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Worker Wellness Weekly December 19
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 December 19, 2021
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.
Worker Wellness Weekly December 12
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 December 12, 2021
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.
Worker Wellness Weekly – December 5
About our Worker Wellness Program (WWP):
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 December 5, 2021
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.
Workers Wellness Weekly November 28
About our Worker Wellness Program (WWP):
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 November 28, 2021
NLRB & Amazon in AL
MLB Lockout
MO teachers leaving
Are teachers asked to be therapists?
Teachers in triage mode
Inflation
College debt w/o High salaries
Older workers & Tech
COVID’s impact on employee training
How employers undermine trust
The new narco-state
MH in A-A communities
Is MH still taboo in the workplace?
Avoiding burnout
Recovering from burnout
Wellness / Social media / Misinformation
Illegal drug trade on Social media
Death & Hazing on college campus
Ketamine: MH threat?
Supervised injection sites
Sacklers abusing the legal process
US Surgeon General on Well-being
How to be more optimistic
Men & Loneliness
MH whispers
Alzheimer’s
Exercise & Brain health
Vets & MH crisis
8 tips for better MH
Schizophrenia & Smoking
IBS
Women’s health (1)
Women’s health (2)
Policing & MH (1)
Policing & MH (2)
Policing & MH (3)
Tiny homes & Homelessness
Cheap land?
Homeless in Seattle
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.
Worker Wellness Weekly November 21
Each week Dr. John Gaal provides us with a Workers’ Wellness Update. This update provides workers, community partners, and more with important articles that he has curated. Below are links to the articles. We hope you enjoy one, a couple, or all of the articles.
About our Worker Wellness Program (WWP):
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 November 21, 2021
How unions lift workers
Cannabis / Unions / MO
Minimum wage hike for federal contractors
Biden / Unions / Green energy
Grocery workers & Customer hostility
J Baker: A cultural icon from STL
Courage / Tennis / China
Debunking the Thanksgiving myth
Italy’s MH system: Taking a turn for the worse?
Dealing w/ pandemic burnout
A post-pandemic you?
Workers: The cost of being unvaxed?
Delay in office re-openings
Congress & NFL
Future of telehealth?
Gratitude & Happiness
Schools & MH days
Holidays & Social anxiety
Misunderstanding mindfulness
Mindfulness & Psychiatric patients
Responsibility / Freedom / MH
Grief after a suicide loss
Addressing grieving parents
Exercise & Appetite
The dark side of resilience
Giving better gifts
Opioids & Pharmacy chains (1)
Opioids & Pharmacy chains (2)
Protecting your brain & Concussion test
Athletes fearing CTE (1)
Athletes fearing CTE (2)
Opium business & Taliban
Plants & New medicines
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.
Worker Wellness Weekly November 14
Each week Dr. John Gaal provides us with a Workers’ Wellness Update. This update provides workers, community partners, and more with important articles that he has curated. Below are links to the articles. We hope you enjoy one, a couple, or all of the articles.
About our Worker Wellness Program (WWP):
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 November 14, 2021
Post-Hoffa era
John Oliver/Union-busting
Nurses’ salaries increasing
Apprenticing towards your wants
PTSD
Vets/PTSD/Depression
PTSD & Trauma
Reconnecting with old friends
Waiting on therapy?
Baby-boomers & therapy
Dopesick: Seeking help
Fentanyl deaths (1)
Fentanyl deaths (2)
OD deaths exceed 100,000
Suicide research
New suicide prevention hotline
On taking MH days
STL high school takes MH days
High school’s peer support program: Suicide
Students want to discuss MH
African-American children & suicide
Children & mourning
Childhood & ACEs
911 / Police / MH
Expanding CBT
Resilience skills
Foods & Moods
Can’t fall asleep?
Stress-reducing Yoga
Caregiver burnout
Boys & eating disorders
Webinars-
Youth & Adult MHFA
Worker Wellness Weekly November 7
About our Worker Wellness Program (WWP):
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 November 7, 2021
STL HC workers strike
STL HC workers/unions/vax
More high-paying jobs requiring COVID vax
Challenges facing School Nurses
Nurses & gratitude
Teachers/MH/fighting burnout
Robots & labor shortage
Boston Unions & DEI
Fathers & paid leave
MO law-makers & MH
Fresh approach to fighting opioids crisis
Rise of synthetic opioids
Opioids in Court (1)
Opioids in Court (2)
Dopesick & Sacklers
DEA & opioids recovery
Opioids & access to recovery
A judge on MH
NFL’s AJ Brown on MH
LA study: Students’ MH
Signs of suicide: Children
Hope Squad: Preventing suicide
Youth/discrimination/MH
OCD or not?
Treating chronic pain
Helping back pain patients
The power of Human Touch
3 mantras to help brighten your workday
Depression & exercise
Coping with S.A.D.
Discomfort & grief
Types of meditation
—Webinars—
Recorded: Live your life well!
Upcoming: Mindfulness
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.
