Wellness Resources will be hosting a 5 hour, two-part training session for faculty and staff focuses on workplace mental health and wellness.
The Working Mind: Workplace Mental Health and Wellness, is an education-based program designed to address and promote mental health and change behaviours and attitudes toward people living with mental illness, helping to ensure people are treated fairly and as full citizens with opportunities to contribute to society like anyone else. Program participants have shown an increase in resiliency skills and mental health wellbeing and a decrease in stigmatizing attitudes.
Launched by Mental Health Commission of Canada in 2013, The Working Mind was developed by clinicians and peers and based on scientific research and best-practices.
The session will:
- focus on dispelling the myths of mental health problems and mental illnesses, aiming to reduce associated stigma
- give an overview of the Mental Health Continuum Model
- offer self-assessment of one’s own mental health along the continuum
- give strategies one can apply at each point along the continuum
- The goals of the session are:
- to support the mental health and wellbeing of employees
- to enable the full productivity of employees
- to ensure the workplace is respectful and inclusive of all employees, including those with mental health problems and mental illness
- to encourage employees to seek help for mental health problems and mental illness
For more information contact: wellnessresources@usask.ca.
