Audience:

Everyone

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation is our most basic introduction to workplace mental health. It provides a high-level introduction to Mental Health Works, mental health awareness, responding to some common issues, and the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Consider mental health as critical to overall health
• Understand mental health and common mental health problems
• Understand the impact of stigmatizing language and beliefs

Audience:

Everyone

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation provides a high-level overview of how mood impacts work. It takes a particular focus on depression in the workplace and guides participants through the Mental Health Works three-gear method of addressing it.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Consider mental health as critical to overall health
• Understand mental health and common mental health problems
• Understand the impact of stigmatizing language and beliefs

Audience:

Everyone

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation provides a high-level overview of how stress and anxiety might impact work. It takes a particular focus on anxiety in the workplace and guides participants through the Mental Health Works three-gear method of addressing it.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be exposed to an accessible and evidence-based introduction to stress and anxiety
• Begin to understand stress and anxiety and the barriers that can be faced in the workplace
• Start to understand how to talk openly about anxiety

Audience:

Those at risk (justice professionals)

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation provides a high-level overview of how posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and operational stress injury (OSI) might impact work. It takes a particular focus on OSIs in the workplace and guides participants through the Mental Health Works three-gear method of addressing it.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be exposed to an accessible and evidence-based introduction to traumatic stress
• Begin to see PTSD and OSIs as workplace injuries
• Start to understand how to talk openly about traumatic stress

Audience:

Everyone

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation provides a high-level overview of addictions and substance use concerns. Using the Mental Health Works three-gear method, participants will learn how to identify and talk about substance use in the workplace.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be exposed to an accessible and evidence-based introduction to addictions
• Begin to see substance use concerns and addictions as health concern
• Start to understand how to talk openly about substance use

Audience:

Everyone

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation provides a high-level overview of secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. Using the Mental Health Works three-gear method approach, participants will learn how to begin building resilient workplaces.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be exposed to an accessible and evidence-based introduction to secondary traumatic stress.
• Begin to see the ways in which they can implement protections in the workplace
• Start to understand how to talk openly about compassion fatigue

Audience:

Everyone

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation provides a high-level overview of psychological health and safety in the workplace. It introduces the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, as well as accommodation and return to work involving mental health.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be exposed to the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace
• Begin to see how psychosocial factors impact health and safety at work
• Start to understand how accommodation and return to work are applied to mental health

Audience:

Everyone

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation provides a high-level overview of how isolation and loneliness affect work, the workplace and our mental health. It focuses specifically on the experience of enforced isolation due to physical distancing measures, and provides concrete tools that can be used to mitigate the stress this causes.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be exposed to an accessible and evidence-based introduction to isolation and loneliness
• Begin to see how isolation and loneliness affect mental health and wellness
• Start to understand how to talk

Audience:

Everyone

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation is all about how a pandemic can cause intense feelings of anxiety regarding our health and the health of our loved ones and friends. Using evidence-based methods, it will impart skills managers and staff can use in the context of business resumption to mitigate anxiety about returning to the workplace in a latent COVID-19 environment.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be exposed to an accessible and evidence-based introduction to anxiety and the pandemic
• Understand what to do during business resumption activities
• Know how to have an open conversation about concerns, actions taken to mitigate risk, and how to accommodate vulnerable staff members’ mental health concerns

Audience:

Everyone

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation talks about mindfulness, what it is, what we can do to achieve it, and introduces staff to skills that can be used to improve health, wellness and performance. Being more mindful of our thoughts and feelings enables better conversation.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be exposed to an accessible and evidence-based introduction to the practice of mindfulness
• Understand what we can do to be grounded
• Know how to develop mindful practices to improve resiliency, and how businesses can create a culture of resiliency within their workplaces

Audience:

Everyone

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

With telework becoming more common during the COVID-19 pandemic, this session addresses the unique challenges this brings to caring for and about employee mental health. It will provide a high-level overview on how we can build psychologically-healthy and safe workplaces when the place of work is the home.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be introduced to concepts of psychological health and safety in a disseminated working environment
• Understand how to care for employee mental health in an asynchronous business resumption process
• Know how to managers and staff can engage in constructive conversations about their needs when they are not present in the physical workspace

Audience:

Everyone in a health care setting

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation covers the importance of resiliency and how to manage difficult situations and critical events within the health care environment. It will impart a high-level awareness on mental health and the unique challenges health care workers face given the uncertainty, stress, and long hours of their work.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be exposed to an accessible and evidence-based introduction to mental health in a health care setting
• Begin to understand that resiliency is something we can all train and improve upon
• Start to understand how to talk openly about mental health as a workplace

Audience:

Everyone in a health care setting

Length:

One hour

Description, objectives and messages:

This presentation covers those workers whose job it is to speak with clients over the phone or other communications means. Paying particular attention to the increase in workload as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, participants will learn how to manage stress, take ‘smart breaks,’ and ground themselves during difficult working conditions.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Be introduced to mindfulness as a concept
• Understand how stress impacts their lives
• Know how to manage feelings that arise when speaking with clients on the phone