Mental Wellness for Employees

• Working Through It by Workplace Strategies for Mental Health offers a wide range of resources to reclaim wellbeing while at work, off work and returning to work.
• Mental Health Works by the Canadian Mental Health Association provides information and resources on various topics related to employee mental health.

• Is the workplace a factor in developing mental health problems? by Think Mental Health
• Workplace Strategies for Mental Health:
  • Depression, anxiety and other conditions
  • The Stress Response
  • Is your reaction out of balance?
• Being a Mindful Employee: An Orientation to Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace is an online course which will assist employees to understand the 13 factors that influence psychosocial health and safety in the workplace.

Disclaimer

The assessment tools listed below and the information provided within them will not be a substitute for medical advice. If you feel that you need advice, please talk to a qualified healthcare professional.

• Canadian Mental Health Association tools:
  • Mental Health Meter will help you to understand the characteristics that make up good mental health and to determine your mental fitness.
  • What’s Your Stress Index? will help you find out your stress level.
  • Work-life Balance Quiz assesses your own personal work-life balance.
• The Check Your Drinking Survey by the Alcohol Help Centre asks questions about drinking.
• Workplace Strategies for Mental Health tools:
  • Wellbeing Checklist asks questions to help you step back and get a clear picture of your situation. 
  • What are you experiencing? helps identify the most common signs and symptoms of mood disorders.
• Check Up from the Neck Up by the Mood Disorders of Canada is designed to raise awareness about mood disorders and connect people with resources to get help if they need it.
• StressAssess - Personal Edition Questionnaire by Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers provides ideas to improve psychological health and safety in your workplace and compares your results with national averages.

• Workplace Strategies for Mental Health:
  • Helping troubled coworkers
  • Ideas for resolving conflict at work
  • Protecting yourself against bullying
  • Talking to coworkers when returning to work from a mental illness
  • When the boss may have a mental health issue
• Supporting a friend or family member with a mental illness by Here to Help
• Explaining mental health problems to coworkers by Mental Health Works

• Mental Health Works:
• • What are the accommodation rights and responsibilities of employers, employees, and unions?
  • What is the duty to accommodate?
  • Different types of accommodations that people with a mental health issue may need
  • What is reasonable accommodation?
• Workplace Strategies for Mental Health:
• • Getting help at work
  • Helping others help you at work
  • Roles and responsibilities in the return-to-work process
• The Ontario Human Rights Commission explains accommodation in the Human Rights and Mental Health fact sheet  and the Disability and Human Rights brochure.

• Workplace Strategies for Mental Health:
  
  • Self-care strategies    
  • Potentially harmful coping strategies
  • Managing emotions at work
  • Strategies for managing difficult thoughts, emotions andbehaviours at work
  • Taking charge of your wellbeing
  • Creating your own workplace plan
  • Healthy break activities
  • Printable colouring pages
     
• Stress Strategies provides a variety of research-backed stress management strategies, shares real life stories of how people used these strategies to manage their stress more effectively, and offers guidance through questions to help make use of them, as well as a personalized stress management plan.

• Work/life balance tips from the Canadian Mental Health Association

Mental health crisis? Options for getting help.

• Call 911.
• Go to the nearest emergency room.

Call Crisis Response in Thunder Bay: 807-346-8282
                                      District of Thunder Bay: 1-888-269-3100
                                      TTY: 1-888-269-3100

• Crisis Response Services offers mobile crisis response, crisis support residence, and 24/7 telephone services to both youth and adults who are experiencing a mental health crisis. All ages are eligible.
  Thunder Bay: 807-346-8282
  District of Thunder Bay: 1-888-269-3100
  TTY: 1-888-269-3100

• Thunder Bay Counselling Centre provides specific counselling services at no or low cost. The walk-in counselling clinic provides immediate counselling services to individuals, couples and families on a first come, first served basis. It’s offered in partnership with Children’s Centre Thunder Bay.
• Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre Mental Health Program provides acute care adult mental health services including: emergency services; short-term inpatient assessment; assessment, stabilization and short-term inpatient treatment; discharge planning; outpatient services; and, consultation, education, coordination, and integration with other healthcare services including with primary care providers.
• North of Superior Counselling Programs is a non-profit, community based mental health and addictions agency committed to supporting healthy communities in the North of Superior District. It provides a full range of culturally responsive counselling and wellness programs to assist individuals and families.
• Big White Wall is an online mental health and wellbeing service offering self-help programs, creative outlets and a community that cares. It offers anonymous peer support; 24/7 moderation by clinically trained 'Wall Guides'; self-guided courses; self-improvement tools and resources; and a safe space to express yourself without judgment. 
• BounceBack: Reclaim your health is a free program designed to help adults and youth aged 15+ manage symptoms of depression and anxiety. It can help build skills to manage worry and anxiety, combat unhelpful thinking and become more active and assertive.
• ConnexOntario operates three helplines that provide health services information for people experiencing problems with gambling, drugs or alcohol and mental illness. Helpful, supportive information and referral specialists answer all calls, emails or webchat requests 24/7. The service is free and confidential.
  
  • Drug and Alcohol Helpline 1-800-565-8603
  • Mental Health Helpline 1-866-531-2600
  • Ontario Problem Gambling Helpline 1-888-230-3505

• Alpha Court walk-in services: An on-call worker is available Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (first come, first serve basis) to provide information and resources on mental health and addiction services, assist with completing the "Request for Services" form, assist with appropriate referrals, and connect with Alpha Court’s Day Centre
• Anishnawbe Mushkiki provides its clients with services related to situational issues including day-to-day challenges and addictions, relationships, anxiety, depression, and trauma through one-on-one counselling, peer support groups, and workshops.
• Beendigen provides a wide range of holistic healing services to Aboriginal women and children in the community. The team provides counselling services to women who are victims of abuse, through individual and group programming.

• Catholic Family Development Centre is a non-denominational family service agency dedicated to strengthening and empowering families and individuals through group programs, individual, couple and family counselling, e-counselling and parenting programs.

• Dilico Anishnawbek Family Care offers a range of mental health and addictions services to adult clients in the city and district of Thunder Bay.
• Joseph Esquega Health Centre offers comprehensive health care programs including mental health care.

• Lakehead University Student Health and Counseling Centre offers primary health and mental health care to Lakehead University students.

• NorWest Community Health Centres offerscounselling services at the Thunder Bay Site and through Telemedicine Services at both Longlac and Armstrong Sites. Areas of focus are on emotional and mental health related to anxiety, depression, trauma and situational issues. Collaborative Care Model with primary care providers and referrals to community services and programs are available.
• Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA) provides mental health intake, screening, assessment, and treatment services; assists families to cope with their child’s mental health needs; offers information and education training sessions on mental health issues; uses contemporary and traditional interventions; provides access to additional resources if needed.

• P.A.C.E. (People Advocating for Change through Empowerment Inc.) provides person-centered services to consumer/survivors with mental health lived experience.

• St. Joseph’s Care Group Mental Health and Addictions Services  provides treatment for individuals whose needs are best met with services available from a broad range of clinical disciplines; promotes community integration, quality of life, meaningful outcomes in life and recovery; provides comprehensive individualized care which includes assessment, treatment and follow up care
• Talk 4 Healing offers culturally appropriate, free and confidential telephone counselling services to Aboriginal women at 1-855-554-HEAL