Your Mental Health Matters

Mental health is just as important as your physical health. Below are resources designed to help you with the topic.

• Care for Caregivers – Free Online Mental Health Resources
• Care to Speak – Peer Support Chatline
• “Bear in Mind” – Smartphone Game
• Moral Injury Guide

• Take Time for Your Mental Health Webinar Slides
  • Webinar 1 Slides: Awareness of Mental Health
    This webinar is designed to help build comfort in talking about mental health and mental illness and learn how to respond in a supportive way to co-workers who may be experiencing a mental illness. This webinar is suitable for employees and general audiences.
  • Webinar 2 Slides: Responding With Respect
    This webinar will help staff gain confidence and the tools to work with residents and clients who may be experiencing distress due to mental illness or stress. Recognize who may be experiencing a mental health problem, be able to respond to them and refer them to further help.
  • Webinar 3 Slides: Introduction to Psychological Health and Safety
    Those in management roles will learn how to promote mental health and address mental illness, including addiction, in the workplace from a health and safety perspective. This webinar includes a review of local policies or regulations and provides an overview of the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace.
• Compassion Fatigue – Webinar Slide
• Workplace Civility Webinar Recap
• Walking on Sunshine: A Conversation about Stress and Fatigue
• Strategies for Self-care
• Self-care is not Selfish

• “What Are You Afraid Of?” – SafeCare BC Article
• Managing the Negative Effects of Anxiety on Sleep
• How to Practice Self-Compassion