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Creating Healthy Workplaces

ABOUT US

Many workers face challenges remaining healthy and productively engaged given personal and work demands. For individuals with chronic conditions, these challenges are even more daunting.

Focusing on the health and effective participation of these at-risk groups, we take a holistic approach to create healthy work groups by supporting individuals, understanding risk factors, strengthening groups, developing leaders, and creating healthy organizations.

The EMPOWER Partnership is a team of researchers, health experts, and stakeholders across the world that recognizes the importance of worker health and well-being.

Our Focus

Our mandate is to identify and develop healthy workplace best practices, levering organizational resources to improve worker health and functioning by:

Supporting individual workers
- through coaching to develop skills, resilience, and identifying resources
Strengthening workgroups
- by developing individual skills & collective norms
Developing effective leader functioning
- by coaching & supporting leaders and by helping them to develop healthy workplaces
Fostering psychologically healthy workplaces
- by identifying and developing best practices

Programs

We take a holistic approach to support individuals and to create healthy work groups, leaders, and work environments, focusing on:

workers with challenges of chronic physical and psychological conditions (e.g., diabetes, MS, arthritis, heart disease, pain, anxiety, depression, etc.)
workers faced with chronic work-life demands and stressors (e.g., caregiving issues)

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