Venice Family Clinic’s street medicine team is transforming the way it treats homeless individuals by bringing a mobile clinic van straight to them.
Many challenges come with providing healthcare to homeless individuals: they may be mistrustful, unable to travel to a clinic, or unable to maintain their treatments due to mental health conditions. By bringing medical treatment directly to where people are living on the streets or in shelters, healthcare workers are able to serve a much broader portion of the homeless population.
These medical interventions help stabilize the mental and physical health of unhoused individuals and make it easier for them to transition into housing solutions.
The Northern Wyoming Community College District has announced the eight 2020 Excellence Award winners at Sheridan and Gillette colleges.
Each year, one classified employee, professional employee, faculty member and student at each college is selected based on nominations by their peers. All were honored during a virtual awards ceremony on Jan. 11.
Recipients at Sheridan College this year are Sarah Aksamit, administrative coordinator for the vice president of student affairs; Ryan Shippy, digital strategist; Jill McGraw, business faculty member; and Keegan Jenness, a secondary education and business major.
Sarah Aksamit (Courtesy photo)
Honorees at Gillette College are Jessi Maurer, coordinator of academic affairs; Grace Henderson, assistant director of campus life and housing; Liz Hunter, engineering and physics faculty member; and Zachary Milliron (MILL-iron), an elementary education student.
Two units to be built on the site have already sold, although he would not disclose at what price. There had also been quite a bit of interest in the unit that has not sold, Coll said. He said the unit’s price would be more than $2m. He said the company was not in a hurry to sell at this stage since it wanted the unit to be complementary to the other two. “When we bought it, Draftline [Coll’s company] did a proposal for the units, and we ve been refining the designs for the clients. He had not expected the level of interest in the development to have been so strong, much of which had come from Timaru people.
The transformative power of holding the tension of opposites and learning to live with contradiction.
The Covid-19 pandemic has crammed a great deal of pressure into our lives, but it has also created an unprecedented opportunity to revisit our own assumptions about how we should live and work. Managers and leaders have had to balance optimism with realism and find new ways to connect although they manage their employees from afar.
These exaggerated tensions and pressures can be a double-edged sword. Research suggests that whether people
struggle or thrive with tensions, or competing demands, largely depends on their mindset. With a paradox mindset, tensions can be transformed into new ideas and improved performance. The paradox mindset suggests an alternative perspective, one in which we accept and learn to live with the tensions associated with competing demands.