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Complex Issues. Clear Solutions Management Workshop:
This award-winning training enables management to more effectively
Discuss sensitive or contentious issues with employees
- Resolve conflicts more effectively
- Separate performance issues from mental health issues
- Create accommodation strategies that work
- Avoid discrimination and human rights violations
At your site, your managers will learn and apply effective techniques through open group discussions and exercises. Video clips illustrate the challenges faced by managers and provide common discussion points. Through the video participants hear from real employees who have experienced mental illness in the workplace. The Mental Health Works Participant’s Guide will be given to managers as a complement to the course. This invaluable reference tool will allow managers to identify challenges, clarify procedures and develop accommodations that work.
- Only trainers certified by CMHA deliver this workshop
- Certified trainers are located in Ontario, British Columbia, and the Maritimes to deliver Mental Health Works workshops
- Cost: $250 per participant (including materials and resources, but not including expenses), for a minimum of 12 participants and a maximum of 16 participants for each workshop.
- If you prefer, you can choose a series of three 3-hour sessions at a cost of $350 per participant (plus expenses) for all three workshops with a minimum of 12 participants. This will provide you with all of the materials covered under the full-day workshop. We recommend that all three sessions be scheduled within one month of each other to ensure continuity of learning
Other Presentations and Workshops
Learn about the issues around mental health in the workplace with these one- to four-hour presentations. Schedule one of the following presentations for your next training session, conference, retreat, staff, union or association meeting, lunch & learn, or power breakfast.
These multimedia presentations range from one-hour information sessions up to four hours as an interactive session with exercises and group discussion. Each presentation includes video clips of real people who live with mental health issues, describing their symptoms and the effects of mental health issues on the workplace.
All presentations can be customized for your situation and guest speakers who live and work with mental health issues can often be added to expand the experience for your audience.
*Please contact us to discuss costs as we have some flexibility
Select from the following presentations:
1. NEW Mental Health and Psychological Safety: the role of the Joint Workplace Health and Safety Committee This workshop is designed for the Health and Safety Committee Co-chairs and members. It addresses the role the Committee can play in the prevention and recognition of mental health issues in the workplace and actions to take once recognized. Return to Work strategies and how committee members can increase the chance of a successful and workable return to work plan are discussed.
Cost: please call for more information. Cost is $2000 for up to 30 participants.
2. Awareness of Workplace Mental Health
This 1-2 hour presentation is intended for employees and general audiences. It uses video and stories to help build awareness of what it is like to experience conditions like depression or anxiety at work. The objectives are to reduce discomfort in talking about these issues, reduce fear when faced with a co-worker who is ill, and increase our ability to respond in a supportive manner. This presentation has been shown at workplaces across the country and to conference and meeting goers everywhere. It has always been enthusiastically received as ‘thought-provoking’, ‘fascinating’, and ‘engaging’. Cost is $800 plus expenses for any size audience.
3. Workplace Influence
Workplace Influence is a 3-hour presentation intended for all employees. It engages the audience in considering how our responses to workplace challenges and stressors can affect our well-being and the well-being of those around us. The information presented is based on research into the factors that influence our mental health at work. We ask the participants to consider ways in which they can positively influence both their own mental health and that of their co-workers. The objective is for employees to be more aware of how to take control of their own responses at work, how to reduce stress from things outside their control, and how to help co-workers who seem to be losing control. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for any size audience.
4. Issues and Solutions
This dynamic 1.5-2 hour presentation is for those that want an overview of the Mental Health Works approach. We discuss our philosophy, our strategy and provide some level of awareness and recognition of mental health issues in the workplace. This fascinating look at the issues and solutions is provocative and engaging. We share our stories about challenging, but successful cases that will change the way you think about these issues forever. It is suitable for a wide range of audiences and has been delivered in boardrooms and auditoriums to groups ranging from 4 to 200. It was originally developed for high-level executives who want to know what Mental Health Works is all about. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for any size audience.
5. Assisting Workers with Mental Health Issues
This 3-hour workshop is intended for union representatives and stewards. It is a unique look at the role of the union in helping members through workplace conflict, accommodation, and disability issues. It helps increase recognition of the early signs of mental health problems, considers how to effectively encourage members to seek help, and discusses workplace hazards that may contribute to mental health problems. If your union members rely on you as an advocate and confidante in times of needs, this workshop can help you to reduce your own discomfort or uncertainty in fulfilling this very important role. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for any size audience.
6. Human Resources: Return-to-Work Strategies
This 3-4 hour workshop is for human resources personnel who become involved in the return-to-work or performance management of people with mental health issues. We use case studies to engage participants in considering approaches to the most difficult situations including behavioural issues, fear of violence, perception of “faking it”, and the hostility of co-workers or supervisors towards the individual. We look at this honestly and candidly to assist you in your role of helping people remain productive at work. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for audiences of 50 or less.
7. Affecting Workplace Mental Health
This 3-hour workshop looks at systemic and organizational factors that affect the mental health of workers. It asks participants to consider the factors that research show have a protective or negative impact and to create action plans for those items that affect their own unique workplace situation. This workshop is intended for those who have the power to influence or change workplace processes and wish to do so in a way that will positively affect the mental health of workers. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for audiences of 50 or less.
8. Occupational Health Strategies: Return-to-Work after Mental Illness
This 3-4 hour workshop looks at the role of occupational health professionals in facilitating a successful return to work for people who have experienced mental illness. We address working with physician notes that are unclear, supervisors who do not ‘believe’ this person ‘deserves’ an accommodation, management who thinks you should not send people back to work until you ‘fix’ them and employees who do not seem able to access effective treatment. If this sounds familiar, you will enjoy the case studies presented and especially the practical strategies that you can use to overcome some of these challenges. Cost is $1500 plus expenses for audiences of 50 or less.
9. Managing the Return-to-Work
This 3-4 hour presentation is for managers/supervisors who already have a good working knowledge of mental health and communication skills. This can include people who have attended previous Mental Health Workshops and want to get more ‘hands on’ in how they juggle the competing interests of the returning employee, co-workers, organizational demands and their own time management, especially when the return-to-work involves a history of workplace conflict, performance issues, or behavioural problems. This workshop is especially relevant for those managers who do not have an occupational health or human resources department to handle this for them. Cost is $200 per participant plus expenses with a minimum of 12.
Learn More About Mental Health Works Training and Tools:
EMAIL: mentalhealthworks@cmhamanitoba.ca
PHONE: 1-204-953-2353 |
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