Event State: Confirmed
Organization: ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Expected Headcount: 18
Attendees - Students: FALSE
Attendees - Alumni: FALSE
Attendees - Faculty: FALSE
Attendees - Staff: FALSE
Attendees - Off Campus: TRUE
Event Contact Phone Number:: 2095139446
Event Contact Email Address:: barreaga@csustan.edu
Event Contact Name:: Bernard Arreaga Jr.
Performer/Speaker/Lecturer?: TRUE
Co-Sponsored with Off-Campus Entity?: FALSE
Hiring Off-Campus Service Provider?: FALSE
Attendees - Off Campus (Describe):: San Joaquin County CalWORKs Participants who are referred to the program
Agenda/Timeline for this Event:: Monday: Success is a Choice: This topic covers the power of positive self-image, discovering your vision and purpose, setting goals that motivate, and keys to achieving success in life. Dress for Success: This topic includes a slide show, image presentation, personal appearance and grooming techniques, and make overs. Physical Wellness: This topic is highlighted as a life skill for maintaining health, increasing energy and obtaining balance for work. Basic breathing techniques and non-strenuous movements are taught to help reduce stress at work, avoid work-related injuries, promote relaxation, and increase concentration all of which will ultimately result in greater productivity and less absenteeism.Tuesday Managing Job Stress: This topic includes the effects of stress on one's body and mind, how to recognize one's own stress signals and those of others, the specific contributors to workplace stress and strategies for dealing with it. This critical life skill topic encourages clients to have more power over their lives and better coping mechanisms for dealing with stress. Knowledge gained will increase success in the workplace which ultimately contributes to sustaining employment. Healthy Eating for Better Job Performance: This topic covers eating for energy and wellness. How to recognize the signs that trigger poor nutritional choices and appropriate ways to deal with these triggers will be addressed. Additionally, clients will learn the important life skill of making better nutritional choices through an understanding of healthy eating guidelines and weight management techniques.Wednesday Temperaments in the Workplace: This topic utilizes the True Colors career self-assessment tool to identify individual strengths and qualities in a fun and lighthearted way. It encourages clients to recognize, understand, and appreciate the differences in others and how these differences impact relationships at work. It also increases individual self-knowledge in relationship to job choice, self-confidence, respect, dignity, esteem, worthiness and character. Health Issues that Interfere with Job Performance and Attendance: This topic explores health issues that could interfere with job performance and attendance. This will ensure that clients are aware of common viruses, infections, diseases, and conditions and the preventative measures one can take to avoid and/or treat them. This topic will also address employer's expectations regarding attendance and absenteeism due to health-related issues.Thursday Conflict Resolution in the Workplace: This topic focuses on effective communication, what you see versus what you get, blocks to listening, techniques for active listening, and role-playing activities that can be used constructively to assist any difficult situation in the workplace. The Working Parent: This topic covers stresses of parenting and clarifies differences between discipline and punishment. Additionally, it provides solutions for overcoming obstacles such as being a single parent, child care, and behavior problems that parents may face.Friday Safety and Prevention of Personal and Workplace Violence: This topic outlines ways to identify and handle potentially dangerous or abusive situations that interfere with work. Domestic violence, the cycle of violence, obstacles to leaving a domestically violent relationship, warning signs, safety plan, effects on children, and myths versus facts about domestic violence will be reviewed. Additionally, examples of workplace violence will be discussed. Clients will gain an understanding of how violence or harassment in or brought to the workplace will interfere with job performance and is cause for dismissal from the job.
Invite Type: Closed Event - Invite Extended Privately
Physical Activity/Game/Sport?: TRUE
Amplified Sound/Music/Speaking?: FALSE
Registration/Entrance Fee?: FALSE
Non-Compensated Volunteers Involved?: FALSE
Alcoholic Beverages Served?: FALSE
Off-Campus Youth Present?: FALSE
Soliciting Sponsorships, Donations, Gifts from Businesses for a Fundraiser?: FALSE
OIT Tech/Media/Network Services Work Order Request Needed?: FALSE
Dignitary/Elected Official Invited to this Event?: FALSE
Food/Beverage Served?: TRUE
Event Setup Requested for the Stockton location?: FALSE
Event Locator: 2025-ABCBQZ
Organizer: aponce15@csustan.edu
Describe the Physical Activity/Game/Sport:: Tai Chi and/or Exercise (indoors or outdoors)
Describe the Food/Beverage from Other Entity:: Prepackaged Snacks/Drinks
Performer/Speaker/Lecturer Name & Affiliation:: Instructors: Liz Winter Diana Galvan Heather Adams Davina Arreaga Ashley Boleware Kristy Lauron Steven McCarty Stephanie Parnell Maria Escudero
Will the Food/Beverage be Cooked, Purchased, or Served by another entity/dept/org?: TRUE

