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For You Haiti Provides Education and Life-Saving Medical Care to Residents of La Gonave

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She flew to Port au Prince and took a boat to the island of La Gonave, which is home to 130,000 people living with extremely limited medical care. She also met a baby with Treacher Collins syndrome who needed urgent medical care. They added more staff, offices and a medical clinic.

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Is It Really Possible to Achieve Work-life Balance?

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a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and a Zen priest. But one decades-long study explores on how people try to make it work and some of the decisions they regret in this area. To find out more, we spoke to Robert Waldinger, M.D., That’s a choice.

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How Company Leaders Can Offer Caregiver Support to an Employee

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“Even if an organization doesn’t have a lot of working caregivers, everyone will be touched by a caregiving situation just because of the demographics in our country,” says Denise Brown, founder of The Caregiving Years Training Academy. Provide emotional intelligence training Emotional intelligence isn’t a skill many people are taught.

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The Future of Flex Spaces: Co-everything

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Now, one of the most effective ways of growing a personal training business is to develop a following on social media. And while they may not need a gym to attract clients anymore, they still need a space where they can train clients and create content.

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Global Healthcare Worker Shortage Is Redefining International Recruitment Policies

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What’s going on: A worldwide shortage of healthcare workers is leading to global competition for medical staff, according to The Wall Street Journal. Why it matters: The healthcare worker shortage is contributing to the unequal distribution of medical talent worldwide.

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Mental Health First Aid: The Critical Skill Set Every Workplace Needs

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It’s standard practice to have multiple employees in every organization qualified in first aid so they can attend to physical injuries until professional medical help arrives. The need for this (and the gap in the market for training) resulted in the development of an organizational body, called Mental Health First Aid (MHFA).

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5 Endurance Lessons for Succeeding at the Solopreneur Life

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It was part of my training for an adventure race, and I was working on getting comfortable being uncomfortable because I knew that was a necessary ability for the race. I trained in the snow and ran several times in the rain to be ready for either… and it turned out to be an unseasonably warm and sun-kissed day.

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