“…Today, self-care practices for those who work in the helping professions are generally the responsibility of the employee even though research has shown that company-wide approaches to self-care facilitate individuals’ execution and engagement with the practice (Badr, 2022; Posluns & Gall, 2020; Roebuck, Chapados, et al, 2022). Leaving self-care to the employee, to practice when they can find the time and energy, stems from a neoliberalist approach that places responsibility on the worker, rather than the employer, in creating a healthy workforce (Killian, 2008; Roebuck, Chapados, et al, 2022). In response to the limits to individualized self-care, Newcomb (2022) and Mavridis et al (2019) suggested a need for strengthening worker support at the agency level and the dismantling of oppressive hierarchies and individualistic expectations that can lead to an assigning of blame to workers when their well-being suffers at a job that demands much.…”