Training Overview
“Staff Wellness” is the new trendy talking point in the correctional world. Jail Administrators and Executives from all over the country are assembling leadership teams and think tanks, organizing Zoom calls, and attending retreats and training sessions, all in an attempt to address the wellness of their staff.
The problem is that addressing the wellness of staff is not an easy task to tackle as the correctional culture does not allow for such things to flourish. But we’re at a breaking point. We’ve reached critical mass. We can no longer afford to ignore the effects that the correctional environment has on those who are exposed to it. Our traditional ways of doing business are neither productive nor sustainable. We must adapt if we want to adopt an approach that adequately and appropriately addresses the needs of our staff.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss five potential challenges to starting and sustaining a successful Staff Wellness program and how an agency can navigate those challenges to create an emotionally supportive and psychologically safe environment for staff.
Learning Objectives
- Gain a better understanding of what staff may be experiencing and why listening to their perspective is important to the success of a wellness program.
- Learn the importance of placing the right people in the right positions and what that process looks like in their agency.
- Be able to describe ways that their agency can ensure that there is consistency and follow-through related to their wellness program.
- Identify personal beliefs and internal obstacles that may hinder their want to establish a wellness program.
- Learn about the “culture of toughness” in corrections and how the overtone of their facility could prevent the implementation of a successful wellness program.
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