Worker Wellness Weekly – January 16

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 16, 2022

• The Green Monster
• Purdue Pharma (1)
• Purdue Pharma (2)
• War on drugs (1)
• War on drugs (2)
• Meth & Homelessness
• Great resignation / Welfare / Men without work
• MH in the workplace
• Hybrid work is exhausting
• Blue Mondays & Productivity
• Time for change?
• Healing ceremonies
• Lack of care after suicide attempts
• Can anxiety benefit you?
• Exercise & Anxiety
• Moms group releases tension
• Hospitals borrowing Military tactics
• Anticipatory Grief
• Pleasant, engaged, and meaningful
• Normalizing MH days
• STL County Police & Public Wellness
• COVID’s toll on health & wealth
• Patron saint of MH?
• Dorothy Day: A saint?
• Renaming mental illness & Stigma
• Thru the eyes of an 11-year-old
• Children & COVID
• Parents and lingering pain of online school
• Sex advice from the elderly
• Student loans (1)
• Student loans (2)
• Terminal disease and one’s future
• Dementia and youth
• Supporting workers after a brain injury
• Canadian researchers & Concussion testing
• Former football star & MH
• SLU OT program helps the Homeless
• Ice & Snow Safety
• How baby’s scent impacts women vs men
• Battle for power
• Union membership dips (1)
• Union membership dips (2)
• Respectful negotiations
• King Soopers strike ends
• The Workers’ Moment?
• Parents step in
• Youth step up
• Teens driving big rigs?
• Wealth gap (1)
• Wealth gap (2)
• Long overdue recognition
• Small towns loving Amazon?
• The age-old value of water

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.