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Integrating Staff Wellness into Agency Culture: A Win, Win, Win
According to Officevibe.com, 78 percent of Americans describe their jobs as stressful. In discussing this with colleagues, the feeling was that this figure was a bit high. However, as we moved on to discuss an informal contest of who had the most webinars to watch for the week, it was quickly...
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Workplace Success for Individuals with Autism and Sensory Issues: The Critical Role of Wellness and Strategies for Success
What factors are most important to an individual’s success in the workplace? If this question was posed to a group of people, one might expect a range of answers including experience, education, work ethic, people skills, and the ability to problem solve. However, in working with young adults...
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Tips for a Successful Employee Wellness Program
At Springbrook, over 1,200 employees work hard each day to deliver compassionate care and support to people of all ages with developmental disabilities from across the state of New York. Our work is centered on maintaining the healthiest, safest, most inclusive environments for the people we...
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Employee Wellness: Meeting the Challenge of the Workplace
Today’s behavioral health agencies are under more pressure than ever to measure and improve outcomes, reduce costs, adapt to changing market and regulatory conditions. As a result of these sometimes competing pressures, burnout and compassion fatigue are ever present concerns in today’s...
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Health Education Class in the Workplace
As a native New Yorker, playing co-ed softball in Central Park is simply a rite of passage. A few years ago as I was preparing to bat, a small boy ran up to me very intrigued by what we were doing. But like any child, he was full of questions. His first question was, “Why are boys playing...
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Peer Leadership and Workforce Development
The future is here. 2014 is the year of the peer. In economics, the cycle of poverty is the “set of factors or events by which poverty, once started, is likely to continue unless there is outside intervention.” (Wikipedia, 2014) People with mental health, substance abuse and physical health...
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AHRC New York City Launches New Initiative to Better Serve the Community
Individuals on the autism spectrum have always received services from AHRC New York City (www.ahrcnyc.org) although many did not formally receive this diagnosis years ago. This group of individuals is without question exponentially increasing with referrals from families in great need of assistance...
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The Economy’s Impact on Vocational Services
Traditionally, behavioral health patients have been referred for vocational counseling because their illness has formed a barrier to obtaining and maintaining employment. Patients may have presented with ambivalence about entering the work force, or fears that their treatment may interfere with the...
