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Worker Wellness Weekly – July 17

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of July 17, 2022

COVID Vax update

911 MH Crisis Teams vs Police?

Crisis planning in CO

Looming recession & MH

Age & Health monitoring

Culture / Kids / Waiting

Overdue honor

Upcoming webinars:

Peer Support is in Demand

Culture & Wellness

Youth Safety in Ag

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

July 24, 2022/by Braxton Payne

Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly – July 10

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of July 10, 2022

Fentanyl / Dealing & Death = Charges

MH shortage & Outdated data

Small town’s approach to opioids crisis

Prison’s impact on minds & bodies

Connecting w/ friends: 1 text matters

Begin your college MH checklist NOW

Do mushrooms help w/ anxiety & depression?

Weight lifting & PTSD

Yoga poses & Stress

Diet + Exercise = Healthier life

Gardening & MH

MH & Nature

Army General & MH

Emotional Intelligence

Chocolate’s health benefits

Impact of the abortion ban

Worker Wellness Weekly – July 3

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of July 3, 2022

MH & Policing the non-violent

When art therapy works?

Isolation v Loneliness

Social intimacy & Your brain

How to recover from workplace stress

School club for loss survivors

Kids / Coping / Trauma

Native Americans / Trauma / Kids (1)

Native Americans / Trauma / Kids (2)

Mass shootings & Evil

PTSD / Loneliness / Childhood trauma

School start time / Sleep / Kids

MH / Summer / Kids

Porn’s impact on the teen brain

Reducing stress w/o alcohol

Is anxiety a disease?

J Kander’s PTSD & Growth

Dementia update

ATLAS: Search for a treatment facility

Greedflation

The real deal in WFD

Another case of CTE

Upcoming webinar:

Emotional Intelligence

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

July 10, 2022/by Braxton Payne

Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly – June 26

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of June 26, 2022

Opioids Crisis & Big Business

When & How to use 988

988 comes to Missouri

Roe v Wade & MH crisis?

Period trackers

Abortion & Higher ed

Resilience in the workplace

Building resilience

Depression & Positive feedback

A conversation starter

TBIs & Prison

The wisdom of trauma

A year later / Surfside / Trauma

CTE & Soccer’s 1^st case?

Time to change soccer’s heading rule?

B Scurry’s concussion battle

Soccer & Title IX

STEM & Gender gap

Union-friendly hotels

Upcoming Webinars:

Sexual health

Wellness

FREE clinics:

Medical services in southern MO

Eye exams for kids in STL

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

July 5, 2022/by Braxton Payne

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Worker Wellness Weekly

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of June 19, 2022

Reducing military suicides

Magic mushrooms & TBIs

MH cost calculator

Substance use cost calculator

Age / Stress / Immunity

Being single & Friendships

Construction / Reward / Noose

Worker retention: 90-day rule

The summer of teachers calling it quits!!!

Upcoming webinars:

Chair yoga

Urban fishing

STL workforce report

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

June 26, 2022/by Braxton Payne

News, Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of June 12, 2022

Helping a loved one / Suicide

Males & Suicide

Worker Wellness Weekly – June 5

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of June 5, 2022

Rise in youth suicides

Need for reforming MH for youth

ERs & Rise in waiting patients

MH days for youth

How parents can help their LGBTQ+ youth

Micro-aggressions & Macro-effects

Surge in opioids OD deaths

Darkside of hot labor market

US-DOL & AGC-Mo partnership

Protecting young athletes

The power of taking a BREAK

Upcoming webinars:

Women & Heat stress

Women & Injury prevention

Understanding dementia

Connecting nature & Well-being

Beyond burnout

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

June 13, 2022/by Braxton Payne

Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly – May 29

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of May 29, 2022

Anxiety: What NOT to say

Embracing anticpation

Texas & MH

Kids/ Fentanyl / Narcan training

Why is Fentanyl so dangerous?

Tribal leaders sound Fentanyl alarm

Supervised injection sites lack funding but save lives

Canada / Opioids/ Decriminalization

Opium / Taliban/ Technology

MO lawmakers playing pharmacists?

Mental illness & Incarceration

State prisons & Addiction programs

School counselors on kids’ MH

School shootings: How to talk to kids

School shootings & Mental Illness

Principals share best practices

Mass shootings & Mental Illness

Mass shooters: Terrorists vs Mentally Ill

Mass shootings & MH

Gun violence & MH

How to protect kids’ MH

Sports & MH

Student advocates & MH

Youth suicides rising

MDMA therapy & Vets

Vets & Trauma

5 tips for building better MH

Grief & Judging

Grief after suicide loss

Fitness & Walking

Gut & Mood

Hope for your stalled sex life?

Travel & COVID

Mesothelioma resource

STL City politics in turmoil

A proud first

A deadly construction project

Upcoming webinar: Wellness Lunch & Learn

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

June 6, 2022/by Braxton Payne

Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly – May 22

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of May 22, 2022

How did Australia address mass shootings?

MH / Biden / Students

Nothing left to say

Confronting a cultural mess

School / Culture / Death

Grief / Respect / Mass shootings

Trauma & Gun violence

MH & Mass shootings’ toll

Moms urging difficult conversations

OUD withdrawal / Challenges

Opioids & Paying doctors

Anxiety & Your gut

Sleep & Hybrid work

How old are you?

Exercise & Improving your mood

Mediation & Your brain?

MH / COIVD funds / STL County

Negotiating the first contract

Gen Z’s future

Why nurses burnout?

Innovative employee wellness

Assessing worker well-being

Disabilities & War

Trafficking farmworkers

Monkeypox

Battling stereotypes

Is work your religion?

Upcoming webinar: Recovery Friendly Workplaces

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

May 31, 2022/by Braxton Payne

Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly – May 15

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of May 15, 2022

COVID’s next wave

COVID deaths near 1m

Colleges / COVID relief funds / MH

Practicing mindfulness

Stress & Illness

Tracking health data & Wearables

How big pharma fails us

Mushrooms / Depression / Brain

AFSP & Most Days App

Vets / Stress / Ag

MH & Ag

Fentanyl tainted pills

MO Opioids dashboard

Bosnian Opioid Prevention

Video games & your kids

Social media & your kids

Hybrid work / Productivity / MH

What is a MH expert?

Finding affordable therapy

MH & Affordable options

Getting rid of mold

Women’s soccer scores

Ford’s case for higher wages

HUGE pay disparity in the college ranks

Airlines cutting training…How is this safe?

Reclaiming the history of a plantation

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

May 25, 2022/by Braxton Payne

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