BUD graduate meets then Vice President Joe Biden AND lands a job
As seen in the St. Louis Labor Tribune
Eric Green, a recent graduate of the Building Union Diversity (BUD) program, has all the confirmation he needs that the program works. He’s landed a job and recently met Vice President Joe Biden.
Green, 31, had sold insurance and worked in medical billing since 2009. When he wanted something different, his uncle, a journeyman plasterer told him about BUD and he signed up.
Green graduated from a seven-week BUD session Aug. 31 was meeting with business representatives Todd Hake and Kevin Haynes with the St. Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council at Goody Goody Diner on Natural Bridge Ave. on Sept. 9 when the Vice President and U.S. Senate candidate Jason Kander came in for lunch and stopped to talk at their table.
Biden was in town to talk about jobs, education, and training. He earlier had visited LaunchCode off Delmar to talk about growth in tech jobs.
Hake, the Carpenters business representative, said he told Vice President Biden that they were there meeting with Green for lunch and that he was a recent graduate of the BUD program, and Biden said “Yes, I’m very familiar with the BUD program.”
The vice president then offered some words of encouragement to Green.
BUD organizers visited the White House to discuss the program and its successes during a conference on worker training programs in 2015.
A CONFIRMATION
For Green meeting with union business representatives about job opportunities, then having the opportunity to meet the Vice President – who was familiar with the BUD program – was proof enough that he was headed in the right direction.
“I felt like it was kind of a confirmation,” Green said. “I felt like this was a great opportunity. I had heard that he as a politician that supported us. I felt like this was an opportunity to give it my best, because that’s what he and the President (Barack Obama) have been supporting.
“Just to know that they knew about the BUD program was kind of big to me,” Green said. “It was just telling me to take advantage of this.”
RECORD OF SUCCESS
The BUD program was launched in 2014 to bring more minority and female workers into the union trades in a unique partnership of the St. Louis Building & Construction Trades Council, the Eastern Missouri Laborers District Council and St. Louis-Kansas City Regional Carpenters Council, with funding help from the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment (SLATE) and the Missouri Division of Workforce Development.
Participants in the program also receive support from the United Way to help with issues such as car repairs or other problems that may be preventing them from getting or keeping a job.
BUD prepares participants to enter apprenticeships and, with commitment and dedication of their own, begin fulfilling and rewarding careers. Roughly 85 percent of participants have landed jobs since the program started.
Green was recently hired by Builders Bloc as an apprentice carpenter. The first day was hard, he said. “They worked me, but I came back the next day It’s a great experience. I’m happy I signed up with BUD.”
Worker Wellness News Weekly Update
Each week Dr. John Gaal provides us with a Workers’ Wellness Update. This update provides workers, community partners, and more with important articles that he has curated. Below are links to the articles. We hope you enjoy one, a couple, or all of the articles.
About our Worker Wellness Program (WWP):
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 October 31, 2021
4-hour workweek?
Who benefits from higher pay?
Boston’s unions & DEI
COVID & retirements
Military & suicides
White House’s plan on gun suicides
You & daylight savings time
A case for advanced planning
Will MH benefits continue after COVID?
MH & college kids
High school & MH self-care
Impact of online learning
New Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 9-8-8
SUD & COVID
Impact of fentanyl & meth on US communities
The evolving opioids crisis
Congress & Opioids
Helping Vietnam Vets and then some
Vets / PTSD / MDMA
Does ketamine work for depression?
Depression / Anxiety / Pain
Prolonged grief
Telemedicine / Older adults / Addiction
Medicine vs Wellness?
What your smell says
What your hair says
Weight loss & Tea
Stretching & Energy/Mobility
Detrimental (forced) Mindfulness
Toxic positivity
Brain health
CBT’s Dr. Beck
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.
Workers Wellness Weekly – October 24
Each week Dr. John Gaal provides us with a Workers’ Wellness Update. This update provides workers, community partners, and more with important articles that he has curated. Below are links to the articles. We hope you enjoy one, a couple, or all of the articles.
About our Worker Wellness Program (WWP):
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 October 24, 2021
Speaking with your kids
Teens, gender, and social media
Getting help for teens
Why employees don’t use EAPs for MH
Crisis in construction
Focus on MH in construction
MH crisis: A Deep Dive
Waiting on a therapist?
Leaving MH patients in limbo
MH days and the great resignation
The need for MH support in the workplace
Complicated grief
Living with suicidal thoughts
PTSD’s long reach
Addressing anxiety
Sleep & aging
Self-care habits
Does marijuana help with anxiety & depression?
Opioid epidemic
Tackling OD deaths
Dangers of fentanyl
Pilot: Safe injection sites
The Safe Supply Movement
Dopesick: Follow-up
Knowing the signs of opioid addiction
Pain: CBT vs Opioids?
MH for college admin
Transforming MH therapy
Yoga for beginners
Upcoming webinar: Live your life well
Prison’s impact on families
NFL & safer helmet designs
NHL & sexual abuse
Need for more nurses
The 4-day workweek?
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.