JANUARY 2019
Greetings,
In this first newsletter of 2019, we review our "Upcoming Training," and "2018 Accomplishments". Particularly, we list our efforts to disseminate prevention education regarding the growing crisis of workplace prescription drug misuse.
Among our main accomplishments in 2018 was providing curriculum and train-the-trainer certificates to almost 160 workplace trainers throughout the United States and additional 200 that we trained in our Wellness Champion model.
Please read more below about Press, Magazine Articles, Public Health Meetings, Conference Presentations, Webinars,and Research.
In case you missed it, our last newsletter highlighted OWLS evidence-based programs with descriptions of all of them free for you to download.
Best,
The OWLS Team
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PRESS AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES in 2018
Each article is linked below
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PUBLIC HEALTH MEETINGS in 2018
We had the opportunity to visit with large association and government representatives in an effort to educate them about policy and programmatic efforts around substance use (opioid) prevention and organizational wellness intervention. We also sent a detailed letter to the Senate Finance Committee and the acting Director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Please contact us if you would like copies of those letters.
- Surgeon General’s Office
- National Safety Council
- Department of Labor
- Senator John Cornyn's Public Health Liaison
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS in 2018
We gave slide presentations and interactive sessions on 'Empowered Health Consciousness' in each of these venues. You can access the Total Worker Health presentation by clicking the link below.
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- Health Benefits Conference & Expo (Clearwater, FL) - January
- Total Worker Health (CDC) (Bethesda, MD) - May
- National Wellness Conference (Minneapolis) - June
- Integrating Primary & Behavioral Healthcare through the Lens of Prevention (Charleston, SC) - November
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WEBINARS AND TRAINING in 2018
Different organizations gave us the opportunity to present to their members and students. You can access some of these via the underlined links below.
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RELEVANT AND RECENT RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
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- Bennett, J.B. (2018). Integral Organizational Wellness™: An evidence‐based model of socially inspired well‐being, Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, e12136.
- Bennett, J. B., Neeper, M., Linde, B. D., Lucas, G. M., & Simone, L. (2018). Team Resilience Training in the Workplace: E-Learning Adaptation, Measurement Model, and Two Pilot Studies. JMIR Mental Health, 5(2).
- Bennett, J. B., Lucas, G. M., Linde, B. D., Neeper, M., Hudson, M., Gatchel, R. (2018). A process model of health consciousness: Its application to the prevention of workplace prescription drug misuse. Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, e12130.
- Lucas, G., Neeper, M., Linde, B., & Bennett, J. (2017). Preventing prescription drug misuse in work settings: Efficacy of a brief intervention in health consciousness. Journal of Medical Internet research, 19(7).
- Neeper, M., Bennett, J. B., Galvin, D. M., & Lucas, G. (2016). Workplace prevention of prescription drug abuse: Pilot assessment of a new psycho-educational program. Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy, 7(277), 1-4.
- Bennett, J., Bray, J., Hughes, D., Hunter, J., Frey, J.J., Roman, P., Sharar, D. (2015). Bridging Public Health with Workplace Behavioral Health Services. Independent paper jointly sponsored by the Employee Assistance Professionals Association, The Employee Assistance Research Foundation, and the Employee Assistance Society of North America.
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"Our work with OWLS has been the best thing
to happen to us in the past 10 years!"
~Ruth Gassman, PhD
Director, Indiana Prevention Resource Center
10/17/2018
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OWLS will be introducing a new program funded by NIH that we tested in a clinical trial.
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integrates traditional wellness with mental well-being strategies. Using behavior change techniques,
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provides various application program interface options, survey algorithms, and resource options so you can deliver a tailored “nudge” to employees based on their self-identified interests and risks.
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™ Testimonials
"I really enjoyed the program. I liked the survey and quizzes and liked that it was on
topics that was important. It was engaging because of the quizzes. The point system kept me coming back"- iLinkwell User
"I enjoyed learning about myself through the quizzes. I liked being able to make plans
and set goals and being able to go back and set where you are in your plan."- iLinkwell User
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Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems | 817.921.4260 | www.organizationalwellness.com
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