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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Staff wellness initiatives and professional development programs
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Commissioner Maginley-Liddie details the department's focus on staff support, wellness, and professional growth opportunities. These initiatives aim to enhance staff retention and improve the overall work environment for both uniformed and non-uniformed personnel.
- Professional growth opportunities are being offered to enhance soft skills and leadership development
- The department is partnering with vendors to provide training on topics such as resiliency, mental health awareness, and suicide prevention
- Wellness centers are being opened throughout the commands to provide spaces for staff relaxation and mindfulness
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
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For us, it is extremely important to focus on building up our uniform staff and providing them with the opportunities for support, wellness, and growth.
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In the last year, uniformed and non uniformed staff participated in professional growth opportunities to enhance soft skills and leadership development to ensure we have a deep bench of leaders to sustain the agency well into the future.
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We have also been focused on bolstering our dedicated correction assistance response for employee staff who regularly provide a holistic range of support and resources for all members of service.
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This calendar year, we are partnering with a vendor to provide training and professional development for our care staff on topics such as resiliency, mindfulness strategies, mental health awareness, and suicide prevention, and more.
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But training is just one tool we are wielding in our effort to enhance staff wellness and retention.
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We are also opening wellness centers and other spaces for staff to relax and practice mindfulness throughout the commands.
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We opened the first wellness center for staff at the Otis Bantam Correctional Center, as well as a staff wellness center in our Brooklyn Court facility, and plan to open more centers in the months to come.
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Later this month, we will swear in over a hundred new correction officers.
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These recruits have undergone comprehensive training to ensure they are prepared to serve with professionalism and integrity as stewards of public safety.
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We are excited to welcome the next generation of public servants to the Boldest family, and we are intent on raising them up to be the leaders within our jails and our city.
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The staff in our facilities work long hours in difficult and stressful conditions.
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Our actions as leaders must demonstrate to them our appreciation and genuine care.
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Providing these resources shows our staff that for all they do to protect the well-being of others, their well-being matters to us.
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When we invest in our staff and give them what they need, they will show up as their best selves and help nurture a culture of service that creates better jails and better outcomes for those in our care.