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TheMontgomery County Fire and Rescue Service began a Joint Health and Wellness Initiative with IAFF Local 1664 in Fiscal Year 02. This program incorporates many of the aspects of the IAFF/IAFC Wellness Fitness Initiative. The focus is on medical, fitness and behavioral health of all fire and rescue personnel.

Battalion Chief Stanton is responsible for the delivery of these programs. Their office is located within the Fire and Rescue Wellness Center. The Center is located at 27 Courthouse Square, Suite 180, Rockville, Maryland 20850.

FROMS is our occupational health services. FROMS is a joint program between MCFRS and the Human Resources Division. FROMS is located at the Wellness Center. The staff at FROMS is led by Dr. Marc Leffer and our Operations Manager is Dionisia (Sia) Giannakoulias who can be reached at 240-777-5185.

Due to weather and other unforeseen circumstances, FROMS will be closed whenever the Montgomery County Government closes. In the event FROMS closes due to an isolated incident (i.e., power outage at FROMS), a notice will be distributed via frs.all.

The MIDS program assists with personnel who are injured or ill for both work and non-work related events. This program works with the Division of Risk Management, FROMS, OHR and CorVel Corporation on all of our work related injuries and illnesses. (Information on MCI can be found at )

On February 14, 2003, FF Chris Sarris succumbed to his battle against colon cancer. Colon cancer has struck our organization not once but three times in the last five years. In order to prevent this from happening again, Chris' dad, Mr. John Aravanis, has started and provided funding for the SCREEN program. A fund within Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service has been established to support this program.

This program in partnership with Shady Grove and Washington Adventist Hospitals, FROMS and IAFF Local 1664, is focused on raising the level of awareness and education regarding colon cancer, Fecal Occult Blood Testing and providing funding assistance to firefighters desiring a colonoscopy not covered by insurance.

After this, the first big rescue came in 2005 in the Varanasi red-light area when Ajeet realised that only education/charity work was not enough to prevent sex-trafficking and child prostitution, and that he must take the structural roots of prostitution head-on. This first rescue was successful in freeing forty-nine women and girls, including minors, from different brothels in the red-light area of Varanasi.

After being rescued, the victim is enrolled temporarily in a shelter home and her medical statement is taken before a magistrate. Ultimately, the child is handed over to her family or enrolled in a shelter home based on the availability of guardians and the consent of the child.

According to a study by Guria, about 94 percent of the missing children belong to lower castes/minority groups, and 53 percent of the families of these missing children had monthly income less than Rs 2,000. They come from the marginalised and vulnerable rural backgrounds with generally hand-to-mouth conditions, and their trafficking is fuelled by their economic and social impoverishment.

Almost negligible action was taken by the police in the matter of attack on human rights defenders. There are 24 reported attacks on the Guria India team, especially on Ajeet. These are just a few among many other challenges during rescue and rehabilitation.

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