STRIVE
Creating a Culture of Excellence
STRIVE Staff Team Building Program Overview
Empowering Care Teams through Connection, Emotional Literacy, and Purpose-Driven Collaboration
Support
Cultivating emotional resilience and peer-led empathy
Teamwork
Strengthening collaboration through structured, gamified challenges
Respect
Fostering inclusive practices that value each voice
Initiative
Encouraging proactive problem-solving and ownership
Vision
Aligning personal and organizational goals for lasting impact
Empowerment
Promoting growth, leadership, and ongoing reflection
Key Benefits
Staff Cohesion & Retention
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Reduces interpersonal conflict and workplace burnout.
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Boosts morale with interactive activities, metaphorical tools, and peer recognition.
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Creates shared language and emotional understanding for smoother communication.
Decreased Turnover
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Cultivates a sense of belonging, reducing exit rates among caregivers.
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Provides mentorship and growth pathways that increase staff satisfaction.
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Encourages restorative practices over punitive reactions.
Increased Efficiency
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Teams function more smoothly with clearly defined roles and mutual respect.
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Empathy-based communication enhances day-to-day workflow and care transitions.
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Staff identify and solve challenges proactively, minimizing delays.
Cost Savings
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Decreased recruitment and onboarding costs through higher retention.
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Fewer burnout-related absences and errors lead to improved care quality.
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Boosts ROI in training through long-term emotional literacy and behavioral alignment.
Resident Wellbeing
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Emotionally attuned staff provide more personalized and consistent care.
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Promotes trust and familiarity, especially crucial for memory care and vulnerable
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populations.
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Aligns emotional climate of the care team with therapeutic goals for residents.
View some of the programs STRIVE has to offer below!
Branches
Growing Through Caregiving
The Branches Program is a 12-part caregiver and support group experience designed to nurture understanding, resilience, and community. Guided by the imagery of a growing tree—its roots, trunk, branches, leaves, and canopy—this series helps caregivers anchor themselves in knowledge while also expanding their capacity for presence, grace, and growth.
Grafting
Train-the-Trainer
The GRAFTING: Train-the-Trainer initiative is a dynamic professional development program created to build sustainable, therapeutic activity frameworks in memory care environments. Just like grafting a branch onto a living tree, this program equips designated trainers with the tools to transfer vital team-building, communication, and engagement techniques into the hands and hearts of activity professionals.
