02/06/2026
We are incredibly grateful to Lois Manzella-Marchitto from Fitness Knocking and New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Through an Upskill Grant from the DOL, we were able to bring in Lois for a year long, almost monthly employee wellness program.
This picture shows a small part of the team members who were able to take part. From the smiles, you can see Lois has a special gift for making wellness education and practices fun and meeting each person where they are, to help them set goals and work with the tools accessible to them. We laughed. We learned about food choices. We moved our bodies in new ways. We learned how to use a basic bath towel to build our muscles. We admitted some hard truths, sometimes to ourselves, sometimes to each other. We set SMART goals and we revised them through Lois's Goal Getting process.
In our mental health work, we have a high risk of burnout and secondary trauma, from listening to others share what they have been through. It is imperative that we support our team in taking care of themselves. In nonprofit, we don't have funding or access to the amenities that our corporate friends sometimes have. Thank you, Lois, for bringing all of your knowledge, experience, passion and energy to help our team. You knocked and we rocked!
