Cultivating Community Wellness with Flo Byarms

Be The Good Media strives to elevate the GOOD—amplifying compassion-driven stories and encouraging the support of people and organizations focused on creating a lasting and positive impact. Christy McCaffrey is the owner, producer, and host of the podcast. She focuses on a theme of compassion, highlighting a diverse group of guests, each working in their own unique way to make a difference in their communities and society. 

Flo Byarms is the director of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine community wellness initiative. Flo works to build and strengthen community relationships by implementing and managing wellness programs and devising new opportunities to develop and enhance community wellness initiatives at PCOM’s three locations.

Flo joins the show to talk about how these programs help support and sustain the physical, mental, nutritional, and environmental wellness of the individuals in the college’s surrounding communities.

Timestamps:
0:48 - Podcast Start
1:02 - About Flo and her journey to PCOM
2:55 - What is the Community Wellness Initiative?
4:13 - How does PCOM bring critical activities to the community?
5:23 How does PCOM help fund and drive research?
6:48 - What is PCOM, and who is involved in it?
8:56 - What is the value for students who get involved?
11:00 - What is the importance of health equity?
14:54 - What is the greatest impact Flo has seen from their Initiative?
18:04 - What’s the importance of building community relationships?
21:50 - What is Flo’s definition of compassion, and how it relates to her work?
28:05 - How can people get involved with CWI and PCOM?

Backlinks:

Website: https://www.pcom.edu/

Email : cwi@pcom.edu

florast@pcom.edu

Instagram: @pcomeducation