“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, think tanks, organizing Zoom calls, and attending retreats and training sessions in an attempt to address the needs of their staff.
The problem is addressing the “wellness” of your staff will not be an easy task for you to complete as the correctional culture does not afford for such things to flourish. So, if you tackle this particular problem in the same manner as you have tackled problems in the past, your program, your initiative will fail.
In this course, we’ll discuss five potential challenges to starting and maintaining a successful Staff Wellness program and how an agency can navigate those challenges.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will gain a better understanding of what staff may be experiencing and why listening to their staff's perspective is important to the success of a wellness program.
Upon completion, participants will learn the importance of placing the right people in the right positions and what that process looks like in their agency.
Upon completion, participants will be able to describe ways that their agency can ensure that there is consistency and follow through related to their wellness program.
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify personal beliefs and internal obstacles that may hinder their want to establish a wellness program.
Upon completion, participants will learn about the “culture of toughness” in corrections and how the overall tone of their facility could prevent the implementation of a successful wellness program.
