Mental Health Notes A free biweekly newsletter published by the Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario, featuring mental health news and events.

The “Workplaces” issue of Visions, BC’s Mental Health and Addictions Journal.

Includes articles by Mary Ann Baynton,  Jennifer Lynch (Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission), Ali Dastmalchian (Dean, Faculty of Business, U Victoria), Drs. Joti Samra, Merv Gilbert, Raymond Lam;   personal perspectives, etc.  www.heretohelp.bc.ca/publications/visions

For print copies, which are $7 each + S&H, please contact info@cmha.bc.ca

Mending Minds: The 2008 Mental Health Research Showcase

Consortium for Organizational Mental Healthcare" (COMH) : Attached you will find a list of some of manuals including a short write-up, and the direct link to self-care resources

Health: Working throught the bad times March 2009

Mental Health Works: Helping open eyes—and minds—about mental health in the workplace

Canadian Council on Learning February 2009

The Stress Sandwich Globe and Mail article Jan 19, 2009

The downturn is especially cruel when you're squeezed between your staff's ever-increasing anxieties and your bosses' cost-cutting expectations. But now's not the time to freak out. Sarah Boesveld reports

Press Release: Ontario Human Rights Commission; Human Rights at Work handbook now available.

Millions of Workdays Lost to Mental Illness

Workplace mental health training offered Employer’s lack of understanding and compassion about mental illness can cause employees to take a leave of absence and eventually to quit. Training is avaible to help employers, managers and employees improve their workplaces.

Stressed workers' mental health at risk With increasing rates of anxiety and depression in the workplace it should reassure you to know that people across the country and world are working to protect your mental health. This October Calgary is hosting a conference to address the effects of on-the-job depression.

Ontario court stands up to fight the stigma of mental illness Canadian employers may not like an Ontario court's decision objecting to the firing of an employee with a major mental illness. But the ruling in the case of Paul Lane, who was fired eight days into the job when he began acting strangely, struck a blow against the stigma of mental illness.

"It's not the work...it's the way the work is organized...that matters" Study ranks most stressful jobs, see Oct 4, 2007 National Post article for full story.

Treating depressed workers boosts productivity, retention: Study

CBC reports on study "Enhanced Depression Treatment and work Outcomes" released in the Sept 26th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 

Employer Innovations; Employer Innovations Online helps employers take action to address mental health at the workplace by providing case examples of successful corporate approaches.

Canada Workplaces deal with Anxiety and Depression