Announcements

As part of Green Chimneys’ support to staff, online learning opportunities and job-related training continue to be available via Biz Library and other resources.
Online tools for managing stress and remote work during the pandemic:
Topic: Managing Stress & Anxiety During Covid-19
Topic: Resilience
Topic: Working Remotely
Topic: Communication
Required Training: COVID-19 and Trauma Awareness for All Staff
A new training focused on the impact and effects related to trauma as we live through the turbulence of this pandemic. The session is informative and full of tips and strategies designed to strengthen personal coping strategies and adopt new ways of working with others. The training features a video and Powerpoint presentations for direct care and non-direct care staff; the direct care version includes additional strategies centered on working with youth.
Accompanying Powerpoint presentations:
Direct Care Staff
Non-Direct Care Staff
Many other required staff trainings are also continuing. Please contact the staff member connected to the program you need:
TCI Refreshers
Jackie Larkin
jlarkin@greenchimneys.org
Compliance Training
Biz Library Access
Heidi Duelfer
hduelfer@greenchimneys.org
Teacher Trainings
Ed Dalpe
edalpe@greenchimneys.org
Meet the Bantam chicken family: a hen that arrived at Green Chimneys with seven new baby chicks in tow. A local resident who keeps chickens discovered the eggs in the hen’s nest and realized that many chicks would need a bigger home. Once they hatched, she wanted to keep the family together and brought Mama and her chicks to the Green Chimneys Farm where they took up residence in the bunny hutch, living together happily with their rabbit roommates. The two roosters and five hens have grown up looking just like their black and white-speckled mom so there’s no mistaking this family resemblance!