Workforce Wellness

7 Ways for Leaders to Spark Happiness at Work — in Ourselves and Our Team

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From Harmony Major, CRP, CHHC, Natural Wellness and Stress Release Strategist for 30-plus professionals; Owner, Energetic Harmony At minimum, a full 50% of our waking hours are spent on this thing we call “work.” These numbers climb much higher for entrepreneurs, CEOs, business leaders, and heads of single-income households. And 7 Ways for Leaders to Spark Happiness at Work — in Ourselves and Our Team

Walking the Walk: How Organizational Climate and Culture Unite Words With Actions

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From Dalia Avello, Psy.M., MA, IMH-E, Professor of Practice, Trauma Informed Oregon What Do English Idioms, Organizational Culture and Trauma Informed Care Have in Common? I take delight in nuances – those subtle details that make something unique. As a bilingual and bicultural person, one of my favorite things to do Walking the Walk: How Organizational Climate and Culture Unite Words With Actions

Moving Workforce Wellness into Organizational Culture

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From Christy da Rosa, MSW, LICSW, Research Assistant, Trauma Informed Oregon A Tale of Burnout: My Case Study When I was in my MSW program, one of my assignments was to make a self-care plan to use during our field practicum. It seemed like a filler assignment to me, but Moving Workforce Wellness into Organizational Culture

Opening 2023 with a Focus on Climate and Culture, an Essential Element of Trauma Informed Care

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From Mandy Davis, LCSW, PhD, Director, Trauma Informed Oregon It is 2023 and I hope this year provides the right amount of reflection, laugher, silence, connection, and joy as needed. I am focusing this newsletter on the Essential Element of Climate and Culture. When we envisioned the Four Essential Elements, Opening 2023 with a Focus on Climate and Culture, an Essential Element of Trauma Informed Care

The TRUE Model: A Starting Point for Building a Trauma Informed Organizational Workplace Culture

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From LaFreda Ceasar, MSW, Vice President of Equity and Culture Talent, New Narrative Many organizations and corporations are considering returning their employees to the workplace post-pandemic. Some have decided to keep their employees remote indefinitely. Either way, people in the workforce are navigating the workplace under very different circumstances; whether The TRUE Model: A Starting Point for Building a Trauma Informed Organizational Workplace Culture

The Importance of Imagination – Active Optimism and Resilience

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From Christy da Rosa, MSW, LICSW, Research Assistant, Trauma Informed Oregon Burnout in Activism I recently had a conversation with a childhood friend about climate change: how climate disasters are increasing in severity and frequency across the world, and the immense toll it has had on her. She told me, The Importance of Imagination – Active Optimism and Resilience

Building a Sustainable Workforce

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From Lisa Ladendorff, LCSW, Director of Development and Training, Northeast Oregon Network; Connie Sherrard, MSW, Training Program Manager, Northeast Oregon Network; and Kinda Cable, Training Program Project Manager, Northeast Oregon Network Historically, western societies have viewed natural resources as something endlessly available, to be used for our benefit, with little Building a Sustainable Workforce

A Funny Thing Happened… Climate and Resilience

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From Mandy Davis, LCSW, PhD, Director, Trauma Informed Oregon A funny thing happened on the way to writing this blog. The theme this quarter was to be Climate and Culture, one of the Four Essential Elements that focuses on how organizations build a climate and culture that embodies trauma informed A Funny Thing Happened… Climate and Resilience

Our Climate Crisis and the Unbearable Interconnectedness of Issues

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From Danielle Grondin, Instructional Designer, Trauma Informed Oregon When I sit down and try to synthesize my feelings about our climate crisis, I also hold the heartbreak of the multitude of issues that are tangled in this topic. A sense of overwhelm rises to the forefront. With so many entry Our Climate Crisis and the Unbearable Interconnectedness of Issues

The Pandemic Exposes Serious Risks and Challenges for Melanated Nurses and Allied Healthcare Workers

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From Steffanie Roache, MS, LPC The coronavirus continues to have a devastating impact on the health of many Oregonians, but especially for communities of color, who are 30 times more likely to experience the most serious risk from exposure to the virus [1]. These same communities are already reeling from The Pandemic Exposes Serious Risks and Challenges for Melanated Nurses and Allied Healthcare Workers