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Why Bring SMART to Your Community Organization?

Workplace Mental Health: What is the Issue?

Linking Wellbeing to Work: The connection between health and wellbeing, job performance, and employee satisfaction.

• Employee productivity relies heavily on their health and wellbeing. True business success comes from recognizing that employees mirror the care and investment they receive from their employers.

Current Challenges in the Community Health Workforce

The community health workforce encompasses a range of essential health care roles, including nurses in primary care, addiction and social workers in mental health organizations, and personal support workers in home and community care, long-term care among others. These workers ensure patients can receive the right care in the right place and help to reduce the burden on acute care settings, such as hospitals and emergency departments.

Discover a program that:

• Is Trauma-Sensitive and SEL-informed  (SEL = Social and Emotional Learning)
• Fosters a deep sense of belonging and connection within your organization, setting the stage for improved employee well-being.
• Develops Effective Strategies for Challenging Situations: Acquire strategies to relate effectively, ultimately improving your ability to engage with clients, customers and colleagues constructively. 
• Manages Stress and Fosters Emotional Control: smarProfessional equips you with tools to manage stress through a greater understanding and control of emotions, empowering you to create a productive and efficient work environment. 
• Prioritizes Self-Care and Builds Resilience: Learn self-care techniques that foster personal and professional resilience, enhancing your ability to handle the challenges of your job effectively. SMART practically and effectively delivers authentic self-care practices that enhance well-being.
• Enhances Concentration and Executive Function: Gain insights and practices to help yourself enhance concentration and executive function, vital for efficient planning, decision-making, and impulse control. 
• Revitalizes Purpose and Enhances Physical and Mental Well-being: Experience how SMART can rejuvenate your sense of purpose, both personally and professionally, promoting happiness through healthy habits of the mind while cultivating overall mental and physical well-being.

Aligns with 2024 Insights: Employee Health and Productivity Report (Personify Health)

• Better Programs, Better Outcomes: Employees who say their employer has optimized their health and wellbeing program have better outcomes across the board, including fewer employee challenges, health having less impact on job performance, and less time wasted searching for answers about their benefits programs.
• Wellbeing: The Unseen Priority: Only one in four employees believe their employer makes employee wellbeing a high priority, but the data indicates it should be. Half of employees report their health has impacted their ability to do the job, with mental and emotional health being the top issue.

smartCommunity™ – A 9-Session Resilience Program

Program Structure:

smartCommunity™ is a 9-session, 20-hour, evidence-based secular program, designed for organizations. Each session includes:

• Presentations
• Group discussion
• Experiential practices in mindfulness >
• 4-hour silent retreat
• Weekly home practice
• Engagement and Interactivity

Certification:

Successful participants receive a smartCommunity Certificate of Completion.

SMART Integrates the teachings, practices and research from:

• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• Mindful Self-Compassion
• Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance
• Mindful Movement
• Kindness and Compassion training

Who Should Attend

Community leaders, administrators and staff, who are involved in service organzations, taking care of our most vulnerable populations under increasingly stressful situations.