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

• Starbucks union in Buffalo
• Kellogg & Striker replacements
• Wages / Low skilled workers / Amazon
• Worker shortages / Pay / Organizing
• Omicron & MH
• The next global pandemic: MH
• Reducing poverty & Improving MH
• US Surgeon General & Youth MH crisis
• Warning: Youth MH crisis
• Report: Youth MH crisis
• MH screening tool
• CO & MH investigation
• Impact of school lockdown drills
• When children’s brain develop too fast
• OD prevention
• Opioids story (1)
• Opioids story (2)
• STL & Fentanyl
• US Civil war & Opioids
• Sacklers update
• Cultivating resilience
• Being your own life coach
• Stretching / Energy / Mobility
• The toll of poor sleep
• More on grief
• Pain & Guilt
• EQ & BS
• Work-Life balance & Returning to the office
• Webinar:
• Herbal Teas

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.