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Good Health for Life Entrepreneurship Center |
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Good Health for Life is a nonprofit entrepreneurship center and economic research, education and advocacy foundation that focuses on helping get cancer survivors back to work. Good Health for Life’s mission is to help cancer survivors discover their passions for living through work — to enhance the quality and length of their survival and to minimize or stabilize adverse effects experienced during cancer survivorship — to live self-sufficiently in healthy communities. We are dedicated to efforts that oppose the marginalization of cancer survivors from the workplace and deem it unacceptable that businesses should squander the more than 10 million American cancer survivors and those that will be diagnosed in the coming years. Cancer will affect one in three Americans during their lifetimes. While medical care is essential for cancer survivors, often it is just as important for these people to maintain as normal a life as possible to speed recovery and maintain a positive quality of life. But once people are treated and living longer, where is the investment in getting them back to work by overcoming personal, financial and institutional biases? Where are the advocates educating business on the value of working with these exceptional people? Good Health for Life’s Transitions to Work Program helps cancer survivors explore career options, set achievable goals, and develop successful job-seeking strategies. Transitions to Work, through Good Health for Life’s Entrepreneurial Center, offers the following workshops and individual coaching programs: 1. Work/Life Integration – Personal Effectiveness/Self-Esteem Workshop Discover how integrative life planning and the power of self-knowledge can better direct your career strategy. Develop a personal roadmap to bring increased meaning and enjoyment into your everyday life! Develop self-confidence to take risks to move forward personally and professionally. Your relationship with yourself influences all the other aspects of your life – your feelings and thoughts, your work, your health, your relationships, your parenting and your self-respect. This program develops your skills for making this life-long relationship a good one! 2. Career Focusing Workshop Discover who you really are and what comes naturally to you. For cancer survivors looking for the first job, next job, or a job change. Learn to break the cycle of job dissatisfaction and overcome the fear of making a job change. · See how personal values and needs can help you find job satisfaction · Determine key skills, interests and personality strengths · Explore resources/research tools to make better career choices · Write a goal statement to help stay on track during your job search 3. Individual Sessions – weekly job coaching by phone or email Concepts focused on are: · Life/Work Balance – Explore your motivations for working and the importance of health balance. · Purpose and Passion - Learn elements of a lifestyle rich in these. · Transferable Skills and Strengths - Identify those that naturally define you. · Career Anchors - Discover yours through values clarification. · Personal Interests and Style -Assess yours and tap into what you enjoy. · Personal Career Profile - Develop this through setting goals, self-expression and journaling. · Change Moving Past Fear! - Objectively look at what blocks us from taking risks to pursue our dreams. A. Job Search Strategies Meet one-on-one with a professional coach, discuss your job search concerns and create a personalized action plan that will help you achieve your goals. B. Job Skills · Weekly topics discussed on issues affecting your job search, review job leads, and receive brief critique of resume. · Interviewing Essentials · Wonders of the Internet · Resume Clinic · Learn new ways to "lighten up," maintain productivity, and accept that "good enough" is really good enough! · Brain Storming/ Value Clarification · Workplace Issues/Prioritizing Needs · Motivation/Stay on Track
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Good Health for Life’s Transition to Work Program helps cancer survivors explore career options, set achievable goals, and develop successful job-seeking strategies. |
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Transitions to Work Programs ...discover new ways to work and live! |
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530.622.9118 530.622.9119—Fax info@ghfl.org |
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