Black Faculty, Staff and Administration Association (BFSAA) serves as a change agent and collective voice promoting equity for Black faculty, staff, administrators, and students to pursue educational, scholastic, leadership, social, and professional development opportunities across all university environments and units.

The Coalition of Racial and Ethnic Minorities (CoREM) is comprised of four historically underrepresented racial and ethnic faculty, staff and administrator organizations at Michigan State University. The organizations have been advocates for and supportive of diversity, equity, and inclusion for more than 30 years.

Fathers, guardians, and anyone interested in fatherhood are welcome to learn how COVID has impacted gender roles on the home front and the research on the changing role of fathers in the workplace. Speaker Dr. Brad Harrington’s research and teaching focus on career management and work-life integration, the changing role of fathers, and contemporary workforce management strategies.

However the stork lands on your door, adding a child to your life is a big adjustment. We’ve compiled upcoming programming and long-standing resources to help you along your journey.

Discusses ten benefits of remote working, as well as providing real-world examples for these benefits. Some of the benefits included a better work-life balance, meaning workers are allowed much more flexibility with their work. Another benefit discussed was location independence, meaning one isn’t limited only to their geographical area for work. This fact also plays into the improved inclusivity that comes with working remotely.

This section is intended to help organizations assess where they currently stand in terms of workplace climate. Its goal is to help you to reduce workplace bullying and harassment and to create and sustain a respectful workplace climate. While this guide can stand as a template, you will need to customize the approach for your particular circumstances.

When it comes to work, the way to find fulfillment may be to change how you work, not what you do. Every one of us has our own ideas, natural strengths, and a desire to learn new things. Job crafting — a mindset and skill — allows you to shape and redefine your current role in ways that can foster job satisfaction, increased engagement, greater resilience, and thriving at work.

Mentorship is a multi-faceted relationship with many benefits for the mentee: advice, sponsorship, extended network, and encouragement. Finding a single mentor that can aid in all facets of your career is unlikely, which is why mentoring networks can be a game-changer. To identify the types of mentors that you need for your network, answer these four questions.

Workplace wellness programs have many benefits for employees and employers alike. Some of the key benefits are lower healthcare costs, reduced absenteeism, and increased morale, which lead to higher employee retention and higher employee satisfaction (University of Michigan, 2001).

Learn tangible skills, tools, and strategies to promote personal and community-wide self-care and wellbeing. This workshop will help participants understand COVID-19 collective trauma, build strategies to minimize burnout, and move the needle on critical mental health competencies.

Participants will be empowered to:

Although lactation is natural, it is a learned skill. This four-part program is designed to give pregnant parents and their partners information on preparing to breast/chest feed and strategies for continuing to breast/chest feed upon returning to work.

Presenter: Natosha Sage-El, Expectant Parents Organization

Session speaker Dr. Farha Abbasi works relentlessly and tirelessly towards one goal: Learning to coexist and go beyond our differences to reach the common point of peace and prosperity. Abbasi is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Michigan State University and a core faculty member of the Muslim Studies Program. Her areas of interest are cultural psychiatry and teaching medical students how to provide culturally appropriate care to Muslim patients. She is the founding director of the Annual Muslim Mental Health Conference. She is also the managing editor of the Journal of Muslim Mental Health and Director of the Muslim Mental Health Consortium, Michigan State University. She has served on many boards and committees including Council on Minority Mental Health and Health Disparities American Psychiatric Association. She currently chairs the Mental Health Task Force for the Mayor of Lansing, Michigan.

Creating Confident Caregivers is a six-week class held online (using Zoom) for family caregivers to ease difficult emotions by increasing knowledge. During the class, you will learn about dementia, its impact on behavior, how to set realistic goals, and much more.

Young children learning from screens – what works and what doesn’t? In this session, we’ll talk about what we know from research about children and screens and how caregivers can use that information to support their children’s learning.

This session is intended to equip participants on behalf of themselves, their families and their communities with a basic understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and other common types of dementia, and to provide an overview of the “Six Pillars of Brain Health” as identified by the Global Council on Brain Health. We will offer resource information for families and individuals living with dementia in Michigan, and describe specific steps that everyone can take – regardless of age – to optimize their chances of maintaining their cognitive health.