workplace health and engagement

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
ASIST is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first-aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. Although ASIST is widely used by healthcare providers, participants don’t need any formal training to attend the workshop—ASIST can be learned and used by anyone.

New online training available for managers from our friends at CMHA as part of their Not Myself Today initiative. This initiative offers paid subscription to a variety of tools for managers to increase their mental health literacy and ability to support their teams.  Do you agree that mental health literacy and the skills to foster a safe, healthy workplace are critical for leaders to be successful today?

Click here to register for this free presentation.

Depression and other mental health issues have a substantial effect on the workforce in Canada. Approximately 500,000 Canadians will not be at work in any week due to a mental health disorder, and more than twice that number will work at a reduced level of productivity. Yet there is no widely accepted clinical tool or measure for determining if a person’s depression is caused or triggered by factors at their job.

There is more to mental health than diagnosable mental illnesses. We’re pleased to release, on behalf of Thrive Toronto, the city’s first multi-sector mental health plan focused on improving mental wellness and psychological health.

The #ThriveTO Mental Health Plan outlines 5 key actions it will undertake to improve mental wellness:

Let’s Discuss: Opioids in the Trades

This one hour session explores why the trades sector has more substance use disorders than any other employment sector. Learn how the trades environment plays a role in addiction and what trades workers and employers can do to help. Certificate of completion will be given to participants.

Join the conversation with the Youth Opioid Awareness Program at the YMCA. The YOAP is offering interactive and engaging workshops for ages 15 – 24 both online and in-person. Participate in escape rooms, quizzes and more!

Young adults are reporting mental health issues at a significantly higher rate than older adults. In fact, two thirds of women aged 18-34 report living with a mental health condition, according to a recent poll commissioned by the Ontario Association of Social Workers.

Workplace leaders must confront these changes in order to recruit and retain young employees.

According to Australia NSW's “Code of Practice, Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work", they include:

Guarding Minds @ Work is a widely used survey designed to measure 13 psychosocial dimensions of the work environment that have the potential to affect worker mental health. But a joint study by the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) and Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) found the survey unable to measure each of the 13 dimensions in isolation.

This free online discussion, hosted via Canadian Club Toronto, will feature mental health, business, HR and insurance leaders exploring workplace mental health and wellness in the post-COVID world.

As part of this exciting panel, Dr. Deepy Sur, CEO of the Ontario Association of Social Workers, will make the case for strengthening our focus on employee mental health, and why this will pay dividends for our teams, our society and our organizations.

You’re invited for EHN Canada’s next educational event: New Trends in the Workplace Mental Health and Addictions Summit

Psychological Therapies & Work Related Stress

May 10, 2022 @ 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Dr. Sanjay Rao, MBBS, MD, FRCPsych, FRCPC, MBA

Unified CBT Academy covers multiple areas of CBT with a focus on specific approaches to specific problems, rather than on limited general principles. Committed to evidence-based treatment and an improvement in client outcomes with measurement-based care, workshops review evidence and practitioners take away a collection of skills to enhance outcomes of their clients.

We pay an emotional price for doing the work that we do: Some of us hear difficult stories daily and are frequently exposed to traumatic details from the cases we are working on. We are also not always able to help everyone who comes to us for help - the demand often outweighs what we can offer. What is the impact of this work on our own emotional well-being, on our personal life?

You’re invited for EHN Canada’s special webinar event:

Workplace Mental Health in the “New Normal”