Time for a wellness check-in.
Last year we launched our new Behavioral Health & Wellness initiative focused on healing our healers. Our goal is to increase staff wellness and resiliency against the impact of trauma which would also increase their capacity to provide wellness services directly to participants.
We are now past our second year of implementation and have some great progress to report. Since 2021 we,Created an internal Wellness Committee to research and vet therapeutic resources. As a result, we have already held two very successful Wellness Fairs and begun offering wellness activities to staff each month.Certified 40% of the staff in our Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CBI) curriculum and added CBI to two of our programs, fusing coping and trauma resiliency skills with the principles of nonviolence.Learned a lot about what our staff experience on and off the job regarding trauma experience and resiliency. Consequently, we have begun to make changes to policies and added critical support services for staff.Get more details about how we strive to heal our healers, our process, and our progress at nonviolencechicago.org/Healing.
Case Manager, Larrecio Gamble, experiencing Reiki on July 11, 2023.
Reiki was introduced to staff at our first Wellness Fair in October 2022. Now it has become a staff favorite.
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