Author: zoomentalhealthsupport
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Mental Health First Aid Certification
May is Mental Health Awareness month. To create awareness and education around Mental Health, GRAZE is hosting one of it’s quarterly Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Trainings. Below is a short interview with Hannah Fullmer, Supportive Services Director and Certified Mental Health First Aid for Adults Instructor, to discuss what…
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What is CISM?
We are joined by GRAZE Crisis Response Director, Erin McNally, LVT to understand what a critical incident is, what the CISM response looks like and how peer from within the Aquarium and Zoo industry can get involved.
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Virtual Support Group
Last year we had the opportunity to beta test a new service. Upon completion, the response from participants was impactful. We decided to make the virtual support group a monthly service offered to anyone in the zoo and aquarium industry. We invited GRAZE Virtual Group Facilitator Valerie Bogie, to provide…
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Peer Support Services
Learn from Director of Supportive Services, Hannah Fullmer what Peer Support is, benefits and how to get started.
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Celebrate the Small Wins
As we wrap-up another year, for some this is a time of reflection, other’s a time of planning. Whether it’s next year’s budget, collection planning or simply setting personal goals, we tend to focus on the big achievements and major events. Often getting lost in, or even overwhelmed by the…
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Gratitude: More than an Attitude, But a Science.
November seems to be synonymous with an “Attitude of Gratitude” and practicing being thankful for everything in your life. However, sometimes that can come off as invalidating, especially if one is going through a hard time! An Attitude of Gratitude is not a fad or promotion of toxic positivity (though it…
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The Truth About Self-Care
When you hear someone talk about self-care, what comes to mind? Is it, relaxing in a spa, sitting in a quiet space journaling, meditating peacefully for hours on end…? That it is expensive and time consuming? Well, then you my friend may be stuck in the commercialized awareness of self-care! This…
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Healthy Teams Engage in Productive Conflict
In fifth grade I volunteered to be a part of my school’s conflict management team. This was a group of students, whose sole purpose was to walk around the playground and look for kids in conflict and then walk them through a process for resolving their differences. When I entered…
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The Terrible Ten
This month we are discussing a difficult topic; Critical Incidents. The World Health Organization (WHO), describes a critical incident as an event out of the range of normal experience, one which is sudden and unexpected, involves the perception of a threat to life and can include elements of physical and…