Trainings for HR and Employment Law Professionals
Integrating Mental Wellbeing into Employer
Wellness, Engagement, and Compliance Strategies
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Team-Based Workplace Wellness & Resilience
This program engages everyone in the organization in creating a wellness mindset and work culture. This series of virtual or onsite trainings includes:
· Pre-training survey to tailor program curriculum to client organization.
· Starts with leadership training, then rolled out for all staff.
· Defining wellness broadly to encompass physical, social, psychological, and all dimensions.
· A shared conversation about resilience, exploring the factors that help us meet and overcome challenges, especially during a pandemic.
· Brain science and evidence-based habits and work practices that boost mood, cognitive functioning, and performance.
· Setting wellness goals at the team level, establishing voluntary wellness teams and group activities.
Compliance Readiness: Early Intervention, Support and Accommodation of Mental Health Conditions
This program prepares all levels of the organization, including line supervisors, managers, human resources and legal staff, to provide a unified, proactive, humane, and compliant response to employee mental health conditions.
Integrating risk management with people management, this consultation and virtual training program includes:
· Review and update of policies and procedures governing Family Medical Leave Act, Title VII, and Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations of mental health conditions.
· Your duties under the FMLA, Title VII, and ADA, legal case studies, and when and how to appropriately intervene, support, and accommodate employees who may be struggling.
· Managing business and legal risk while maximizing employee support, retention, and performance.
Trainings are offered through a partnership between Judge (Ret.) Mary McClatchey & Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas
Judge (Ret.) Mary McClatchey, J.D., LLC.
Judge (Ret.) Mary McClatchey has over three decades of experience as a judge, civil rights attorney, workplace mediator and trainer, and public speaker. A passionate mental health advocate with lived experience, she advises, trains, and consults with employers on how to create psychologically healthy workplaces, how to use accommodations as everyday management tools, and how to manage risk under the ADA, FMLA, and Title VII. Judge McClatchey’s pragmatic approach emphasizes the business case for early detection, treatment, and accommodation of employee mental health conditions, outlines common pitfalls in employer responses, and provides solutions for overcoming these challenges. During her judicial career with the State of Colorado, Judge McClatchey decided and mediated federal and state employment and civil rights claims for 15 years. Before that she served as General Counsel for the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and trial counsel in the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, litigated in private practice, and served as a local prosecutor. Judge McClatchey is a member of the National Workplace Suicide Prevention Program task force, a key contributor to its White Paper for HR and Legal professionals, and has presented nationally on workplace mental health issues, including the Employee Assistance Roundtable National Conference, the National Behavioral Consortium, the Employee Assistance Program Association, the Colorado Business Group on Health annual conferences, and legal conferences and forums. Judge McClatchey studied Human Capital Management Analytics at the CU Denver Graduate School of Business, has a Juris Doctorate from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Bachelor of Arts from The Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas: As a clinical psychologist, inspirational international speaker, impact entrepreneur, and survivor of suicide loss, Dr. Spencer-Thomas sees the issues of suicide prevention and mental health promotion from many perspectives. Dr. Spencer-Thomas was moved to work in suicide prevention after her younger brother, a Denver entrepreneur, died of suicide after a difficult battle with bipolar condition. Known nationally and internationally as an innovator in social change, Spencer-Thomas has helped start up multiple large-scale, gap filling efforts in mental health including the award-winning campaign Man Therapy (a program using humor to engage men in mental health) and the nation’s first comprehensive workplace program designed to help employers with the successful prevention, intervention, and crisis management of suicide. A recent invited speaker at the White House, Spencer-Thomas’ goal is to elevate the conversation and make suicide prevention a health and safety priority in our schools, workplaces and communities. Spencer-Thomas has also held leadership positions for the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, the International Association for Suicide Prevention, the American Association for Suicidology, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. She has won multiple awards for her advocacy including the 2014 Survivor of the Year from the American Association of Suicidology, the 2014 Invisible Disabilities Association Impact Honors Award, and the 2012 Alumni Master Scholar from the University of Denver, the 2015 Farbarow Award from the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the 2016 Career Achievement Alumni Award from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology.
She has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver, Masters in Non-profit Management from Regis University, a Bachelors in Psychology and Studio Art with a Minor in Economics from Bowdoin College. She has written four books on mental health and violence prevention. She lives with her partner and three sons in Conifer, Colorado.
Connect with Dr. Spencer-Thomas by visiting her website and signing up for her newsletter at www.SallySpencerThomas.com and by following her on Facebook @DrSallySpeaks, Twitter @sspencerthomas and LinkedIn. Come “elevate the conversation” with her by participating in her monthly podcasts, blogs and twitter chats!