Mindfulness: A Resilience Practice
Discover the impact of stress and the way that mindfulness practices can help teachers become more resilient. Try a mindfulness practice with children in your program.
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Staff Mental Health
These resources explore how Head Start programs can support their staff in coping with stress and adversity. Topics include mindfulness, resilience, and strategies for managing stress.
Managing Stress with Mindful Moments
Explore how breathing and movement exercises can help you manage stress. Discover ways to use mindful movements to contribute to your self-care practices.
1302.93 Staff health and wellness.
This standard helps ensure a program-wide culture of wellness that empowers staff as professionals and supports their mental health, physical health, and health literacy.
You Make the Difference: Posters
These posters provide tips for staff on how to reduce stress and make the workplace a great place to be.
Cultivating Wellness: 8 Dimensions of Staff Well-being
This resource describes eight dimensions of staff well-being. Head Start programs can use this resource to make sure they are promoting staff wellness across all dimensions.
Tips to Support Family Services Staff Wellness
Review strategies to support the wellness of family services professionals and home visitors; the resource is written for program supervisors and leaders as well as family services staff and home visitors themselves.
Strategy 3: Offer Ongoing Professional Development on Staff Wellness
Staff wellness can be supported by offering training and technical assistance in ways to handle stressful times, such as when holding sensitive conversations, managing conflict, and dealing with trauma.
Strategy 4: Provide Reflective Supervision
Providing staff with reflective supervision can improve staff wellness by addressing barriers to wellness, improving job satisfaction, and strengthening relationships throughout the program.
Self-Care Tips for Family Services Professionals and Home Visitors
Promoting simple but effective ways to support one’s own wellness can contribute to the wellness of individuals who work with families, the overall program, and the families served.
