Staff Wellbeing

The Shawnee Mission School District is proud to offer its staff numerous opportunities to engage in programs designed to increase their overall health and wellbeing. Please explore the different avenues of Staff Wellbeing below.

Wellbeing Resources

Mental Health

Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Your EAP benefit through New Directions Behavioral Health is free of charge to all employees and their family members. The EAP benefit offers free counseling sessions (at this time, counseling sessions are telephonic, video or via text messaging), financial and legal services. Their website also hosts a wide array of resources. See below for flyers with more details of services offered.

Intro to EAP Work-life Services

Legal Services. Financial Services

Self-talk Tip Sheet

Johnson County Mental Health Center has expanded a free service to school staff members who work in Johnson County.
- JCMHC Front Line Support service is providing up to six sessions without a fee to those on the front lines of the pandemic. Any school district staff member interested in exploring services can email frontlinesupport@jocogov.org with your full name and preferred contact information. One of their staff members will follow-up with you within one business day to schedule an initial appointment.
- JCMHC also has dozens of free resources online at jocogov.org/frontlinesupport . These resources include weekly emails, a mental health podcast, support groups, phone apps (sleep, meditation, self-help), coping strategies and other mental health practices your can do from your home or office. As always, the 24/7 Crisis Line is available to anyone at 913-268-0156.
Behavioral Health Therapist at PriorityOne Health Center
- PriorityOne Health Center now offers behavioral health services with an onsite therapist. Counseling for individuals, couples and families is offered to help you improve your health. Whether you’re dealing with grief, stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, PTSD, eating disorders, substance abuse or self-image – PriorityOne Health Center therapist Jen Simon is here to listen. Full details HERE.
- Behavioral health at PriorityOne Health Center is available to the following individuals enrolled in the District’s health insurance plan:
  - Staff members and pre-Medicare retirees
  - Dependents, including spouses and children age 12+

Guide to Beating Burnout
Mental Health America - more mental health and COVID-19 resources HERE

Mindfulness Apps

Some developers are making the premium version of their apps FREE to teachers and other school staff!

Headspace
Stop, Breathe & Think
Calm: Meditations, sleep stories, movement exercises, journals, and music to help you look after yourself! The links below include their ~free~ resources, as well as their YouTube channel.
- Free resources
- Calm YouTube channel
Ten Percent Happier: free access for teachers and other essential workers
- Additionally, their always free Coronavirus Sanity Guide offering podcasts, guided meditations, etc.

Recipes & Nutrition

Naturally Slim Program: This program could help you reach your weight loss goals, break old habits, relieve stress & anxiety, and build your immunity! Click HERE for all the details.

SMSD Cookbook: Sharing Meals while Social Distancing

Click HERE to check out the cookbook we created in the summer of 2020 from recipes you all shared!

Recipes:

Fitness/Exercise

SMSD Fitness Center Webpage
Fit Tip Videos: from the Wellbeing Wednesday emails.
Move More! Making physical activity routine.
Down Dog: Exercise apps for Yoga, Yoga for Beginners, HIIT, Barre, 7-min Workouts, & Prenatal Yoga. Free until July 1st, 2021 for all students and teachers!
- To claim your free membership go to www.downdogapp.com (can also download the smartphone apps) and sign up using your smsd.org email address. Use the same sign-in for all of the apps- phone or web!
- Down Dog Meditation app free for ANYONE until July 1st, 2021.
FitOn: a HUGE variety of workouts that you can do anywhere.
- Their YouTube Channel has more free videos and at-home workouts
SMSD Wellness YouTube channel
- We have created playlists for different types of workouts and saved our favorite videos!
Bravo
- This resource helps you and/or your family create a health-conscious routine that keeps you active, eating healthy, managing stress & sleep, and entertaining your household.

Discounts for Staff

Financial Wellbeing

CPR Training

CPR/AED training. All classes are offered free to SMSD employees.

Where: Classes held at the Center for Academic Achievement, Room 2078 (enter at south doors).

Schedule: Link HERE

Registration: Sign up through the staff development page on the SMSD website, or call Mary Cooper at 913-993-8658.

June Self-Care Inspiration

First page of the PDF file: Self-CareInspirationCalJune2021

FACEBOOK

TWITTER

SMSD Aquatic Center
Staff 5K Walk & Run 2019

SMSD Aquatic Center

The new SMSD Aquatic Center is available to SMSD staff members at no cost.

Take advantage of this benefit by completing a membership form, in person, at the Aquatic Center. Be sure to bring your SMSD ID with you for proof of employment. Family members on the district medical plan are also eligible to use the Aquatic Center free of charge.

Visit the SMSD Aquatic Center's website for open lap lane times and current COVID-19 procedures.

Staff 5K Walk & Run 2019

Department Contact

Tammie McCoy

Wellbeing Coordinator/Fitness Center Manager

(913) 993-6494

Shawnee Mission School District is a 2020-2021 Platinum Level Healthy KC Certified organization.