emmy is an EM wellness newsletter founded March 2022. Over the past few years emergency managers have experienced a lot on the job and while there’s more talk about self-care and stress management a lot of traditional workplace wellness programming doesn’t work for EM. For example, being told to check your phone less? Yeah, that doesn’t really work well when you’re on call. So after planning my own wellness content for an EM office I wanted to put something larger together for the field as a whole. Each month weekly newsletter go out exploring a different facet of wellness because it isn’t just meditation and weight loss challenges (we at emmy are very opposed to the later, and understand the first doesn’t necessarily work for everyone.) Please subscribe to get wellness content, participate in events and virtual programming, as well as find other resources for upping your proactive self-care game. - Sami
We talk a lot about resiliency as emergency managers. Whether we’re talking about supply chains, whole communities, or even our staff / employees - it gets thrown around a lot but its meaning can be pretty vague.
We as emergency managers shouldn’t focus on resiliency as our end goal. We need to build up our internal communities of care, the well-being both physically and mentally of all employees, and plans for staff-support in any blue or grey sky scenario.
Covid-19 fundamentally shifted emergency response and taxed EM offices and partners when mutual aid no longer became an option. We need to take lessons learned and recognize the trauma we have gone through in order to improve how we handle ourselves and ultimately how we do our jobs.
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