Worker Wellness & Managing Stress
University of California-San Francisco has a Resilience and Emotional Well-Being Video Series, including Self-Compassion for Stress Reduction and How to Prioritize Your Own Well-Being for Health Care Workers - though many of these strategies can be applied to other professions!
Key Ingredients for Building Trust While Working Remotely from The Engine Room covers strategies for building trusting relationships with colleagues in the virtual environment.
Self-Love in the Time of Coronavirus from Colorlines includes nine tips for managing stressors.
The National Institute of Mental Health has great shareable infographics on coping during COVID-19 in both English and Spanish.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has a comprehensive list of Resilience Resources for Emergency Response, including Managing Stress During a Crisis - A Guide for Supervisors.
Checking In to Prevent Checking Out from the Center for Story-Based Strategies includes ways to keep space open for our whole selves to show up at work.
The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress created a two-page PDF with tips and strategies for Grief Leadership During COVID-19.
The Schwartz Center offers an archive of their free Compassion in Action webinars, which include topics such as Managing Traumatic Stress: Evidence-Based Guidance for Organizational Leaders and Caring for Yourself & Others During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Managing Healthcare Workers' Stress. Each webinar also includes links to free handouts.
Thank you all so much for participating in the first annual Resilience Week Virginia! It was such a wonderful week of activities and events centered around understanding trauma and building resilience, all which brought networks and individuals across the state closer together.
Voices for Virginia's Children and Greater Richmond SCAN spotlighted different TICNs all week, and you can view links to these stories on the Resilience Week website News page. Be sure to check out Friday's posts on the Southside Trauma-Informed Community Network and the Greater Richmond TICN!
You can also continue to access the Resilience Week website for resources and videos from the week. Although the official week has ended for this year, hopefully it helped inspire a daily practice of resilience that will carry you through the weeks to come.
Mental Health America of Virginia's Warm Line is a peer-run service for individuals, family members, and other concerned parties in Virginia who would like someone to talk to, or who request community mental health resources, or who have specific questions about their recovery journey. The peers who answer the Warm Line listen with compassion and provide non-judgmental support. Call 1-866-400-6428, Mon-Fri 9am-9pm and Sat-Sun 5pm-9pm.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline provides 24/7 support for survivors and their loved ones. Call 1-800-799-7233, use the website's live chat function, or text LOVEIS to 22522. They also provide services for those who are deaf and hard of hearing.
SAMHSA (the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) offers a Disaster Distress Helpline for immediate crisis counseling for people who are experiencing emotional distress related to any natural or human-caused disaster. For services in both English and Spanish, call 1-800-985-5990. To connect with a trained crisis counselor, text TalkWithUs (for English) or Hablanos (for Spanish) to 66746.
For questions and support, contact:
Melissa McGinn, MSW, LCSW
State Trauma Informed Community Networks Coordinator
mmcginn@grscan.com
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