Safe Person Seven Promises spreads to GE Healthcare, Cutco
07/18/19 02:51:pm
Sarah Reed, PhD, program and evaluation manager for InHealth, recently offered a series of training sessions to GE Healthcare via webinar. GE Healthcare locations then began displaying the Safe Person decal and offering them to staff.
“We were flooded with decal requests from all across the country,” Dr. Reed says. “It was a great to see a large, global organization place emphasis on employee health and well-being.”
Since then, Dr. Reed has consulted with GE Healthcare in Waukesha, which is developing a transition plan for employees returning to work after a behavioral health leave.
Safe Person programming will also receive funds this summer from young adults selling Cutco knives. According to Dr. Reed, Cutco Knives’ area director wanted to engage his team of summer salespeople in their personal growth. To do this, he decided to partner with Rogers InHealth and encouraged his team to donate some of their earnings to support Safe Person programming.
“Cutco is very much interested in growing youth and young adult leaders,” she says. “The decals offer a means for peers to strengthen their own support networks. He’s also someone who believes strongly in authenticity, and hopes the decals make it easier for people to share their authentic selves, challenges, and needs with others who can listen and respond compassionately.”
Dr. Reed says that more than 30,000 Safe Person decals, which can be ordered here, have been distributed across Wisconsin and in a dozen other states.
“Requests from such divergent organizations attest to the value people see in our programs, the ease with which our programs are meaningfully translated for such diverse groups, and the power that something so seemingly simplistic as a decal can have.”
Seven Promises training has become one of InHealth’s and WISE’s core programming. Over the next couple of months, Dr. Reed will conduct more trainings at conferences, at a professional development day for school faculty, and for student mental health advocates at UW-Madison.
