Description:

Stress is how our body responds to the challenges or demands we face. While stress often gets a bad name, it can be good for us in short bursts. However, other types of stress, ones that continues indefinitely, can have long-term health impact if left unaddressed. This interactive workshop will help participants identify the WARNING signs their bodies give when they are BECOMING stressed so they can intervene sooner rather than later. In addition, resilience, factors that make us resilient, risk factors that are impedes building resilience, and strategies for building resilience muscles will be explored.

In this workshop, participants will:

• Recognize warning signs that are indicators that they are BECOMING stressed
• Identify some strategies that
• they can use to help themselves when they are becoming stressed
• others can implement to help them when they are becoming stressed
• they can use to help others when they are becoming stressed
• Explain what resiliency is and identify factors and resources that promote it

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Facilitator:

Faith Saunders or you may hear, Faith McCalla – same person! Has been a trainer for over 20+ years. started her career at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), now Rutgers University, where she worked for over 12 years. During this time, Faith received a master’s degree in Psychiatric Rehabilitation from the same and later became an adjunct professor at the School of Health Related Professionals – a position she held for many years. Faith left Rutgers University to implement and develop a New Jersey State-funded Employment  Institute – Career Connection Employment Resource Institute (CCERI) at the Mental Health Association in New Jersey (MHANJ). She served as director of CCERI for fourteen years – providing training and technical assistance to over 150 organizations in 10 New Jersey counties on mental health and employment-related issues.

If you have questions or are having trouble using a discount code for one of our workshops, please contact workshops@supportcenteronline.org.

We request that organizations limit their registrations to 5 participants per workshop. If you would like more than 5 employees of your organization to participate in this workshop, please email [email protected]

Registration is required. Please be advised that by registering for this event, unless we hear from you otherwise, we will include you as part of our regular electronic mailing list. Please also be advised that the event may be recorded or photographed by Support Center for Nonprofit Management (Support Center). By enrolling for this event, you hereby: (1) give consent for Support Center or any third parties to use your photograph or image in its print, online and video publications; (2) release Support Center, its employees and any outside third parties from all liabilities or claims that you might assert in connection with the above-described uses; and (3) waive any right to inspect, approve or receive compensation for any materials or communications, including photographs, videotapes, website images or written materials, incorporating photos/images of you. To revoke this waiver, please email Program Manager, Gabriela Barria, at [email protected].