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Ann Baynton, RSW, MSW
Mary Ann is a consultant for the award-winning program Mental Health Works, which is an initiative of the Canadian Mental Health Association of Ontario. She is a registered social worker and holds an M.S.W. in Social Policy. Her research was in the field of innovation and empowerment in policy implementation. Her background includes 15 years in the corporate world as a manager and business owner and 8 years as a Nationally Certified Coach.
Currently she serves on the Mental Health Commission of Canada Workforce Advisory Committee and the Accessibility for Ontarian’s with Disabilities Employment Standards Committee and as the Program Director for the Great-West Life Centre for Mental Health in the Workplace. Her current work includes consulting on complex accommodation or return-to-work situations as well as working to improve unhealthy workplace relations. Mary Ann has developed training, presentations, publications, self-study CD's and workshops in both official languages that address the issues arising from employees experiencing mental health issues at work.
Topics include
- Managing mental health issues in the workplace
- Performance management where mental health is a factor
- Managing the duty to accommodate
- Creative and productive accommodation ideas
- Busting stereotypes around mental health issues
- Addressing workplace harassment around mental health issues
Donna Hardaker
Recovery from Mental Illness - Getting Ill, Getting Well, Staying Well
Donna Hardaker speaks powerfully about her experience with mental illness and recovery, with insights into how we can each be aware of risk factors to our own mental health. She shares how she handles the challenge of maintaining health and prioritizing self care. She talks about the role of the workplace in helping or harming mental health, and what we can do to create positive work environments.
Donna delivers this talk in a relaxed, conversational style, as she describes it, as if she and the audience are sitting, having a coffee and she’s asked: So what happened to you?”
She believes that by telling her story, and allowing the audience to ask any and all questions, any fear or misunderstanding they may have about mental illness can be reduced, and workplaces can become healthier and more inclusive for all. Her reflections on her personal experience of having depression and anxiety while trying to stay productive at work contributed significantly to the tone and approach of Mental Health Works.
Donna is a Specialist in Workplace Mental Health for CMHA York where she delivers the Mental Health Works program. She is a public speaker at education and training events for return to work and accommodation, disability management, human rights and accessibility in the workplace, health and safety, applied public health, and employee wellness.
Renée Ouimet
Renée is the Director of the Capacity Building and Education Division at Canadian Mental health Association, Ottawa Branch. She is a registered social worker in Ontario and obtained her master’s degree in social work from the Maritime School of Social Work at Dalhousie University.
As a certified trainer with Mental Health Works, she delivers presentations in both English and French to employees to assist them in becoming aware of mental health issues in the workplace and to employers to assists then in acquiring knowledge and skills to more effectively deal with employee mental health issues and create workplace agreements or accommodation plans that work.
Renée has over twenty years experience in working within the mental health system as well as with employee accommodation.
Margaret Tebbutt
Margaret Tebbutt is the Manager of the Mental Health Works (MHW) program for the Canadian Mental Health Association, BC Division. As a Certified Trainer, she delivers presentations to help mployees become aware of mental health in the workplace, and workshops to help managers develop the knowledge and skills to more effectively discuss mental health issues with employees and create accommodation strategies that work. Margaret incorporates her personal experience with major depression and anxiety disorders in talks she gives about mental health in the workplace. Contact mentalhealthworks@cmha.bc.ca
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