Managing Your Mental Health
HR has collected a great set of mental health resources to help you manage the ups and downs of our COVID-19 experience. Our VPFO HR staff is on campus every day for confidential conversations. See below for this week’s HR duty roster.
UBC THRIVE — TAKE THE SURVEY BY JULY 10
As a reminder, UBC Sustainability Scholar in partnership with UBC Wellbeing is conducting a survey to inform the content and format of UBC’s Thrive campaign in November 2020 so it can be delivered in a way that best supports the mental health of the UBC community in the time of COVID-19 and beyond. The survey is open until July 10, so be sure to add your voice.
Last week’s updates from UBC
- July 6: UBC Broadcast: Federal funding support for research personnel and trainees impacted by COVID-19
- June 30: President’s Letter to the Community: Statement on International Pride Month
- June 29: UBC Broadcast: Planning for the safe phased-in re-occupancy of our campuses
General updates about UBC and its response to COVID-19 continue to be updated at covid19.ubc.ca.
Department updates
Facilities – Building Operations, Energy & Water Services, and Infrastructure Development
- Infrastructure Development/Properties Trust project list: July 2020 project list and status available on the Facilities website.
- Construction Office priority list: July 2020 project list and status available on the Building Operations website.
- Project Services’ Project Coordinators on-site support schedule this week: Please continue to contact the designated Project Manager/Coordinator for project inquiries.
- July 6: Victor Wong & David Meek
- July 7: Victor Wong & David Meek
- July 8: Victor Wong & David Kosub
- July 9: Darren Herrington & David Kosub
- July 10: Darren Herrington & David Kosub
Finance – Comptroller, Finance & Operational Excellence, and Treasury
- FY2019/20 and May ledgers now available: The year-end ledgers, as well as the ledgers for May, are now available for the UBC community to run reports via the Management Systems Portal – FMS Reporting.
- UBC Budget: The revised budget for UBC will be presented to the Executive on July 7.
- Payroll parallel testing: The IRP team is currently running parallel payroll testing, to prepare us for the transition to Workday.
Operations & Advising – Communications & Engagement and Human Resources
- VPFO HR on-site support schedule this week:
- Monday, July 6th: Arvind Kang, Elliott Campbell
- Tuesday, July 7th: Matt Furgal, Rachel Lau
- Wednesday, July 8th: Gregor Macdonald, Rachel Lau
- Thursday, July 9th: Arvind Kang, Elliott Campbell
- Friday, July 10th: Matt Furgal, Gregor Macdonald
Safety & Risk Services
- COVID-19 Safety Planning FAQs: Frequently asked questions about the COVID-19 Safety Planning process can now be found on the SRS website.
- New stormwater monitoring system: Team members from Safety & Risk Services and Energy & Water Services recently oversaw the installation of a new hydrometric station near UBC Vancouver’s South Campus, to monitor water quality in UBC’s stormwater system.
Other notable updates
IRP CHANGE READINESS ASSESSMENT 3
A final reminder that the IRP Program is running it’s last readiness survey to seek feedback from all UBC faculty and staff. This is your opportunity to voice and provide feedback to the IRP team directly. It will take about 15 minutes to complete and is completely anonymous. Please take the survey by Friday, July 10.
SHARE YOUR VIEWS ON MOBILITY DURING COVID-19
Campus and Community Planning invites you to share your commuting experience in a 10-minute survey, to help facilitate transportation programs, partnerships and possibly new policies for Metro Vancouver.
VACCINATIONS — YOUR VOICE MATTERS
The UBC Health Wellbeing and Benefits, Occupational and Preventive Health, and Pharmacists Clinic teams are working together to provide UBC faculty and staff with the best possible vaccine-related information and access to local vaccination services. Please take a short survey to help us better understand your areas of concern and ways we can help meet the vaccination needs of employees. Survey closes July 12.
Helpful news
People have been suggesting news articles that they have found informative or helpful at work. These are provided for information and entertainment only. Unless noted, UBC doesn’t specifically endorse or supply editorial to this content.
- Sometimes a happy, dancing baby is all you really need.
Sharing an article that may be helpful to your peers? Send it to communications@vpfo.ubc.ca at any time.