Supporting and Leading Employees with Mental Health Concerns

This training is designed to provide leaders within a workplace-environment with the necessary information and strategies to build positive mental health for all employees while effectively supporting individual employees with mental health concerns.

Speaker Information:

Julie Allain, Manager of Programs 

Canadian Mental Health Association of New Brunswick

Module Outline:

1. Exploring the Mental Health Continuum
   • Factors which may influence a person’s risk of developing a mental illness
   • The Mental Health & Mental Illness Continuum
   • Understanding different types of mental illnesses
   • Treatment & Recovery
   • CMHA Community Based Resource Model
   • Stigma & Vulnerability
2. Mental Health & Illness in the Workplace
   • Understanding the stress response
   • Dynamics of demand/control and effort/reward
   • Workplace mental health and work-life balance
   • Workplace and performance warning signs
   • Disclosure in the workplace
   • Making a difference in your workplace
3. Practical Strategies for Support & Communication
   • Building mental and emotional wellness in workplace
   • How can an employer help?
   • Steps for assessing an employee’s needs for accommodations
   • Principles and types of accommodations for mental health concerns
   • Effective practices for when an employee returns to work
   • Support/communication strategies
4. Preventing Crisis, Burnout and Suicide, Understanding Community Resources
   • Introduction to basic crisis management, and understanding crisis development
   • Developing a wellness/crisis action plan
   • Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma
   • Where to go: Understanding community resources