Protecting the Protectors:

Session Overview

Local public health professionals continue to face intense demands — from ongoing emergency response to workforce shortages, burnout, and shifting expectations. Supporting, retaining, and empowering this workforce is more critical than ever. Recent research makes clear the solution takes a focus on both the organization and the individual. Protecting the protectors helps build your organization’s capacity to serve its community, so that everyone has a chance to flourish.

This session reprises and updates the popular plenary session from this year’s NACCHO360. If you missed it, this is your chance. If you enjoyed it, join us for updates, and bring a colleague.

Presenters will examine the urgent need to strengthen the workforce through evidence-informed approaches that prioritize mental well-being, build resilience, and promote a healthy work culture. Join us to preview the latest national data from PH WINS. Gain inspiration and new skills from a global expert on the science of happiness, who will share ways to harness our brains for greater focus and fulfillment.  Get the latest updates on Behavioral Health 360, including new ways to build stronger community mental health, while focusing on your own workforce, as well. 

Learn to “put your oxygen mask on first” so you can bring your best to the task of tackling hard problems in the community.

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