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Cision Canada
27-05-2025
- Health
- Cision Canada
CMHA National launches flexible mental health training for managers, ready for your LMS
TORONTO, May 27, 2025 /CNW/ - To meet the growing need for mental health training in workplaces, the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), National, has launched a first-of-its-kind offering: Not Myself Today ® for Managers — a fully LMS-compatible eLearning series designed to integrate directly into an organization's existing Learning Management System (LMS). This innovative model makes it easier for employers to implement mental health training, track and report on progress, and ensure consistency across their leadership teams. "What makes this different from our standard Not Myself Today ® program is the delivery model," says Katharine Coons, National Associate Director, Workplace Mental Health, CMHA National. "By bringing the training directly into an employer's LMS, we're making mental health learning more accessible and measurable by embedding it into everyday learning." With 3 in 5 employees experiencing work-related stress, there comes a cost when mental health at work is ignored. In fact, research shows that manager mental health training directly improves employee experience, well-being, and psychological safety. By providing mental health training to managers, organizations show a 28% reduction in work-related sick leave, 27% decrease in mental health disability duration, 20% reduction in related costs, and overall higher retention, productivity, and engagement. "The data shows that employees thrive when their managers demonstrate psychological safety, empathy, and confidence in navigating mental health topics," says Coons. "Training managers through a consistent, LMS-integrated experience ensures those leadership qualities are fostered at scale — and that no one gets left behind." Not Myself Today ® for Managers includes more than four hours of interactive, evidence-informed content, spread across five on-demand and self-paced courses, all designed to equip managers with the skills and confidence to support mental health at work. Topics include: Mental Health 101 Stress Management & Resilience Building Managing Workloads & Preventing Burnout Supporting Employee Mental Health Fostering a Positive Work Culture Features and benefits include: Interactive video simulations of real-life conversations Expert interviews and animated explainers Click-to-reveal interactions and knowledge checks Automated progress tracking and reporting A Mental Health Leadership Certificate upon completion And more Not Myself Today ® is an evidence-based mental health initiative by the Canadian Mental Health Association that has helped organizations of all sizes across Canada build healthier workplaces. Whether LMS-enabled or not, organizations can preview the Not Myself Today ® training through a short demo. To book a session with a CMHA representative, visit About the Canadian Mental Health Association Founded in 1918, the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is the most established, most extensive community mental health federation in Canada. Through a presence in more than 330 communities across every province and the Yukon, CMHA provides advocacy, programs and resources that help to prevent mental health problems and illnesses, support recovery and resilience, and enable all Canadians to flourish and thrive. For more information, please visit About Not Myself Today ® Not Myself Today ® is a social enterprise of the Canadian Mental Health Association, National. The program provides helpful tips, learning modules and other resources for employees to help improve their mental health at work. The platform helps to build an open and supportive workplace by cultivating meaningful conversations and deeper understanding about mental health and wellness in the workplace. For more information, visit SOURCE Canadian Mental Health Association
Chicago Tribune
13-05-2025
- General
- Chicago Tribune
Grant funding supports 50 new trees in Indian Head Park
A $25,000 matching grant to support the planting of more than 50 trees on public property in the fall and next spring is a perfect fit for Indian Head Park. The village has been a Tree City USA community for 35 years, a designation by the Arbor Day Foundation, which has a mission of inspiring people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees. 'The village values its wildlife and the beauty of nature,' said Joe Coons, Indian Head Park's director of Public Works. 'Also, the village has a no fence ordinance in place, so planting trees becomes even more important for screening and beautification.' The grant funding is provided by the Urban and Community Forestry Programs of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service – Eastern Region. The village has allocated an additional $25,000 from the approved 2025/2026 budget to support the project. The program is administered by The Morton Arboretum's Chicago Region Trees Initiative, which supports urban forestry planning and implementation efforts throughout the region. 'This grant allows Indian Head Park to continue our legacy of environmental stewardship by strengthening our urban tree canopy for generations to come,' Village President Amy Jo Wittenberg said in a statement. 'As a Tree City USA community for 35 years, proactive tree management and canopy enhancement remain top priorities. These new trees will improve quality of life and build resilience against environmental stressors, pests and diseases.' Urban Tree Canopy is the leafy, green, overhead cover from trees that community groups, residents, and local governments maintain in the landscape for beauty, shade, fruit production, wildlife habitat, energy conservation, stormwater mitigation and a host of public health and educational values, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 'A good tree canopy not only makes the community beautiful, but it also helps with keeping temperatures cooler during the summer months,' Coons said. 'It also helps with flood mitigation.' Coons said the planting locations for the additional trees will be identified using the village's in-progress Urban Forestry Management Plan, which includes a detailed tree inventory report. 'The inventory will evaluate tree quantity, species, condition, and size, helping guide reforestation decisions and tree maintenance strategies into the future,' he said. Coons said the village usually tries to plant at least 20 trees per year. The grant will allow Indian Head Park to plant more trees than otherwise would be the case, he said. Newly planted trees will be a mix of replacements for existing trees and additional ones. Indian Head Park is one of 186 places in Illinois that have received the Tree City USA designation.
