sure that there is more awareness in every place where we are—whether it's in prekindergarten-12 education or in states where we represent the majority of RNs who are organized. We have to raise the issue, and we have to talk about it."

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1. Select a Primary Care Physician (PCP)
2. Complete the health risk assessment; and
3. Review the results of the health risk assessment with their PCP.

For those individuals not completing the activities by December, the $50 surcharge will be delayed until April.  Details will be available on the DBM website and the medical carriers' websites.

Those deadlines are as follows:

The 9/30/15 deadline for Wellness

Continuing with AFT efforts to promote democracy and add more voices to the political process locally and nationally, AFT-Maryland Political Coordinator Todd Reynolds led a voter registration drive Sunday August 16th at Macedonia Baptist Church in Baltimore, Md. The drive was but a small example of the "Reclaim Baltimore" initiative introduced at the 2015 AFT-Maryland Convention.

The initiative focused on revitalizing the city in the wake of the unrest after the Freddie Gray death. One aspect was to increase citizen participation in the political process. With a Presidential, Senate, Mayoral &

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In the 2015 Maryland Legislative Session, a bill was introduced to allow Police to carry guns in schools. The legislation didn't make it out of committee, but we anticipate that similar legislation will be introduced again next session and that this will be a major topic of discussion at these Community Conversations this month.

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