Name
Building Resilience with Sleep, Energy Pods and Decompression Rooms
Date & Time
Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Paul Erickson Carla Sutton Moore
Description

Research connecting sleep hygiene and best practices with behavioral health and resilience, this presentation demonstrates eye-opening insights to the benefits of shuteye. Working with the City of Atlanta, Dr. Carla Moore provided prevention and wellness training workshops for city employees, especially Public Safety, that resulted in noticeably lower costs associated with mental health hospitalizations, inpatient, and partial hospitalization treatment. As a result, the City was awarded a rebate from BCBS and Kaiser and the funds were used to build a wellness group room and purchase two “energy pods”. The city implemented a 60-day study with 262 city employees (109 from AFRD) using the energy pods. The results of the study program were striking.

Location Name
O'Hare 2