Home and Work Life Resources

Resilience and Social Connectedness

Check out some ways to strengthen resilience and create connections:

Resilience for parents & teachers: View tips
Resilience for teens: Tips to help your teen
Your Plan for Health: Join a group challenge
Cultivating Connection: Tips to nurture connections while distancing
Zoom Exhaustion: View 5 minute webinar

Gabbe Health & Wellness and OSU Center for Integrative Medicine

Improving the Ergonomics of Work-From-Home Reality: Tips from the Experts

Have you found yourself hunched over your laptop while sitting on the couch? Or noticing some new discomfort in your back and neck because your work-from-home station is not very ergonomic? Check out this 30 minute video designed to help you improve your posture while working from home (or anywhere).

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The checklist mentioned in the video can be found here.
Calming Yoga-Based Movement

This series offers gentle yoga-based practices aimed to build resilience and stamina for living with the changes COVID-19 has brought to all of our lives. No experience necessary. All are welcome and encouraged. Each week we used simple movement, breath work, and meditation focusing on effects such as exhaustion, insomnia, isolation, overstimulation, self-care, grief and anxiety.

Exhaustion and its Effects on us: Calming Yoga-Based Movement

Anxiety: Calming Yoga-Based Movement

Isolation and Overstimulation: Calming Yoga-Based Movement

Self-care: Calming Yoga-Based Movement

Constant Change: Calming Yoga-Based Movement

Fatigue: Calming Yoga-Based Movement

Grief: Calming Yoga-Based Movement

The Ohio State Employee Assistance Program

Identity Theft Protection & Recovery

Complimentary phone consultation with a Fraud Resolution Specialist to assist with restoring identity and credit standing and free Identity Theft monitoring.

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Adult/Elder/Caregiver Consultation Services

Resources include consultation on caregiving, insurance, and end-of-life decisions, referrals for in-home care, assisted living, skilled nursing care, and more.

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Bright Horizons

Assistance finding childcare centers and screening for childcare providers. Services also available to remotely engage with your children if you are working from home.

https://clients.brighthorizons.com/ohiostate

Buckeye Wellness Fitness Classes

Buckeye Wellness is proud to offer free educational programs and fitness classes held throughout the university. Our programs and classes are open to all Ohio State faculty, staff, students, alumni, and family members of faculty and staff. We have certified instructors in Zumba, STRONG by Zumba, yoga, and LaBlast fitness classes who hold classes throughout the week.

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Your Plan for Health (YP4H)

Your Plan for Health (YP4H) provides benefit-eligible faculty/staff and their enrolled spouses with the tools and resources for living a healthy life.

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Social Engagement in the Age of Social Distancing Webinar

Bailey DeBlasis, LISW-S and Claire Sutter, LISW from The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health provide a 20-minute webinar with ideas, tips and information on how to stay connected and engaged socially while remaining physically distant.

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