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This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness blog looks at an upstream vs downstream approach to Mental Health—to Springsteen’s new song addressing the chaos in MN—to the benefits of volunteering…especially for retirees. Focal Point: This week I wish to share with our readers the progress being made with setting up the STL Building Trades Wellness Coalition. As noted, in an earlier blog, we held our first official collaborative meeting for 2026 on Jan 28 th at the Laborers L

As we near the first month of 2026, this week’s edition of our Worker Wellness blog looks at how Philly is shifting strategies in their response to the everchanging opioids crisis—to how an explosion of sports betting venues and formats are negatively impacting people, families, workplaces, and communities—to how the EEOC is withdrawing their previous ‘harassment’ guidance. This week I wish to ask readers to pause and reflect on how history tends repeats itself. Just yesterd

Welcome to Week 3 of 2026! This edition of our Worker Wellness blog looks at how the negative impact of sports gambling is damaging the image of college basketball—to the “DC Whiplash” sustained by many of our agencies providing much-needed mental health and substance misuse services within a recent 48-hour period—to how govt policies have caused generational damage to our Native American tribes and what one is doing in response. This week I wish to highlight a few trainings

Welcome to Week 2 of 2026! This edition of our Worker Wellness blog looks at yet another suicide death in the US construction industry—to a variety of tips on improving your health and reducing dementia risks—to the rising need for people who want to ‘work with their hands’. This week I would like to focus on what the STL Building Trades Wellness Coalition is planning for 2026. As many of you may know, this effort began in Q3-2025. Wherein, we held 3 collaborative meetings. I

As we begin the new year, this edition of our Worker Wellness blog looks into forming and sustaining new habits from a different approach to mindfulness meditation—to eating healthy—to exercising. This week I would like to encourage those of you wishing to expand your knowledge about workplace Mental Health issues to review the array of upcoming webinars in the last section below. To be sure, I have participated in a number of Mindspring’s (Mental Health Alliance) webinars in