MORGANTOWN, W.Va (WDTV) – Wednesday night the Mon County Health Department hosted a town hall in the library of Morgantown High School. This is part of their current mission to give the public more input in how they keep the county healthy and safe.
“So what we hope to do today (Wednesday) is get some of that feedback from the community through the surveys and also the townhall,” said executive director Anthony DeFelice.
“And we started this process in July of 2023 and we completed it in February of this year so we are in the deployment phase and some of the initiative in the strategic plan are community engagement and also to align our services with the needs of the community.”
Throughout the town hall Wednesday the focus was on a number of services Mon County Health offers. But the goal was to see from the public how effective those services currently are.
“We would like the community to ask questions of us and to see what is important to them,” said DeFelice.
“With the community engagement we want to tell the community what we do. And after we do that find out where the gaps are. To know if it is mental health or if it is other services so that is what we’re hoping to determine. We are here to serve the community so we really need to know what their needs are so we can fill those.”
These interactive townhalls will continue Thursday, May. 16 at Clay Battelle High School in Blacksville.
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