BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.14//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:56-845@lerachapter.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T133000 DTSTAMP:20260422T203857Z URL:https://lerachapter.org/dclera/events/supportive-supervision/ SUMMARY:Supportive Supervision: The Role of Managers in Cultivating Healthy Workplaces DESCRIPTION:Supportive Supervision:\nThe Role of Managers in Cultivating He althy Workplaces\nProgram\nSupportive supervision is central to healthy wo rkplace initiatives. This session will share an occupational health and we llness framework called Total Worker Health (TWH) and focus on the role of supervisors and managers in workplace health and wellbeing. Specifically\ , the session will highlight two evidence-based trainings informed by the TWH approach that supervisors and managers can utilize to support employee s in the areas of work-family balance and mental health. The trainings wer e developed by faculty at the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Scie nces and are currently being implemented in public and private organizatio ns in Oregon and beyond.\n\nDate and Time\nFriday\, May 8\, 2026 from 12:0 0 pm to 1:30 pm\n\nLocation\nFREE Virtual Meeting via ZOOM.\nZoom link wil l be emailed to attendees after registration.\n\nSpeaker\nLeslie Hammer\, Ph.D\n\nLeslie Hammer\, Ph.D. is an occupational health psychologist with over 30 years of experience consulting and researching workplace mental we llbeing in a variety of industries including the military\, academia\, hig h tech\, healthcare\, construction\, and grocery\, to name a few. Hammer i s Director of the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center\, a Total Worker Health ® center of excellence. She is also Associate Director for Applied Resear ch in the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences\, Oregon Health &\; Science University. She is a leading international expert on promo ting and protecting workplace mental wellbeing\, safety\, social connected ness at work\, resilience\, and the prevention of occupational stress. She has extensive experience designing\, implementing\, and evaluating worksi te wellbeing programs and evidence-based trainings for leaders\, managers and supervisors that increase resilience\, engagement\, health and wellbei ng that impact organizational outcomes such as turnover\, productivity and absenteeism.\nShe has published over 100 peer-reviewed research articles\ , and her research has been cited in outlets such as Newsweek\, Mashable\, HR Brew\, Safey+Health\, and HealthCentral. She is the author of Working Couples Caring for Children and Aging Parents: Effects on Work and Well-Be ing (2008). Most recently\, Hammer was invited to be a speaker at the inau gural Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit 2025\, where the brightest HR an d executive minds from Fortune 500 companies\, startups\, investment firms \, government\, academia\, and culture-making sectors will converge in May 2025.\n\nRegistration\nwww.lerachapter.org/dclera/events/supportive-super vision/\n**Zoom Link will be emailed to you after registration.**\n\n\n\nT his website for DC LERA is not the same as the website for national LERA\, and you'll need to create a profile here if you haven't been to the DC LE RA website (https://www.lerachapter.org/dclera) before. Don't worry\; it's easy and you can do that at the same time that you register for the event and submit your booking.\nIf you are returning to this website\, please l ogin first. Your information will be pre-populated when you are logged in. \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lerachapter.org/dclera/wp-content/upload s/sites/56/2026/03/DCLERA5-8-26Featured2.png CATEGORIES:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR