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Empowering employees for a healthier district

Purpose

WHAT • WHY • WHO

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Empower for employees by employees is a program geared towards bringing you resources and opportunities to live your best life. We all know knowledge is power and the power to know how to take care of one’s self is the ultimate goal.

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As we designed Empower we didn’t want to leave anyone out. Empower is for you and your family because when you are healthier and happier we know this positively influences your family members. The collective health and happiness of all of us leads to a more positive lifetime.

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Now more than ever the resources Empower is bringing to you are vital to one’s health and happiness. The trying times of COVID are teaching us that personal health and care for one’s whole-self is essential. This is why we provide podcasts, newsletters, live webinars, and local resources to support you and your family.

The Kern High School District (KHSD) is committed to ensuring equal, fair, and meaningful access to employment and education services. KHSD prohibits discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), intimidation, or bullying in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis and/or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics of age, ancestry, color, ethnic group identification, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical information, national origin, physical or mental disability, parental status, political affiliation, pregnancy and related conditions, race, religion, retaliation, sex, sexual orientation, military or veterans status, homelessness, foster status, affiliation with the Boy Scouts of America and other designated youth groups, or any other basis prohibited by California state and federal nondiscrimination laws consistent with Education Code 200 and 220, Government Code 11135, and Title IX. 

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If you believe you have been subjected to discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), intimidation, or bullying you should contact your school site principal and/or the District's Equity Compliance Officer and Title II/ADA, Title IX, and Section 504 Coordinator, Melissa Jimenez, 5801 Sundale Avenue, (661) 827-3173, melissa_jimenez@kernhigh.org. A copy of KHSD's Uniform Complaint policy and Nondiscrimination policy are available at www.kernhigh.org and upon request.

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