Wellness Tips
Healthy Salad Bowl Luncheon
The “Healthy Salad Bowl Luncheon” is an easy, healthy, and fun way to gather with your fellow employees and eat lunch together. Each person will bring one ingredient to fill up the salad bowl, just like a potluck.
For instructions, click here.
Financial Well-Being
The state of our personal and family finances is a contributing factor to our sense of well-being. Striving to maintain or achieve "financial wellness" in a time when prices keep rising can be challenging and stressful. The resources below might offer you the support you need.
Support Services
Capital District Carpooling and Mass Transit Information
New York State's new pre-tax transportation program that
allows state employees to pay for transit far expenses
on a pre-tax basis through payroll deduction.
IPool2
(Sponsored by CDTA and the Capital District Transportation Committee)
This website allows users to place carpool ads and find park and drive locations.
The program is for individuals who work or live in Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, or Saratoga County.
CDTA
UAlbany employees can ride the CDTA bus #10, 11, 12, 63 and 90
as well as any UAlbany bus for free with their ID card.
The CDTA also has a trip planner option. On their web site,
click on the trip planner logo under the “connecting the region” section.
Put in your destinations and the time you wish to depart.
A trip showing the bus routes will be displayed along
with your estimated travel time.
Be sure to check UAlbany's Office of Environmental Sustainability and Parking & Mass Transit for more commuter information.
Books Available From the EAP Library
- Financial Planning Demystified
- The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom The Courage to Be Rich
- The Finish Rich Book
- The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life Live Well on Less Than You Think
- Living Fiscally Fit: 1,000 Ways to Get Out of Debt and Build Financial Wealth
- The Money Smart Family System The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life
- Personal Financial Fitness Smart Couples Finish Rich
- Suddenly Frugal: How to Live Happier and Healthier for Less
- Women and Money
- Your Money or Your Life
Building Your Resiliency Toolkit
Resiliency is defined as the ability to “bounce back” or to adapt and move forward after facing the adversities and inevitable changes that occur from time to time in our lives. By strengthening our ability to be resilient, we develop trust within ourselves and recognize that we are able to persevere despite set backs or difficult experiences. The more resilient we become, the less stress we will incur and the more empowered we will feel when faced with life’s challenges.
The following links provide information to assist you
with building your resiliency toolkit.
How would you describe your sense of resiliency during difficult times?
Take this resilience assessment to discover your strengths
and your areas for growth.
How do we develop resiliency?
What can I add to my resilience “toolkit” to enhance my ability
to “bounce back”? What skills do I need to develop?
Mayo Clinic Adult Health
Resources for College/University Programs
What can I do as a parent to support my child’s sense of resiliency?
Great Schools
The Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets
*Reaching In Reaching Out Guidebook
*The Skills Videos, Guidebook, and College/University Curriculum Resources are
used with permission from Reaching IN…Reaching OUT.
an evidence-based training program that teaches adults the skills to handle
life’s challenges with resilience and shows them how to pass those
skills along to young children, birth to seven.
On Being Mindful
Are you constantly on the go? Are you always “plugged in” somehow? What if you decided to take a moment each day to “be awake and fully aware?”
Eastern meditation (Buddhist) focuses on the concept of mindfulness—being “in the moment” and noticing without judgment. Try designating 5—10 minutes a day to being mindful—fully aware of what is going on inside and outside of yourself without judgment. Just notice.
You can do everyday things in a mindful way—like washing the dishes, making the bed, or eating a meal. Practicing mindfulness can relieve stress and bring you moments of peace throughout your busy day.
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, & Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School
Neurological Reason for Doing Mindfulness Meditation