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Managing stress

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April is National Stress Prevention Month. Learn ways to manage stress that can benefit you all year round. You may not be able to fully eradicate stress from your life, but you can lessen it.

Hello Brain? It's Your Gut Talking (MAP)

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You know the importance of continuing education and staying up-to-date on the latest wellness and therapeutic techniques. That's why the UFT Member Assistance Program invites you to join our upcoming professional development workshops this spring. As science advances, we learn more and more about the connection between the integrity of our digestive system on mood and mental health. These are important to understand as clinicians working with our students. The food we eat and how we feel has an effect on our minds and choices. Dr. Pina LoGiudice, ND, LAc will discuss the digestive system, leaky gut and the microbiome and its impacts on our brain.

Wellness Basics (MAP)

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You know the importance of continuing education and staying up-to-date on the latest wellness and therapeutic techniques. That's why the UFT Member Assistance Program invites you to join our upcoming professional development workshops this spring. This 2-hour session will be an introduction to the basics of Wellness. Let us move forward with knowledge geared towards the foundations needed for health optimization. Dr. Pina LoGiudice, ND, LAc, who’s a naturopathic physician for over 20 years will share her experience on what has worked.

Sweet Dreams: Harnessing Natural Medicine for Better Sleep Wellness (MAP)

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You know the importance of continuing education and staying up-to-date on the latest wellness and therapeutic techniques. That's why the UFT Member Assistance Program invites you to join our upcoming professional development workshops this spring. In this workshop, participants will discuss many natural sleep solutions that can help give us deeper more restorative sleep without side effects.

Fostering healthy ties

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Healthy social relationships are a key to greater happiness and life satisfaction. Here are ways to cultivate strong social ties.

Member Assistance Program

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Established in 2009, the UFT’s Member Assistance Program (MAP) provides tools for coping with the full range of life’s challenges, such as work-related stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, bereavement and substance use disorders. 


New year, new you

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If you want your mental health resolutions for the new year to last, focus on self-care and get specific. Experts have identified eight dimensions of wellness, which provide a great framework for creating achievable resolutions.

Gratitude is good for you

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Counting your blessings isn’t just a nice thing your elders probably advised you to do. It’s also a key practice for both mental and physical health.

Coping with grief

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For those coping with grief, the shift from fall to winter can be especially hard, as the holiday season lies ahead and our thoughts turn to people, things and experiences that are missing. Mental health professionals with the UFT's Member Assistance...

Get mental health support services 24/7

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UFT members and their families now have access to mental health support by phone, text or online chat, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The new mental health helpline, an initiative of the union’s Member Assistance Program (MAP), is staffed by...