Unorthodox Wellness
This type of self-care is based on the idea that people become sick because they need to balance the electrical charges in their bodies, and relies on connection to nature for healing.
What is Earthing / Grounding?
This suicide prevention training, developed by LivingWorks Education Inc., is being rolled out across the province to all correctional employees.
What is safeTALK?
This branch drives initiatives that support the health and wellbeing of both people in custody, as well as correctional employees.
What is Health Service Supports and Employee Wellness Branch (HSSEW)?
This CEWU team member has travelled to # countries and has enjoyed diverse culinary treats in her travels, including spiders and scorpions.
Who is Kathy Obszanski?
Canadians can call this number if they are struggling with thoughts of suicide.
What is 988 / Suicide Crisis Helpline?
This risky therapy, known for its anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, and pain-relieving properties, is a natural treatment that utilizes venom to provide relief from various ailments.
What is Bee Venom Therapy (BVT)?
This program, jointly developed by SOLGEN and the MERC Diversity Sub-Committee, includes OPSEU staff and managers who identify local needs and lead the delivery of wellness initiatives.
What is the Corrections Wellness Representatives program?
This CEWU training provides managers with tools that help enhance skills to address the impact of occupational stress on their mental health and well-being, and equips them to create psychologically healthy workplaces.
What is the Manager’s Mental Health Learning Pathway (MMHLP)?
This CEWU member has completed the World Wildlife Fund Canada CN Tower Climb three times!
Who is Cecilee Bouyea?
Name the state of equilibrium where an individual successfully manages their professional work responsibilities and their personal life, including family, hobbies, and self-care, without one consistently dominating the other.
What is work-life balance?
This practice combines elements of traditional Chinese medicine with modern psychology, activating specific acupressure points on the body while focusing on negative emotions or physical sensations.
What is Tapping / Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)?
This 'list' enables corrections staff to identify therapists who have experience with the unique stressors of the corrections workplace.
What is the Professional Therapists List for Corrections Employees?
This initiative was created to help prevent suicide and suicide risk among correctional employees.
What is the Employee Suicide Prevention Initiative (ESPI)?
This CEWU team member is preparing for the apocalypse by taking weekly archery lessons.
Who is Tina Flood?
Name one sign of burnout.
What is fatigue / irritability / lack of motivation?
Farmers in the Dolomites have been employing this wellness trend for centuries to recover after a hard day's work.
What is hay bathing?
This directory provides a listing of mental health and wellness resources for staff and managers for a variety of programs offered by local and national agencies that support public safety personnel and their families.
What is the Occupational Stress and Resilience Resources: General Directory for Correctional Services?
This subcommittee jointly supports many employee wellness initiatives.
What is the Occupational Stress Injury (OSI) Subcommittee (COR 14)?
This CEWU team member has read 72 books so far this year, with a year-end goal of 90.
Who is Cara Dowsley?
This resource offers free, confidential internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for all current and former public safety personnel in Ontario who experience higher levels of psychological trauma than the public.
What is PSPNET?
This physical therapy practice involves being completely wrapped in breathable cloth for 20 minutes or longer.
What is Otonamaki, also known as ‘adult wrapping'?
This online training program is being rolled out to new Correctional hires to provide practical tools for frontline workers to manage operational stress.
What is Before Operational Stress (BOS)?
This program is designed to support team building and to create connection to resources and supports for those who work in institutional services, community correctional services as well as their families or significant others.
What is the Corrections Employee Family Program (CEFP)?
This CEWU team member boasts a piece of hockey history in her living room, a stadium chair from blank arena.
Who is Sarah Easterbrook?
This refers to to the psychological distress that arises from actions or events that conflict with an individual's deeply held moral beliefs and values.
What is moral injury?