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Wellness & Well-being Highlights March 19

Work life balance

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of March 19, 2023

 

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from the mental health of workers and students to Moms seeking work-life balance to how to grieve in a healthy manner. Today, I wish to shed some light on how apprenticeships are now being viewed by high school students as legitimate alternatives to the “college-for-all” mantra the US has hitched its wagon to for the past 30+ years. Having served on the US Secretary of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship (ACA) from 2003-2010, I can attest that the seeds we planted 20 years ago are finally bearing fruit. If one reviews the details of the student debt issue, you will soon find that a good portion of this debt is from community college students…most of which never earned an Associate’s degree. While college may not be for all at the age of 18, I for one, do believe that most workers “eventually” gain much needed leadership skills by attending college once they hone in on their career choice. This is why I have advocated for emulating the European model of apprenticeships since 2004 (Google: Bayless Floor Layers Middle Apprenticeship Program). Wherein, the focus is on apprenticeships at the secondary level of education. Thus, graduating high school students with job-ready skill sets! In closing, I suspect with the rise of STEM at the secondary and post-secondary levels, it has become less bitter (and less costly) for many parents to accept the importance of hands-on education which, in turn, helps temper the age-old stigma of vocational education.

 

Sources: https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-students-are-turning-away-from-college-and-toward-apprenticeships-15f3a05d

https://www.wsj.com/articles/student-loan-bills-are-set-to-come-due-adding-pressure-on-younger-americans-1738b6e0

 

US-DOL seeks input on workers’ MH

 

Young women & MH

 

Students & MH

 

Trials of being young

 

MH guide for college students & families

 

Period products in MO schools

 

US maternal mortality rate

 

Toxic workplace culture: Men v Women

 

Canadian moms & Work-Life balance

 

Millennials & Unkept promises

 

COVID & What worked?

 

Meth forces new protocols for CO libraries

 

New CDC opioids guidelines / Too little, too late?

 

On solving our opioids crisis

 

Testing for fentanyl?

 

Opioids in the construction industry (14:38 min mark)

 

Finns / Death / Drug abuse

 

Marriage & Technology

 

Marriage / Long term health / Happiness

 

Women / Sex / Cancer

 

How to meditate?

 

On meditating before sleep

 

Embracing the “dark side”

 

A good death?

 

Healthy grieving

 

Feeling alive…again

 

On chiros & neck manipulation

 

Never getting together?

 

Meetings: In-person v Tech

 

Student debt & Added pressure

 

Apprenticeship v College

 

Promoting Canada’s skilled trades education

 

Local community colleges expand mfg curriculum

 

Fixing child care: A work-around

 

The anti-Girl Scout cookie

 

Build housing = Attract workers?

 

What’s your next career?

 

Why trust science?

March 20, 2023/by Braxton Payne
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