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How can I be mentally healthy at work?

Prosper Health Collective

What is a mentally healthy workplace? All employees have the right to feel safe at work. Safety at work involves both physical and mental safety. A mentally healthy workplace involves the development and maintenance of practices that support the health, safety, and wellbeing of all within the organisation. . Mentally healthy workplaces aim to create work environments that do not impact on mental health now or in the future.

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#CASAsoWhite: Our annual Halloween reminder to CASA: No, it’s not a good idea to raise money by holding a talent show with a blackface act. (And yes, one CASA chapter actually did that.)

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

We suggest that the National office for the Court-Appointed Special Advocates program use this item from The Daily Show as a training video In 2018, r esponding to former Today Show anchor Megyn Kelly’s appalling attempt to justify blackface, (for which she has apologized) her colleague Craig Melvin noted that, as a CNN story put it, “this controversy is an opportunity to inform people — but said most people already knew how offensive blackface is.

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Jones v. Mississippi-the end of an era?

Children and the Law Blog

The Supreme Court without a doubt delivered a sucker punch to the gut with its decision in Jones– a sentencing authority need not find a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. [i] Did Kavanaugh and co. end the forward progress of distinguishing children from adults in […].

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