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Wellness & Well-being Highlights May 21

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of May 21, 2023

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from the use of vending machines for Narcan to how “optional” perks from the past are now becoming “essential” for addressing employees’ MH to how recent inflationary pressures are impacting prison inmates. Today, I wish to shed some light on the issue of opening our borders so that qualified foreign workers can obtain gainful employment while filling areas where workforce shortages exist and are persistent. A number of developed countries (including Canada, Japan, and Germany…our allies) have recently tweaked their immigration policies in response to their aging populations (wherein birth rates have severely decreased over the past 3-4 decades). The USA is facing a similar situation but continues to resist a systemic approach to this dilemma. As a baby-boomer, sooner rather than later, I am concerned that not addressing this matter in a holistic manner will result in a lesser quality-of-life for not just me but our nation as a whole. In closing, let’s try to learn lessons from BJC’s foray into attracting nurses from abroad and expand this concept to other sectors of our economy…while trying NOT to kill the goose laying those golden eggs!

 

Sources: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-worlds-biggest-economies-cautiously-open-their-doors-to-more-foreign-workers-664c3549

https://www.ksdk.com/video/news/health/faced-with-nursing-shortage-this-st-louis-hospital-is-looking-for-workers-abroad/63-3fe14f9e-ce87-4084-9835-ff936f8e0cde

 

MAY is Mental Health Awareness Month

 

Update: Overdose deaths (1)

 

Update: Overdose deaths (2)

 

Campaign to expand the MH workforce

 

Narcan vending machines

 

A new “War on Drugs”?

 

Police / Fentanyl / Risks

 

Teens / Drugs / Guns

 

On taking a MH day

 

Benefits of supporting others at work: Men v Women

 

MH in the workplace: Options v Essential

 

Warning: Processed meats

 

Schools & Diabetes

 

Tik Tok / Teens / Darkness

 

Dealing w/ Long COVID

 

More on Loneliness

 

Remaining sharp in Retirement

 

MLK: The Christian Radical

 

Scabby the Rat

 

UPMC v Union Nurses

 

Update: Writers’ strike

 

The meaning of “picket”

 

Rage-applying & Employee Well-being

 

Women & Burnout

 

On landing white-collar job

 

The disappearing white-collar job

 

Is a college degree worth it?

 

Funemployment

 

College students’ migration

 

China & College grads

 

Opening doors to foreign workers

 

STL hospitals / Nurses / International recruiting

 

Biden / Diploma divide

 

US students flunk civics

 

Workforce Development & Fraud?

 

How to ID workplace bullies

 

Terrible tips / Happiness

 

Inflation in prisons

 

Poverty in the US: Why?

 

Adults & Community Colleges

 

India / Women / Construction

 

AI’s impact on the workplace

 

When wives out-earn husbands…

 

US Military & Sexual Slavery

 

Upcoming webinars, etc.:

Recovery Friendly Workplaces

 

Building personal resilience

 

Mindful Teen Meditation

 

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 22, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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