Photo by Michael Norris The Respect Board is designed to consolidate Army and command programs under one umbrella, with interchangeable photo slots identifying points of contact.

Forty-one large placard signs will be going up across post in the next few weeks in such places as the post commissary, the gym, health clinics, barracks and offices on Fort Myer and Fort McNair. They are designed to let Soldiers, Family members, civilians and retirees know where they can access information on suicide prevention, equal opportunity, domestic violence, substance abuse, post traumatic stress disorder and other programs in the command.

‘‘We were trying to create something that would capture all of these disparate programs that are floating around under one moniker,” said Lt. Col. Cameron Leiker, Headquarters Command Battalion commander.

‘‘Everything that the Army’s trying to do ... it all focuses on the individual and the word respect; respect for yourself and respect for other people,” he said.

‘‘You normally see all these different boards around in units. You’ll have a board for sexual assault, you’ll have a board for substance abuse... And nobody looks at them,” Leiker said. ‘‘The intent [of the new Respect Board] is a one-stop shop. As people come through post — Soldiers and family members, retirees and civilians — they’re going to be able to see these.”

Leiker said he sat down with representatives from Army Community Service’s Family Advocacy division to determine what kind of information they wanted to put out and ACS worked with a contractor to design the signs.

Andrea Verdino, ACS Victim Advocacy Program manager, helped design the Respect Board so it would be visually arresting. ‘‘We wanted a good informational piece,” she said.

She said the board started out focusing primarily on the issues of sexual assault, suicide and family violence, but that as they went along, ‘‘We found that a lot of [issues] intermingled and we expanded it,” to include information about mental health, depression, PTSD and other subjects.

Leiker said the Respect Board lists the civilian and the active-duty military points of contact as well as offering federal, state and local contact numbers and hotlines. ‘‘The bottom line is [providing] an information conduit,” he said. ‘‘The Army has all these different programs ... and we just try to wrap it all up into one cohesive program.”

‘‘The boards don’t have any unit identification,” Leiker continued. ‘‘It’s all Army. It applies to Reserves, National Guard; the whole deal here within the National Capital Region.”

Leiker said the command will be putting up information racks near Respect Board signs so that interested parties can take brochures instead of just copying down the information supplied on the signs.

‘‘Think of this as our method of strategic communications for all of these programs wrapped up under the word respect,” Leiker said. ‘‘We just want to make sure that no one stands alone.”

He pointed to the Respect Board and said, ‘‘Notice it says ‘no one.’ It doesn’t [just] say ‘Soldier,’ ‘Family member,’ or ‘civilian’ because in our feeling, it’s everybody within the family — Reserve, National Guard, [Department of Army] civilians, spouses ...”

Leiker said he hopes to get the Respect Board put up at the Pentagon and other sites within the National Capital Region, as well as posting the information on the installation Web site.

‘‘If you talk to the people who support most of these programs, they don’t care who you are,” Leiker said. ‘‘If you’re going to come they’re going to help. That’s how we all work around here.”