🍾 2024 Year In Review

looking back at the last year + Prism Superlatives

🎅🏻 Ho ho ho!

Raise your hand if you can actually believe 2025 is 16 days away…

What a great year it’s been as Prism continues to grow, evolve, and ride the waves as they come, all while remaining true to our core values of people first, care & respect.

Cheers to another year and here’s to the next chapter in Prism’s book of adventures!

Now… a look back at some milestones & numbers and some “Prism Superlatives.”

Happy Holidays and thank you to every single person for your contributions, presence & positivity on this wild ride!

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🔢 THE NUMBERS

We had 5️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ mediations scheduled this year, and 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ opportunities to give people a chance to say “Yes” to a better tomorrow.

→ If every mediation that got scheduled only required 7 emails to get it on the books (which is probably an underestimate— ask our scheduling team!) that’s 3,843 emails received and handled by our office ladies just to get the ball rolling. 🥵

→ If 90% of our 500 mediated cases resolved (which remains our closure rate), that’s 450 injured workers + families whose lives we (presumably) positively impacted. 💙

→ We give 4 “turtles” at every mediation, which means Connie made 2,000 turtles (or ~50 batches) for mediations alone this year (many more if you include all the ones for conferences & events!)

• One “batch” of turtles takes roughly 75 minutes from melting to wrapping, which means Connie spent 3,750 minutes (or 62.5 hours / 2.6 days) making turtles. 😲

Our busiest month (December) had 5️⃣8️⃣ mediations scheduled at the time of this writing.

→ Taking out all the days we don’t mediate (weekends, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, the day after Christmas, New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day), that leaves 18 available days in December for mediations.

• This means we averaged 3.2 mediations/day or 14.5 mediations/week. 👏🏼

While we make donations to various organizations throughout the year whenever there is a loss in our Prism Family, this year we donated independently to 3️⃣ meaningful causes:

• Hospice of Baton Rouge- We hosted a silent action at our annual crawfish boil and all the money raised was donated directly to Hospice of Baton Rouge.

• a local Olympian’s journey- Because we believe in connections, people & our community, we helped pay for a New Zealand diver, Lizzie Roussell’s, travel expenses for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. You can read more about Lizzie’s story here!

• Front Yard Bikes- At our annual team retreat this year, we donated ~$500 of supplies for the kids at Front Yard Bike’s afterschool program. Go team! 🎁

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📆 LOOKING BACK

🏅PRISM SUPERLATIVES

Let’s end the year with some laughs, shall we? Alternative nominations welcome…

P.S. As much as I would have loved for this to have some Christmas music in the background, both Copyright laws & email file size rendered that impossible so, PLEASE, play some holiday music while you view! 🎶🎄

Merry Christmas to all and to all a BIG THANK YOU for showing up, working hard & being a part of the Prism Family. I think Sean said it best at our retreat: Work is not most people’s safe place. How lucky we are.

Cheers!