Wellbeing Works Florida Announces 2020 Winners
Greetings from your Wellbeing Director!
My name is Jeri Dembrak and it is my honor and privilege to serve as the 2020 Wellbeing Director. As many of you know, we closed participation in our Tobacco Free Florida & Wellbeing Works Florida (WWF) toolkit on April 30th of this year with winners achieving Gold, and Silver status. Thanks to the incredible sponsorship and partnership with Tobacco Free Florida’s State Director, Robert Ostbye; we are happy to announce our winners:
GOLD WINNERS
1. Linda Duffy, Broward County Government, HRABC
2. Christine Harris, CVS Health, GOSHRM
3. Stephanie Norment, Emerald Coast Utilities Authority, GPSHRM
4. Claudia McCaskill, City of Port St. Lucie, St. Lucie SHRM
5. Angela Deem, Sarasota County Government, Sarasota-Manatee SHRM
6. Alison Kennedy, Florida Presbyterian Homes, Mid-Florida SHRM
7. Tamara Williamson, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, St. Lucie SHRM
8. Zedra Thiam, Selene Finance, SHRM Jacksonville
SILVER WINNERS
1. Jan Foselli, City of Stuart, HRAMC
2. Hewana Fauntleroy, St. Lucie County Fire District Employees Health & Welfare Trust, St. Lucie SHRM
We also updated our Empowering a Culture of Wellbeing program just before COVID-19 to include information on supporting a remote workforce! Helping leaders to manage their emotions and encouraging employees to stay healthy while being quarantined, yet productive at home, is more important now than ever. We are also developing the Eight Dimensions of Wellness program for which we plan to roll out individual presentations for each virtually in 2021. Our goal is to develop a library of virtual presentations that would be available to all chapters for programming as plug and play!
Despite our new VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) new normal in the year of COVID-19, we have presented at five county chapter meetings. We would love to recognize and honor Rachel Baker who not only was an incredible contributor to the overall presentation but also one of our sponsors, a secondary ambassador but who also kicked off and presented at three chapters: Suncoast on May 13th, Sarasota-Manatee on May 15th and Tampa SHRM on July 15th.
I also presented at Bay County SHRM on May 28th, South Brevard SHRM on July 22nd and will be presenting at SHRM Emerald Coast on August 19th. Additional presentations are scheduled for Greater Pensacola SHRM on Sept. 16th and Palm Beach SHRM for Sept. 24th with the hope of adding Broward and Miami for a tri-county event in lieu of our Brightline Tri-County that was cancelled due to COVID-19 this year.
Please note that the presentation carries 1.5 SHRM PDUs and 1.5 HRCI business credits and is budgeted for about 1 ½ or 2 hours depending on questions. We encourage all chapters to send me an email at jeri.dembrak@hrflorida.org and either myself, an executive committee member or ambassador can present at your chapter. Our goal is to serve the community by providing resources that all Florida SHRM members can take back to the office and consider implementing in their organizations.
We would also like to recognize Heather Deyrieux for her amazing precognitive abilities and foresight as a leader in predicting that the state of Florida will be among the top 5 states for wellbeing in 2030 according to the Florida Foundation and Florida Chamber of Commerce!
Finally, we are continually grateful for the outstanding support that we receive from Tobacco Free Florida as well as all our sponsors: Aetna, Norton/Lifelock and One Digital. We do have an informative presentation from Norton/Lifelock who presented at Human Resource Association of Broward County on Identity Theft that is currently approved for 1.5 SHRM PDUs and 1.5 HRCI business credits. This program was recorded. If any chapter would be interested in this presentation, please let me know and I will happily connect you!
I am sorry that family obligations will prevent me from attending this year’s HR Florida conference, but I do look forward to seeing everyone’s smiling faces in the crowds through the virtual platform.
I wish that you, your family, your friends and colleagues all stay healthy and well and continue to take great care of yourselves and each other and look forward to “seeing” you all at the quarterly meeting.
Kindest wishes always,
Jeri
