JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, VA. –
Civilian employee representatives 11 installations attended the Army’s Community Health Promotion Council’s health promotion workshop at U.S. Training and Doctrine Command headquarters at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Feb. 28 through March 2, 2017.
Participants were trained on the management capability of the CHPC process at the installation level. The participants are in line to assume the Community Ready and Resilient Integrator role for their senior commanders as contracted Health Promotion Officer positions end on March 31. The C2RIs will be responsible for the management of the CHPC process at each installation.
The CHPC process is designed to help senior commanders accomplish this mission through targeted health and resiliency activities to enhance and support enduring personal readiness throughout the total Army.
The Army Public Health Center, a directorate of the Army Medical Command conducted the workshop while the Army Installation Management Command provided the civilian personnel to assume the CR2I duties and responsibilities.
“The CHPC provides senior commanders integration and synchronization of installation health and resilience resources to enhance individual performance and increase overall unit readiness across the Army,” said U.S. Army Col. Gary Wheeler, command surgeon for U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, during his address to the CR2I’s. “It was amazing bringing together 11 out of 12 CR2Is from TRADOC installations for the common goal to educate them in the management capabilities of the CHPC process."
He went on to say that the council provides a health promotion governance system that allows commanders at all levels to continuously improve policies, protocols, and procedures based on a holistic approach to risk management.
The installations represented included Fort Benning, Ga.; Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va.; Fort Gordon, Ga.; Fort Huachuca, Ariz.; Fort Jackson, S.C.; Fort Knox, Ky.; Fort Lee, Va.; Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; Rucker, Ala.; Fort Sill, Okla.; and the Presidio of Monterey, Calif.
Col. Elmer Speights, IMCOM training deputy chief, thanked the individuals for attending the workshop and stressed the importance of their future role.
“The role of the CR2I is a high priority for TRADOC senior leaders and we, at IMCOM, will ensure you have everything you need to take on this additional duty,” said Speights. "The collaboration efforts between TRADOC and IMCOM help reduce the gap between the contracted installation HPOs and IMCOM CR2Is."
He also thanked APHC for partnering with them to provide the HPO capability to the garrison civilians that attended the workshop.
With the Department of the Army release of the Enduring Personal Readiness order this past December, the Army directed senior commanders at all installations to maintain relevant R2 policies, and to align resources and capabilities to requirements to effectively govern the CHPC process.
The EPR order emphasizes the intent to provide an evidence-based management process that integrates and synchronizes R2 capabilities at all echelons, remains adaptive to the environment and efficiently matches resources to requirements.