WVU in the News: Recruitment open for Mindfulness-Based Resilience Training workshops

West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, in partnership with West Virginia University’s Office of Health Affairs, Marshall University, and Mindful Badge training facilitators, are recruiting 200 frontline health workers and law enforcement personnel from West Virginia to participate in Mindfulness-Based Resilience Training (MBRT). The two-day training will help to improve mental and physical well-being along with preventing compassion fatigue, burnout, and attrition.

“Burnout is a well-documented negative occupational consequence among frontline health workers and law enforcement personnel, placing these workers at physical and mental health risk”, said Dr. Keith Zullig, principal investigator of the project and professor and chair at WVU School of Public Health.

Read the full story from The West Virginia Daily News.