{"id":6570,"date":"2023-05-25T15:57:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T21:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2023-05-25T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T23:01:19","slug":"flatiron-honors-mental-health-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/news\/flatiron-honors-mental-health-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Flatiron Honors Mental Health Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wnVEW\">\n<div class=\"Yy5or GNqVo yxtKT allowTextSelection\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Message body\">\n<div lang=\"en-US\">\n<div>\n<p>Did you know that the construction industry has a four times higher rate of suicide than the rest of the population?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As Sarah Tacker, vice president and district manager for Northern California, stated, &#8220;As an industry we need to normalize conversations about mental health and suicide prevention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This week at our project sites, we held stand-downs to talk about mental health. We are working towards normalizing mental health conversations and supporting not only the physical health but also the mental health of our employees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wnVEW\">\n<div class=\"DVtfe Vl8Vx\">&#8220;Setting aside dedicated time to reflect on mental health is a reflection of our commitment to this important issue.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"T31hC GNqVo yxtKT allowTextSelection\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Message body\">\n<div lang=\"en-US\">\n<div>\n<p>&#8211; Tammy Anander, corporate safety training manager<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At Flatiron, the health and safety of our employees is our top priority.&nbsp;Our Employee Assistance Programs are free and confidential resources where our employees can access professional support 24\/7.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>We can all work together to remove the stigma from the topic of mental health because healthy teams are stronger teams.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about what Flatiron is doing to prioritize the safety of our teams at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/sustainability\">www.flatironcorp.com\/sustainability<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the construction industry has a four times higher rate of suicide than the rest of the population?&nbsp; As Sarah Tacker, vice president and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,557],"tags":[28,179,518,568,362],"class_list":["post-6570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety-and-environment","category-sustainability","tag-featured","tag-flatiron","tag-flatiron-people","tag-mental-health","tag-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}