[{"id":100,"date":"2025-11-13T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=100"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:17:04","slug":"mental-health-in-the-workspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2025\/11\/13\/mental-health-in-the-workspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health in the Workspace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/digital_detox-2000x2000-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" style=\"width:448px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/digital_detox-2000x2000-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/digital_detox-2000x2000-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/digital_detox-2000x2000-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/digital_detox-2000x2000-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/digital_detox-2000x2000-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/digital_detox-2000x2000-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nov 19, 2025 12:00 PM Eastern Time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join the Staff Senate\u2019s Accessibility and Inclusion Working Group (AaWIG) for a Lunch &amp; Learn focused on Mental Health in the Workplace. We are pleased to welcome Jennifer Kell, Executive Director of Robin\u2019s Hope and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 20 years of experience supporting individuals and organizations in trauma recovery, resilience-building, and mental wellness. Drawing on her extensive background, Jennifer will share practical tools and strategies to help us navigate and support mental health in the workplace\u2014both for ourselves and for those we work with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registration Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/vcu.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/nXHO4h3JR5y08TffLOBxhQ\">https:\/\/vcu.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/nXHO4h3JR5y08TffLOBxhQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 19, 2025 12:00 PM Eastern Time Please join the Staff Senate\u2019s Accessibility and Inclusion Working Group (AaWIG) for a Lunch &amp; Learn focused on Mental Health in the Workplace. We are pleased to welcome Jennifer Kell, Executive Director of Robin\u2019s Hope and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 20 years of experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoucements-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":96,"date":"2025-11-06T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=96"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:44:02","slug":"staff-senates-awards-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2025\/11\/06\/staff-senates-awards-of-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Senate\u2019s Awards of Excellence!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/Instagram-Version-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/Instagram-Version-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/Instagram-Version-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/Instagram-Version-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/11\/Instagram-Version.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>VCU Staff Senate is pleased to announce the 8th annual\u00a0<strong>Awards of Excellence<\/strong>!<br>These awards are the premier university awards\u00a0for VCU\/VCU Health staff members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s award categories are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Benchmark Award for New Employee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Professional Integrity Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Exceptional Customer Service Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Executive Award for Staff Advocacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Guiding Star Award for Career Achievement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Nominations are now open, and will be accepted through December 19, 2025.<br><br>Visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/staffsenate.vcu.edu\/initiatives\/awards-for-excellence\/__;!!JqxBPMk!gBpF4b0lbdz-0PRuV5MwdmA9WWpJeqFhhziNYYxTf-vQMTJBZiyKkNdnnGyE5nH4-sj9wUcxxk7tRAUEtT4$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Staff Senate Awards website<\/a>&nbsp;to learn more about the awards and to&nbsp;nominate a staff member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions or experience issues accessing the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/vcuportal.questionpro.com\/t\/Ach2mZ7OCR__;!!JqxBPMk!gBpF4b0lbdz-0PRuV5MwdmA9WWpJeqFhhziNYYxTf-vQMTJBZiyKkNdnnGyE5nH4-sj9wUcxxk7tSYDsIhk$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nomination form<\/a>, please contact us at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:staffsenate@vcu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">staffsenate@vcu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VCU Staff Senate is pleased to announce the 8th annual\u00a0Awards of Excellence!These awards are the premier university awards\u00a0for VCU\/VCU Health staff members. This year\u2019s award categories are: Nominations are now open, and will be accepted through December 19, 2025. Visit the&nbsp;Staff Senate Awards website&nbsp;to learn more about the awards and to&nbsp;nominate a staff member. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoucements-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":63,"date":"2025-10-06T14:49:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=63"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:59:23","slug":"unlocking-potential-vcus-campaign-for-the-future-public-launch-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2025\/10\/06\/unlocking-potential-vcus-campaign-for-the-future-public-launch-september-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking Potential: VCU\u2019s Campaign for the Future public launch, September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>On Sept. 18, 2025<\/strong>, VCU and VCU Health kicked off Unlocking Potential: VCU\u2019s Campaign for the Future, a record-breaking $1.838 billion initiative, the most significant fundraising effort in the enterprise\u2019s history. Several members of the Staff Senate Executive Team were honored to attend this event. Students from the Black Awakening Choir and Musical Theater performed, and several students who were recipients of scholarships were highlighted. We learned about amazing strides in health and innovation in patient care, were amazed by the amount of money that was already been raised to support our students and interacted with great projects from departments across VCU. Check out some images from our staff senate below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"800\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 800 \/ 800;\" width=\"800\" controls muted src=\"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1500\/2025\/10\/2025-DAR-Event-1-1.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 18, 2025, VCU and VCU Health kicked off Unlocking Potential: VCU\u2019s Campaign for the Future, a record-breaking $1.838 billion initiative, the most significant fundraising effort in the enterprise\u2019s history. Several members of the Staff Senate Executive Team were honored to attend this event. Students from the Black Awakening Choir and Musical Theater performed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2260,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,11,9],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-recaps","tag-dar","tag-event-recaps","tag-unlocking-potential"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":44,"date":"2025-10-06T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=44"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:00:05","slug":"qatar-week-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2025\/10\/06\/qatar-week-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Week 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dates:<\/strong> <strong>Monday, October 13 \u2013 Wednesday, October 15, 2025<\/strong><br><strong>Location:<\/strong> Various locations across VCU Richmond campus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Qatar Week<\/strong> is back, celebrating creative collaboration between VCUarts Richmond and VCUarts Qatar! Qatar Week is an annual series of events that takes place on the VCUarts Richmond campus every October.&nbsp; Organized by VCUarts Qatar and VCUarts Richmond, the week showcases the Qatar campus and its students, alumni, faculty and researchers.&nbsp; Qatar Week\u2019s events also serve as an opportunity for both campus communities to connect, network, and explore new areas of collaboration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Event Highlights:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Monday, Oct. 13<\/strong><br>\ud83d\udd4c <em>Panel: Islam and Visual Cultures in Contemporary Asia<\/em><br>\ud83d\udccd Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) \ud83d\uddbc <em>Opening Reception: Digital Drift<\/em> (5:00 PM)<br>\ud83d\udccd The Anderson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tuesday, Oct. 14<\/strong><br>\ud83d\udee0 <em>The Future of Design Across Borders<\/em> (12:00 \u2013 1:00 PM)<br>\ud83d\udccd The Anderson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Wednesday, Oct. 15<\/strong><br>\ud83c\udfa4 <em>Creative Research Pecha Kucha<\/em> (2:00 \u2013 5:00 PM)<br>\ud83d\udccd Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss this unique opportunity to engage with international perspectives and creative excellence across both campuses! Visit Qatar Week <a href=\"https:\/\/qatar.vcu.edu\/our-impact\/signature-events\/qatar-week\/\">website<\/a> for more information and how to register for the events! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dates: Monday, October 13 \u2013 Wednesday, October 15, 2025Location: Various locations across VCU Richmond campus Qatar Week is back, celebrating creative collaboration between VCUarts Richmond and VCUarts Qatar! Qatar Week is an annual series of events that takes place on the VCUarts Richmond campus every October.&nbsp; Organized by VCUarts Qatar and VCUarts Richmond, the week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2260,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annoucements-2","tag-qatar-week","tag-vcuarts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":43,"date":"2025-10-06T13:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=43"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:00:31","slug":"october-is-national-disability-employment-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2025\/10\/06\/october-is-national-disability-employment-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of <strong>National Disability Employment Awareness Month<\/strong>, our October General Body Meeting will feature Dr. Ethan Coston, who will present on the history and impact of the ADA. 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