Frontline Workers Wellness Toolkit

Resources for leadership

“A company is only as resilient as its people” says Arianna Huffington, founder of Thrive Global, a company whose goal is to make the world’s health and well-being better.

As a leader, it is important to pay attention to the health of the work environment and well-being of your workforce. This will impact employee satisfaction, retention, attendance, health, and productivity. This toolkit will help you to assess your current practices and give practical tools to support a healthy workplace.

To find out more about your organization, take one of our self-assessment tools:

TRUST

TRUST is a strengths-based organizational self-assessment tool that provides organizations and schools with a point-in-time “snapshot” of where they are in their journey toward becoming a trauma-responsive and equity-centered organization.

Creating an organizational wellness plan

The organizational wellness plan provides people in leadership with step-by-step instructions on how to create, maintain, and sustain a wellness plan for their organization.

In the meantime...

Indeed Career Guide, a website for employers to post job openings, suggests some common practices for taking care of employees:

Resources for leaders, supervisors, and managers

Here are some resources that leadership can utilize to improve their organization or agency’s overall health and wellness.

Provider Wellness

These 4-videos series are made to help people who work in human services. There are four videos, a guide for thinking about them, and a set of slides. They talk about how to stay healthy and strong at work.

The Benefits of Promoting Wellness at Work

This resource showcases how stress in the workplace affects employees, as well as the benefits of investing in wellness programs in your organization.

Wilson Foundation Trauma Informed Organization Roadmap

A guidance document to walk organizations through a review of current practices to move toward trauma-informed and responsive organizations for staff and those they served. This document uses the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) 10 Domains of Trauma-Informed Organizations.

NYSIF State of Wellness: Employee Health Starts With Mental Health

NYS Insurance Fund (NYSIF) is always helping workers achieve the best possible health outcomes. With their State of Wellness program, NYSIF is doing it in a whole new way. This site provides employers and employees with engaging resources on various wellness topics.

The Pressure Purpose Pivot

A quick mental reset designed to interrupt repetitive, circular thinking and bring you back to what you can control and why it matters.

4-7-8 Leadership Reset

A breathing-based technique proven to interrupt the stress response cycle. This practice can be used by leaders to ease stress between high-pressure decisions at work.

More resources

Impact Wellbeing Guide

This tool provides concrete practices for leaders that can be implemented within the workspace. The guide was real-world tested in six hospitals across the United States. The authors then revised for greater clarity and a wider range of tools and resources.

Trauma-Informed Care Supervision

This tool offers ideas, questions, and reflections to help supervisors implement Trauma-Informed Practices.

Habits of an Equity-Centered Leader

An equity-centered leader makes decisions with the intention of advancing equity in the workplace. This tool offers a list of habits associated with leaders who center equity in the workplace, with examples of what these habits sound like in support of wellness for all staff.

Calm: Empowering Employee Self-Care in Challenging Times

Self-care for managers: Great leaders take care of their teams, but they also need to care for themselves to avoid burnout. This guide explains why self-care matters for managers and shares simple tips to help them stay healthy, be effective, and better support their teams.