Technical.ly
02-05-2025
- Business
- Technical.ly
Delaware leaders address homegrown clean energy at in-person Town Hall
It's been a big month for clean tech in Delaware. There was the CleanTech Innovation Ecosystem Summit at the Delaware Innovation Space, including Startup302's Environmental Impact Finals, and the topic of clean energy took center stage (if only for a few minutes) at the Delaware town wall featuring the state's congressional delegation, the governor and the attorney general. Also new: big biotech expansions in New Castle County, the First State's first esports high school state championships and a Tech Council of Delaware fly-in to DC. Keep reading to get the details, and don't forget about next week's Philly Tech Week presented by Comcast and the Builders Conference. Hop on SEPTA to get there while you still can! A plea for more energy infrastructure On Saturday, April 26, Delawareans had an opportunity to speak directly to state leadership at the first in-person town hall of the second Trump administration. All of Delaware's congressional leaders — Rep. Sarah McBride, Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester and Sen. Chris Coons — were present, as well as Gov. Matt Meyer and Attorney General Kathy Jennings. Community members pressed the all-Democrat panel on several topics, dominated by opposition to the Trump administration and demands for more aggressive action in Congress, as well as protest against the US role in the ongoing Gaza war. Clean energy also came up, as a union boilermaker from New Castle made a plea for more energy infrastructure in Delaware. 'Our nation is on the brink of an electric energy crisis because of the enormous amount of electricity demands needed to power data centers, AI, Bitcoin mining and cannabis farming,' he said. 'What distinguishes Delaware is the fact that our state imports more of its electricity generation, percentage wise, than any other state in the union, and we must change that.' Senator Coons responded, referencing the $750 million grant for the Mid Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub, also known as MACH2, that connects Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey as a center of the burgeoning hydrogen economy. Unfortunately, he said, the grant, approved by the previous administration, may not materialize. 'The current administration is this close to canceling that,' Coons said. 'I know this isn't universally known, but Newark, Delaware happens to be one of the world's leading centers of hydrogen technology. We have a real opportunity here to grow a business, to produce clean energy, to export it to the rest of the world, and I'm fighting hard, working with Democrats and Republicans to prevent the shutdown of our hydrogen hub.' Governor Meyer added that the state is working on a plan to make the state both energy independent and run on clean energy. 'Within a decade, we [plan to] go to 100% renewable Delaware produced energy,' Meyer said. 'It will not be easy to achieve.' A major roadblock, the governor said, is gaining regulatory support for the beleaguered offshore wind projects that have been in the works for years. 'There is outright opposition to many of these things from the federal government,' Meyer said. 'In spite of that, we're going to do everything with solar, potentially with wind, hopefully with hydrogen, and maybe even with a little nuclear to make sure we are moving forward.' Watch the full town hall here. More Moves: Merk's $1 billion complex at Chestnut Run will be the main production plant for cancer drug Keytruda. Biotech clinical research organization QPS Holdings is making a $16.6 million expansion at Delaware Technology Park in Newark. Futures First Gaming — and the State of Delaware — hit an esports milestone last month when it hosted the first-ever Delaware Scholastic Esports League Mario Kart High School State Championships at Theatre N. Cleantech startup KiposTech took the top prize in the 2025 Startup302 Environmental Impact Finals, held during the CleanTech Innovation Ecosystem Summit at the Delaware Innovation Space on April 24. The Tech Council of Delaware returned to DC for the 2025 Technology Councils of North America Fly-in, and got some face time with Sen. McBride. TechForum's AIinDE event returns May 14 at Theatre N in Wilmington with the theme 'How Local Businesses Are Leveraging Artificial Intelligence,' featuring four speakers from Delaware's tech community. May the 4th be with you! If you're spending this Star Wars Day weekend in Rehoboth, Taco Reho will have themed specials, including Vader's Taders topped with 'darkside salsa.'
