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The Office for Student Success, UK Human Resources and the College of Medicine have launched a well-being collaborative conversation. Together, they have joined forces under one goal to increase awareness of well-being resources and enhance efforts across the entire university that will support the mental health and wellness of students, faculty and staff.
What do you do when you witness someone struggling with suicidal thoughts or when someone tells you they intend to harm themselves? The University of Kentucky offers an online program called QPR to equip you with the right answers and actions. Think of it as a CPR program for mental health crises. Dr. Greg talks with Marc Woods, Chief Nursing Officer for Behavioral Medicine at UK HealthCare and Eastern State Hospital about QPR, which stands for Question, Persuade and Refer.
UK Human Resources, in collaboration with UK HealthCare's Healthy Kentucky Initiative, is offering a free online training to help employees who know someone affected by mental illness become a mental health champion and learn how to save a life through a research-backed suicide prevention training program.
UK Human Resources has expanded their annual Well-being Week to three weeks this year to accommodate more staff and faculty schedules and focus on three elements - playfulness, connection and flow.