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2012 Conference Resources

• 5 priority elements, and moving to standards, for psychologically safe and psychologically healthy workplaces (184KB PDF)
  Conference Chair, Lloyd Craig, shared the top five priorities for psychologically safe and healthy workplaces.
• Delegates' Priority Steps for Building Their Psychologically Healthy Workplace
  Notes from delegates' morning discussion.

• What Delegates Committed to Take to Their Workplaces
  Notes from delegates' afternoon discussion.

• Promoting psychological health in organizations: a focus on workplace relations (519KB PDF)
  In our morning program, Dr. Ali Dastmalchian and Claudia Steinke provided an overview of studies on workplace health promotion, key factors that contribute to better outcomes and the role of empowerment in implementing change.

• Resources to Help You build Your Psychologically Healthy Workplace (1.5MB PDF)
  In our afternoon program, Dr. Joti Samra offered an overview of several free resources available to help employers and employees assess, improve and maintain mental health.

• Complex Issues. Clear Solutions 
  This conference workshop from CMHA's Mental Health Works initiative provided delegates with skills to recognize when a worker may be struggling with a mental health issue, more effectively discuss sensitive issues with employees, and create accommodation strategies that work.

• Building Peer Support Networks in the Workplace (1.21MB PDF)
  In our conference workshop, LCol Stéphane Grenier provided an understanding of the value of involvement of people living—and working—with mental health issues in dealing with mental health challenges within the workplace environment.

Web-based Resources

• Vancouver Board of Trade's Mental Health Report
  The Vancouver Board of Trade has joined the growing movement toward improving the psychological well-being of workplaces by releasing a landmark report entitled Psychologically Healthy Workplaces: Improving Bottom Line Results and Employee Psychological Well-Being.

• Mental Health Works 
  Extensive information, including Q&As for managers and employees, information on training and workshops, speakers, current news and research in the field, and events.

• Heretohelp.bc.ca 
  Information in many languages on mental health, specific mental health conditions and illnesses, treatments, resources in BC, various demographic-specific information, etc. Provided by BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions, a group of seven non-profit agencies including the Canadian Mental Health Association's BC Division.

• Mental Disorders and Substance Use in the Workplace
  A fact sheet about mental disorders and substance use in the workplace: how it can affect you at work, warning signs and resources to help you.

• Building Mentally Healthy Workplaces
  The Conference Board of Canada, June 20, 2011
  A recent survey finds that nearly half of Canadian employees have dealt with mental health issues at some point, though many are reluctant to reveal their struggles to their employer due to concerns surrounding stigma. The report, Building Mentally Healthy Workplaces, stresses the need for more mental health training for managers. 

• What You Need to Know About Mental Health: a Tool for Managers
  A resource from the Conference Board of Canada (250Mb pdf)

• Workplace Strategies for Mental Health
  This public resource includes videos, action plans, worksheets, forms, publications and strategies

• Managing Mental Health Matters
  Managing Emotions is an evidence-based assessment tool of emotional intelligence that can help employers improve mental health in the workplace.

• Guarding Minds at Work
  Tools to assess and address psychosocial risk in the workplace.  Includes survey, scorecards, audit forms, evidence-based recommendations and evaluation methods

• The Roundtable for Workplace Mental Health
  Provides “Code of Best Practices for Employers”, toolkit for managers, reference material and tools.

• Leadership Framework for Advancing Workplace Mental Health
  From the Mental Health Commission of Canada.  Includes videos of corporate, small business, government and union leaders talking about workplace mental health – the business case, corporate social responsibility, risk management, recruitment and retention.

• Best Practices for Return-to-Work/Stay-at-Work Interventions for Workers with Mental Health Conditions Final Report  Read the full study
  This report was created by the OHSAH Disability Prevention Team and participants from BC healthcare sector, which looks at the key elements of effective interventions and asks if current methods improve the return to work experience for employees with mental health conditions.

• Healthy Minds at Work
  Provides information and links to credible resources that can help workplaces effectively address mental health issues with the aim of improving workplace mental health for all.

• Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association  
  Guiding Principles to Support Good Mental Health in the Workplace

• Visions Journal's Workplaces Issue
  The Workplaces issue of Visions, BC’s Mental Health and Addictions Journal includes articles by Jennifer Lynch, QC, Chief Commissioner of the CHRC on the legal aspects; by Ali Dastmalchian, Dean of the University of Victoria School of Business on the business case; and several other articles on the topic.

• Lancaster House
  Legal information on specific case law, publications, e-newsletters, and conferences

• The Canadian Human Rights Commission's Policy on Mental Illness and Accommodations
  On the CHRC website, you can find cases related to discrimination in employment and links to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the section on human rights in employment. 

• Working Through It
  Videos and text handouts by and for individuals who experience mental health-related concerns in the workplace.  Includes handouts, checklists and forms

• Mind Matters Mental Health E-News  
  Canadian Mental Health Association, BC Division’s monthly e-newsletter contains the latest research on mental health, including workplace mental health, disability management and return-to-work practices, as well as events around the province. Available by free online subscription.

• Mental Health Works Presentation and Workshops
  Workplace presentations and workshops available across Canada. Certified Trainers in BC deliver in-house training anywhere in BC, Yukon, and Alberta, and colleagues deliver anywhere in Canada – including workshops en français. We would be delighted to deliver management skills workshops for managers and union representatives, specialist training for HR professionals, and  “Awareness” and “Workplace Influence” sessions for employees at all levels. BC HRMA members – these courses may be eligible for CHRP recertification credits.

• BC Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards
  The BC Psychologically Healthy Workplace Collaborative is a standing committee of the BC Psychological Association, and is comprised of psychologists, business leads, academics and informed professionals who volunteer their time, commitment and expertise to further knowledge about creating psychologically healthy workplaces in BC.

• Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program
  An initiative of the American Psychological Association, the PHWA program offers a host of resources for employers and employees related to psychologically healthy workplaces.

• Partnership for Workplace Mental Health
  The Partnership for Workplace Mental Health is a program of the American Psychiatric Foundation, a subsidiary of the American Psychiatric Association. The Partnership works with businesses to ensure that employees and their families living with mental illness, including substance use disorders, receive effective care. The website includes information on a range of practical employer practices in the area of workplace mental health, by type of program (e.g., awards and recognition; disability/case management; disease management; health plans; wellness).

• Health & Safety Executive: Work Related Stress & Management Standards
  The Health & Safety Executive is the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness in the UK.

2011 Conference Resources

• Lessons for Leaders: One Manager's Hard-won Wisdom
  Rona Maynard reflects on her time as editor of Chatelaine and how attending the Bottom Line Conference provided her with answers she didn't have before

• Making it Safe: Blueprint for Psychological Safety (450KB PDF)
  In our morning program, Mary Ann Baynton shared specific examples of mental health issues arising in the workplace and the steps she took to resolve them.

• Getting Beyond the Barriers and Filling the Toolbox: Round-up of Delegates' Ideas (200KB PDF)
  After the morning and afternoon panels, delegates discussed the barriers at work and recorded what solutions they would take back to their own workplace.