Whether it is attempting to balance the new "work from home" environment, caretaking responsibilities, coping with fear and isolation, grieving the loss of a job, or financial hardship, COVID-19 has significantly impacted the lives of employees around the world. According to Mental Health America's 2021 State of Mental Health Report, there has been a 93% increase in the number of people looking for help with anxiety and depression. Employers at an increasing rate have shared their concerns about the well-being of their employees and the negative effects generated by the pandemic. Employers are stepping up and trying to find innovative ways to address mental health beyond a standard Employee Assistance Program. The conversation starts with the importance of addressing all dimensions of well-being and not in isolation along with acknowledging the impact the workplace culture and social determinants of health have on overall workforce health.

SHRM/HRCI Learning Objectives:

At the end of the session, attendees will be able to:

• Identify why addressing total well-being at the workplace is important to employers
• List best practice strategies to address mental health in the workplace
• Summarize how workplace culture and Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) can positively impact employee engagement and health outcomes

Speakers: LAURA M. MOORE, CWPC

Laura Moore, CWPC serves as Health Management Consultant for Marsh & McLennan Agency.  In this role, Ms. Moore is responsible for partnering with clients and their respective account teams by evaluating available data to identify behaviors that influence or compromise employee’s health; identify factors that inspire learning or those that hinder or foster the client’s total population health through the process of health education and well-being programs.

Ms. Moore has 20 years with employee health and benefits experience. This includes benefits and well-being management and working for Cigna Healthcare as a Senior Engagement Consultant in their Mid-Atlantic Region where she served as a health improvement subject matter expert. In her experience she collaborated with clients in analyzing their benefit plan(s) utilization data to address client specific well-being needs, creating strategic health improvement plans and spearheading customer engagement initiatives.

KATE VALETTE, RN, BSN

Kate Valette is a clinical consultant for Marsh & McLennan Agency’s Planning & Analytics for Total Health (PATH) program. In this role, Kate collaboratively supports employers to develop and execute strategies to control health care costs, improve health outcomes and promote employee engagement through analytics-based state of the art innovations and reporting.

Kate has more than 20 years of direct patient care experience as a registered nurse in the Emergency Department, Burn and Surgical ICU, and Acute Hemodialysis Specialty Team prior to moving to case management and the corporate setting.

During her tenure with a government contractor, she led clinical and non-clinical team members within a Total Rewards department. Her responsibilities were the management of the following programs; wellness, in-house disability, leave administration, workers compensation, reasonable accommodation requests, and clinical management for populations ranging from 5,000 to 20,000 employees. Additional clinical experiences were quality management, utilization review, and client consultation with employee health and benefits.

She earned an Associate’s Degree in Nursing from SUNY Morrisville and Bachelors in Science in Nursing from the University of Phoenix. She is a Legal Nurse Consultant and an active member of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics policy committee.

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• 9:00am - Webcast opens with Coffee with Curtis
• 9:20am - Chapter Announcements
• 9:30am - Presentation begins