One-Week Program

Work Wellness: The Basics - traditional, One-Week Curriculum

This program may be used for CalWORKs participants who have been identified by their case managers as having the following barriers or needs:

• Frequent job losses (quits and firings) or excuses for not participating.
  
• Prerequisite for participants without a job history before they enter Supervised Job Search.
  
• Participants with a job offered but the job will not start for one or more weeks.
  
• Participants who are identified by career assessment counselors as needing life skills training.
  
• Having difficulty in making satisfactory progress or lack of follow-through on assigned activities.
  
• Participants who are waiting to start vocational education, job training programs, or during school breaks.
  

Wellness WORKs! Curriculum Continued:

During the one-week and three-week programs fifteen instructors, each an expert in their field, teach the following:

• Success is a Choice: This topic covers the power of positive self-image, discovering your vision and purpose, setting goals that motivate, and keys to achieving success in life.
  

• Dress for Success: This topic includes a slide show, image presentation, personal appearance, and grooming techniques.
  

• Physical Wellness: This topic is highlighted as a life skill for maintaining health, increasing energy, and obtaining balance for work. Basic breathing techniques and non-strenuous movements are taught to help reduce stress at work, avoid work-related injuries, promote relaxation, and increase concentration all of which will ultimately result in greater productivity and less absenteeism.
  

• Managing Job Stress: This topic includes the effects of stress on one's body and mind, how to recognize one's own stress signals and those of others, the specific contributors to workplace stress, and strategies for dealing with it. This critical life skill topic encourages clients to have more power over their lives and better coping mechanisms for dealing with stress. Knowledge gained will increase success in the workplace which ultimately contributes to sustaining employment.
  

• Healthy Eating for Better Job Performance: This topic covers eating for energy and wellness. How to recognize the signs that trigger poor nutritional choices and appropriate ways to deal with these triggers will be addressed. Additionally, clients will learn the important life skill of making better nutritional choices through an understanding of healthy eating guidelines and weight management techniques.
  

• Temperaments in the Workplace: This topic utilizes the True Colors career self-assessment tool to identify individual strengths and qualities in a fun and lighthearted way. It encourages clients to recognize, understand, and appreciate the differences in others and how these differences impact relationships at work. It also increases individual self-knowledge in relationship to job choice, self-confidence, respect, dignity, esteem, worthiness, and character.
  

• Health Issues that Interfere with Job Performance and Attendance: This topic explores health issues that could interfere with job performance and attendance. This will ensure that clients are aware of common viruses, infections, diseases, and conditions and the preventative measures one can take to avoid and/or treat them. This topic will also address employer's expectations regarding attendance and absenteeism due to health-related issues.
  

• Conflict Resolution in the Workplace: This topic focuses on effective communication, what you see versus what you get, blocks to listening, techniques for active listening, and role-playing activities that can be used constructively to assist any difficult situation in the workplace.
  

• The Working Parent: This topic covers the stresses of parenting and clarifies the differences between discipline and punishment. Additionally, it provides solutions for overcoming obstacles such as being a single parent, childcare, and behavior problems that parents may face.
  

• Safety and Prevention of Personal and Workplace Violence: This topic outlines ways to identify and handle potentially dangerous or abusive situations that interfere with work. Domestic violence, the cycle of violence, obstacles to leaving a domestically violent relationship, warning signs, safety plans, effects on children, and myths versus facts about domestic violence will be reviewed. Additionally, examples of workplace violence will be discussed. Clients will gain an understanding of how violence or harassment in or brought to the workplace will interfere with job performance and is cause for dismissal from the job.