Office of Staff Health and Wellness
This confidential support program provides one-on-one peer or professional support to employees who are experiencing stress, personal challenges, or emotional fatigue.
What is Worker2Worker or EAS Support?
OOR trainings define this as an event that is experienced as life threatening or overwhelming that has lasting adverse effects.
What is Trauma?
One way OCC gathers voices and perspectives from staff and partners is through this activity.
What are Courageous Conversations?
This council, comprised of youth aged 15-23 with experience in DCF programs, collaborates to transform policy and empower young people in New Jersey.
What is the DCF Youth Council?
This program is designed to support new DCF staff with workplace connection, development, teamwork, and stress management, helping reduce attrition and increase intent to remain.
What is Wellness @ Work?
Having at least one adult outside your family who cares about you and your well-being is an example of this in childhood.
What is a Positive Childhood Experience?
This training focuses on best practices to utilize in both written and oral communication. It emphasizes reframing our language to center a person's abilities and talents rather than their challenges.
What is “Words Matter"?
LEEP is the acronym for this partnership that empowers individuals with lived experience to serve as consultants within DCF.
What is the Lived Experience Expert Partnership?
According to the 2023 Safety Culture Survey, OSHW initiatives reduced staff reporting high levels of this workplace challenge, which Safety Culture Scale is tied to burnout and turnover.
What is Emotional Exhaustion?
Deep breathing, taking a walk, drinking cold water can be examples of this skill.
What is Self-Regulation?
This DCF staff member is charged with supporting areas, coaching leaders and facilitating presentations/discussions to create brave and liberated spaces both internally and externally.
What is the OCC liaison?
Established in 2024 this is OFV’s newest council. Their recommendations include improving transparency and communication as well as domestic violence support.
What is the DCF Parent Council?
Each month, OSHW releases this resource with wellness activities, articles, and highlights to keep staff connected.
What is DCF Connect?
This paradigm shift moves from “What happened to you?” to “What’s right with you?” and an identity focused on possibility.
What is Healing Centered?
When you realize your worldview isn’t the main character, you’ve taken the first step toward this reflective, respectful mindset.
What is Cultural Humility?
This approach is characterized by designing with, not for, communities, and prioritizes relationships and trust to guide work through participatory methods.
What is Co-Design?
OSHW’s weekly campaign strengthens connectedness by encouraging staff to share this personal story.
What is “My Why Wednesday”?
In the Hand Model of the Brain, when someone “flips their lid,” this part of the brain goes offline, making it harder to think clearly and regulate emotions.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
This term refers to the shared values, behaviors, and practices that define an organization's environment and employee interactions.
What is Office Culture?
This committee, comprising fathers, DCF representatives, sister departments and community partners meets quarterly to sustain a statewide focus on supporting active fatherhood.
What is the Fatherhood Engagement Committee (FEC)?