As an employer, it’s important to recognize how mental health and workplace environments impact each other. It makes good business sense to do what you can to protect and promote the psychological health of your workers.
Follow the links below for information on various topics related to employee mental health and the mental health services that are available to help when needed.
Workplace Safety and Prevention Services Mental health road map provides all the tools you need to create and implement a psychological health and safety strategy at your workplace.
Think Mental Health provides business owners with the resources needed to better understand and prevent mental health problems.
Workplace Strategies for Mental Health provides credible and evidence-based tools and resources to help with the prevention, support and management of workplace mental health issues.
Guarding Minds at Work offers resources designed to assess, protect and promote psychological health and safety in the workplace.
Mental Health Works provides a variety of capacity building workshops and resources on workplace mental health.
Healthy Minds @ Work offers information and resources to employers and employees on various topics related to workplace mental health.
Workplace Safety and Prevention Services Mental health road map provides all the tools you need to create and implement a psychological health and safety strategy at your workplace.
Have That Talk for Workplaces offers a video series highlighting the thirteen factors in the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. Each video has a facilitator's guide to help get the conversation started.
Mental Health Commission of Canada provides promising practices for implementing the Standard, testimonials, case study research project findings and implementation resources.
StressAssess Workplace Edition is an online survey tool designed for workers and managers who are interested in assessing psychosocial hazards in the workplace, to anonymously, collectively and confidently identify issues.
The Health Case by Mental Health Works discusses mental illness as everyone’s concern, contradictions between staff and management, dealing with stigma and more.
Guarding Minds at Work examines how compromised employee psychological health can have a range of negative effects on organizations, the positive impacts of a psychologically healthy and safe workforce and other ideas for building a business case.
Workplace Strategies for Mental Health articles on various ways to support employees:
Practical strategies and tools for leaders to respond to a wide range of workplace and personal concerns, like grief, trauma, burnout, dementia, impairment and substance use and suicide.
Mental Health Week an initiative of the Canadian Mental Health Association
Mental Health Commission of Canada series of 13 posters, one for each of the psychosocial factors of the National Standard, customizable for organizations to promote initiatives that support psychological health and safety in the workplace.
Canadian Mental Health Association offers workshops and training that provide information and education on mental health, mental illness and recovery
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training was developed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada to improve mental health literacy and provide the skills and knowledge to help people better manage potential or developing mental health problems in themselves, a family member, a friend or a colleague. MHFA training is offered through certified instructors.
Thunder Bay Counselling offers corporate training and workshops which are available to employers to assist employee groups in building skills, increasing awareness and knowledge about issues that affect all aspects of our lives.
Workplace Safety and Prevention Services (WSPS) is a not-for-profit organization offering health and safety expertise and resources to protect Ontario workers and businesses. Explore the Training and Events offered on Workplace Mental Health.
Wellness Together Canada provides free education resources on a variety of mental health and substance use topics.
The following bulletin board kits are now available. Click on the links to see what each board contains:
Workplaces can order one or all of these kits at no charge.
Business card-sized help cards are available to workplaces. These cards list some key mental health crisis services available. There is a space on the inside to write in the contact information of an employee assistance program provider. These cards are handy to have in a staff room or on a supervisor’s desk if someone is in need of mental health support. Small acrylic card holders can also be provided.