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Former Biden campaign co-chair pressed on whether he regrets defending former president's fitness
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., was pressed Tuesday on whether he regretted criticizing fellow Democrats over their reservations about former President Joe Biden following his disastrous 2024 debate performance. CNN anchor John Berman cited authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes' reporting in their book about the presidential campaign that Coons knew Biden's debate performance was bad, but still chose to accuse his Democratic colleagues of "bed-wetting" as they expressed concerns over the former president. "Now, there are some people who've written on this, including Jim Geraghty in the National Review, who say, if you felt that way, maybe you shouldn't have criticized Democrats for their reservations about President Biden at the time. Do you wish you had done things differently at this point?" Berman asked Coons. "Obviously, if I had any idea that President Biden was going to perform as poorly as he did at that debate, I would have been advising him differently and advocating differently. That debate performance was the first time I saw anything like that out of President Biden," Coons responded. Top Biden Ally 'Getting A Little Tired Of Relentless Focus' On Biden's Age, Hits Back At Questions "He had been and was a strong and capable president, and he still had strong public performances, interviews, and just the next day went to North Carolina and spoke forcefully at a rally, but I was shocked. I was genuinely surprised by that performance that evening and was wrestling with what it meant for our path forward," he told Berman. Read On The Fox News App Allen and Parnes wrote that Coons received several texts from his colleagues that pointed out the performance by Biden was "terrible," and that he was expected to answer for the president. An excerpt from the book read: "Now, jet-lagged, he found himself thrust into the unusual position of protecting Biden from Democratic senators. He knew, as Biden's guy in their chamber, he could give no ground. If he did, it would only feed the frenzy. He shot back texts accusing his colleagues of bed-wetting, telling them to put their big-kid pants on and asking what was wrong with them that they would so easily go faithless on the president." Coons, according to the book, acknowledged that he saw what his colleagues saw, and knew the president "s--- the bed" in the debate. 'Biden Effect' Hits The Senate: Wave Of Retirements Clears Path For Younger Dems The Democratic senator regularly defended Biden when pressed on concerns about the president's age and fitness throughout the campaign. In an interview on Fox News' "The Story" prior to the debate in early June, Coons dismissed reporting from The Wall Street Journal that cited lawmakers who felt the former president was showing signs of decline. "I think they got this wrong because they didn't use quotes from those of us who serve with President Biden, who know him, who have had the opportunity up-close-and-personal in meetings in the White House or in events publicly or privately, to give affirmation that he is sharp, he is engaged, and he is commanding," he said. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture After the debate – as Democrats and several media voices, including The New York Times editorial board, called on Biden to drop out of the race – Coons spoke to CNN on July 1 and demanded anyone who believed calling on Biden to drop out was the best way forward needed to "refocus."Original article source: Former Biden campaign co-chair pressed on whether he regrets defending former president's fitness
Fox News
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Former Biden campaign co-chair pressed on whether he regrets defending former president's fitness
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., was pressed Tuesday on whether he regretted criticizing fellow Democrats over their reservations about former President Joe Biden following his disastrous 2024 debate performance. CNN anchor John Berman cited authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes' reporting in their book about the presidential campaign that Coons knew Biden's debate performance was bad, but still chose to accuse his Democratic colleagues of "bed-wetting" as they expressed concerns over the former president. "Now, there are some people who've written on this, including Jim Geraghty in the National Review, who say, if you felt that way, maybe you shouldn't have criticized Democrats for their reservations about President Biden at the time. Do you wish you had done things differently at this point?" Berman asked Coons. "Obviously, if I had any idea that President Biden was going to perform as poorly as he did at that debate, I would have been advising him differently and advocating differently. That debate performance was the first time I saw anything like that out of President Biden," Coons responded. "He had been and was a strong and capable president, and he still had strong public performances, interviews, and just the next day went to North Carolina and spoke forcefully at a rally, but I was shocked. I was genuinely surprised by that performance that evening and was wrestling with what it meant for our path forward," he told Berman. Allen and Parnes wrote that Coons received several texts from his colleagues that pointed out the performance by Biden was "terrible," and that he was expected to answer for the president. An excerpt from the book read: "Now, jet-lagged, he found himself thrust into the unusual position of protecting Biden from Democratic senators. He knew, as Biden's guy in their chamber, he could give no ground. If he did, it would only feed the frenzy. He shot back texts accusing his colleagues of bed-wetting, telling them to put their big-kid pants on and asking what was wrong with them that they would so easily go faithless on the president." Coons, according to the book, acknowledged that he saw what his colleagues saw, and knew the president "s--- the bed" in the debate. The Democratic senator regularly defended Biden when pressed on concerns about the president's age and fitness throughout the campaign. In an interview on Fox News' "The Story" prior to the debate in early June, Coons dismissed reporting from The Wall Street Journal that cited lawmakers who felt the former president was showing signs of decline. "I think they got this wrong because they didn't use quotes from those of us who serve with President Biden, who know him, who have had the opportunity up-close-and-personal in meetings in the White House or in events publicly or privately, to give affirmation that he is sharp, he is engaged, and he is commanding," he said. After the debate – as Democrats and several media voices, including The New York Times editorial board, called on Biden to drop out of the race – Coons spoke to CNN on July 1 and demanded anyone who believed calling on Biden to drop out was the best way forward needed to "refocus."
