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Ethics in business summit aims to improve mental health

Post-Crescent (Appleton, WI) - 7/31/2015

July 31--MENASHA -- Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley will launch the Fox Valley Ethics in Business Summit on Oct. 6 to improve community-wide preventive mental health care.

"This community is really investing in mental health for all," said Samaritan Counseling Center executive director Rosangela Berbert. "Physicians, law enforcement officers, educators and faith leaders all are recognizing their role in supporting mental health. The Fox Valley Ethics in Business Summit is an opportunity for business leaders to get involved, while making their businesses stronger."

Gary Cebulski, president of Samaritan Counseling Center's board of directors and chair of the Fox Valley Ethics in Business Summit steering committee, said those who participate will help set a high standard for ethics across the region.

"The summit is meant to stimulate conversation," Cebulski says. "Participants will do some visual goal-setting and real-time ethical decision making to shape their ethics plans for the coming year."

The Ethics Resource Center's 2013 National Business Ethics Survey of the U.S. Workforce suggests that ethical misdeeds are more common than one might think. Forty-one percent of employees have observed ethical misconduct on the job, the survey shows. That figure has decreased from 52 percent in 2005. Ethics training seems to be a factor in the decrease. During the same time from -- from 2005 to 2013 -- the percentage of employers providing ethics training increased from 62 percent to 81 percent.

Dr. Clancy Martin will be the keynote speaker at the summit. Martin is a professor of business ethics and philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Prior to his work in academia, he spent seven years in the luxury jewelry business, where he experienced firsthand the connection between ethics and mental health.

In addition to advancing the conversation on ethics, the ethics summit will raise funds to improve access to mental health care -- one of the region's biggest challenges, according to the 2014 Living Well in Outagamie County report and 2014-2019 Community Health Improvement Plan.

"By emphasizing the idea that workplace practices impact employees' mental health and productivity, the summit will help make our whole community stronger," Berbert said.

To learn more about the event, visit www.samaritan-counseling.com/eib or contact development director Lisa Strandberg at 920-886-9319, ext. 116, or lstrandberg@samaritan-counseling.com.

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