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 January 2, 2022

• Starbucks workers walkout
• Chicago teachers locked out
• MH workers are unionizing
• The global supply chain’s kinks
• Getting your dream job
• Burnout & Sabbaticals
• The IOC’s dilemma: Forced labor in China
• Vax testing mandate hearing
• Wristbands & COVID
• MH resources for employers
• Dashboard: MH in the construction industry
• How to beat decision fatigue
• Opioids / Death / Prison
• Empathy in the New Year
• A shot to fight the opioids crisis?
• Vending machines used to fight the opioids crisis
• Food insecurity & our military
• States debate how to fund 988 (Suicide Prevention Lifeline)
• MH crosses party lines
• Therapists warning about MH in USA
• MH & Sheriff’s team
• MH & First Responders
• MH & 911 calls
• MH & your local library
• MH & Therapist burnout
• How physical issues impact MH
• Can you recognize YOUR mental illness?
• COVID & Children’s MH
• Decreasing suicides via Rap
• MH on college campuses
• Remote learning & Student MH
• Stress & School disruptions
• Stress: Ancient wisdom / Modern life
• Stress & your Heart
• Limiting telehealth
• Keeping your resolutions
• Healthy eating habits
• Help w/ isolation & grief
• Grief & the brain
• Supercharging your brain
• US Rep Raskin’s reckoning
• Jimmy Carter’s fear
• Psychedelic drugs: Promises & Perils
• Cubans & Natural remedies
• A Brown / NFL / CTE
• 10 fitness hacks for 2022
• Breathing exercise
• Healthy eating habits for 2022
• COVID & better relationships
• Webinars:
  • Navigating change (Jan 11 @ 6p CT)
  • QPR Training (Jan 27 @ Noon CT)

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.