Thursday Morning Skill Builders

The Family Caregiver Navigator is a project of the Idaho Caregiver Alliance
Three of the Project’s team:Tiffany Robb, Marilyn Borup Sword, Destinie Triplett

Approximately half of the workforce in the US are women, many employed in full-time positions. Their work responsibilities are often coupled with significant family caregiving tasks, whether it be caring for a child or an adult child with a unique health care need or disability, or an aging spouse or parent. In Idaho, there are over 300,000 unpaid family caregivers including those of diverse backgrounds and cultures, and the majority are employed outside the home. Nationally, 60% of caregivers admit their professional life has been negatively impacted by their caregiving duties (AARP, 2018). Employees want to stay employed and a lack of employee resources suitable for caregiver needs can cost the employer. Where can caregivers turn for help? In this session, we will showcase a researched-backed pilot project that identifies caregiver stress points and creates a plan with resources and services to address their specific needs. These supports are a stepping-stone to building a caring culture within the workplace – through the empowerment of employee caregivers and the use of resources to manage stress, employees and their families will experience fewer negative health outcomes that often poorly impact their professional lives.

Having “a conversation” with someone can be a challenge in the best of times. And when most of us are stressed and tired, facing painful, polarizing issues about racial justice, public health, school openings and politics, it can feel downright dangerous. But there’s a high emotional cost to unresolved conversations, and often more concrete consequences too. This session will guide you through Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication model; then we’ll put your skills into practice by working through some common tough issues together.

“Decolonizing Leadership: A Storyteller’s Guide to Changing the World” – in this workshop we explore how leadership is defined in Indigenous communities and we’ll discover how storytelling plays a role in nurturing those leaders.  The same principles can be applied across industries and organizations to empower ourselves, our communities, and our collective society.  In these uncertain and rapidly changing times we have to revolutionize the way we lead and build community.  During this session participants will be able to:

1. Connect with their own stories of success and empowerment
2. Understand how best to create space for the stories of others
3. Have tools for service leadership through storytelling

Dealing with finances can be overwhelming. Whether we are tackling debt, saving for a current goal, trying to reach retirement, or anywhere in between, we can gather a laundry list of items to accomplish. In this Skill Builder, we will journey together through many financial decisions. With any journey, we must have a current location and a destination, and then we must determine our path to get from A to B. The first step from A to B is your next right step. Join us on this journey to determine your next right step wherever you are.