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Fall 2018 MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID (MHFA) & RETURN TO WORK (RTW) 101 Workshops

Prevention Link is thrilled to offer a comprehensive Mental Health First Aid workshop that gives participants the skills to provide help to a person developing a mental health problem, and our Return to Work 101 course that explores strategies to assist workers’ with disabilities and help return them to long-term healthy and productive employment.

Who should attend: Anyone in a role with whom workers make contact following a workplace injury or with disability accommodation requests: workers, employers, union reps, stewards, supervisors.

Click on the dates below to register: 

One-course package options:

Two-course package options:

Cost:
One-Course Package (Mental Health First Aid $ 499. per person or Return to Work 101 $ 200. per person)
(**Cost includes accommodation, course material, guided instruction, certificate of completion, meals)

Two-Course Package (Mental Health First Aid & Return to Work 101 taken together): $699.00 per person.
(**Cost includes accommodation, course material, guided instruction, certificate of completion, meals)

DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM HERE.

Mental Health First Aid and Return to Work 101

Prevention Link is pleased to offer:

  • Mental Health First Aid course, on behalf of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, to gives participants the skills to provide assistance to a person developing a mental health issue or experiencing a mental health crisis.
  • Return to Work 101 a course to provide participants with the tools to develop strategies to assist workers with disabilities and return them to long-term healthy and productive employment.

Who should attend: Anyone in a role with whom workers make contact following a workplace injury or with disability accommodation requests: workers, employers, union reps, stewards, supervisors.

Dates Options:

  • Mental Health First Aid » Oct. 29 – 30, 2018; and Return to Work 101 » Oct. 31, 2018 (Check In: October 28, Check Out: October 31)
  • Return to Work 101 » Oct. 31, 2018; and Mental Health First Aid » Nov. 1 – Nov. 2, 2018 (Check In: October 30, Check Out: November 2)

Cost:
Two-Course Package (Mental Health First Aid & Return to Work 101 taken together): $699.00 per person.
(**Cost includes accommodation, course material, guided instruction, certificate of completion, meals)

DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM HERE.

Return to Work 101 and Mental Health First Aid

Prevention Link is pleased to offer:

  • Mental Health First Aid course, on behalf of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, to gives participants the skills to provide assistance to a person developing a mental health issue or experiencing a mental health crisis.
  • Return to Work 101 a course to provide participants with the tools to develop strategies to assist workers with disabilities and return them to long-term healthy and productive employment.

Who should attend: Anyone in a role with whom workers make contact following a workplace injury or with disability accommodation requests: workers, employers, union reps, stewards, supervisors.

Dates Options:

  • Mental Health First Aid » Oct. 29 – 30, 2018; and Return to Work 101 » Oct. 31, 2018 (Check In: October 28, Check Out: October 31)
  • Return to Work 101 » Oct. 31, 2018; and Mental Health First Aid » Nov. 1 – Nov. 2, 2018 (Check In: October 30, Check Out: November 2)

Cost:
Two-Course Package (Mental Health First Aid & Return to Work 101 taken together): $699.00 per person.
(**Cost includes accommodation, course material, guided instruction, certificate of completion, meals)

DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM HERE.

Mental Health First Aid

Prevention Link is thrilled to offer this two-day course gives participants the skills to provide assistance to a person developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. Just as physical first aid is administered to an injured person before medical treatment can be offered or until the crisis is resolved. **Participants must be present for the full length of the course in order to be certified.

Courses offered: 

Who should attend: Anyone

Cost:
One-Course Package (Mental Health First Aid): $499.00 per person

Click here to register for the two-Course Package (Mental Health First Aid & Return to Work 101 taken together): $699.00 per person.
(**Cost includes accommodation, course material, guided instruction, certificate of completion, meals)

REGISTER BELOW OR DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM HERE.

Bell Let’s Talk: Occupational Mental Health

Prevention Link is pleased to recognize Bell Let’s Talk Day. 

It’s a disheartening fact that one in five Canadians will suffer from mental illness at some point in their lifetime. Stigma is one of the biggest hurdles for anyone suffering from mental illness and remains a significant barrier that discourages many Ontarians from talking about mental illness in the workplace.

Statistics reveal that:

  • 64 per cent of Ontario workers would be concerned about how work would be affected if a colleague had a mental illness;
  • 39 per cent of Ontario workers indicate that they would not tell their managers if they were experiencing a mental health problem; and
  • 40 per cent of respondents to a 2016 survey agreed they have experienced feelings of anxiety or depression but never sought medical help for it.

While there are significant gains to be made, the addition of Chronic Mental Stress as a compensation coverage under Ontario’s workers’ compensation system, effective January 1, 2018, is a victory to be celebrated. Under the new Traumatic Mental Stress policy, a worker is entitled to benefits for traumatic mental stress arising out of and in the course of the worker’s employment.

Everyone has a pivotal role to play in preventing work-related chronic mental stress.

Prevention Link can help!

Our Occupational Mental Health and Illness 101 workshop aims to educate Ontario workers on the basics, including the language used to describe mental illnesses in the workplace and current facts of mental illness that will enable participants to better dismantle stigma in their respective workplaces.

Additionally, if you or a co-worker are challenged with a mental health concern at work, visit The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) for more information and help today. OHCOW also offers StressAssess, a free evidence-based online survey tool designed to assist workplaces in identifying psychosocial hazards that can lead to stress and mental injury, providing suggestions and pathways to address them, and thus preventing harm.

 

OFL and Prevention Link Proudly Support Mental Illness Awareness Week

(TORONTO, ON) ─ This October 1-7, we recognize Mental Illness Awareness Week across Canada and rise in solidarity with our many Ontario sisters and brothers who live with the debilitating reality of mental illness every day.

In any given week, at least 500,000 employed Canadians are unable to work due to mental health challenges, with the stigma associated with mental illness a primary reason that keeps many Ontarians from talking about mental illness, in their workplace or at home.

“There is a critical need for increased conversation about occupational mental illness and awareness in our workplaces,” said Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) Secretary-Treasurer Patty Coates. “That’s why we successfully introduced an Occupational Mental Health and Illness Awerness 101 workshop to expand the conversation around the various mental health challenges many Ontario workers face, and to end the associated stigma.”

To date, the popular half-day session led by mental health nurse, academic, and advocate Dr. Wendy Stanyon, has welcomed more than 250 working Ontarians in seven cities across the province. The next workshop is scheduled for the week of October 22.

“Having attended the workshop several times myself, along with our OFL team, I have become more aware of the basic language used to describe mental illnesses in the workplace and some truly important facts on mental illness that is helping our team to better dismantle stigma in our workplaces,” said Coates. “I strongly encourage our sisters and brothers to join the conversation on mental illness and help break the stigma.”

To help spread the word about Mental Illness Awareness Week, post or tweet #MIAW17.

If you or a co-worker are challenged with a mental health concern at work, visit The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) for more information and help today.

Prevention Link, a Government of Ontario supported initiative administered by the Ontario Federation of Labour Executive Committee, is the leading provider of training and advisory support on secondary prevention of workplace injury in the province. For information, visit preventionlink.ca and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

The OFL represents 54 unions and one million workers in Ontario. For information, visit www.OFL.ca and follow @OFLabour on Facebook and Twitter.

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For further information:

Ogho Ikhalo,
Senior Communications & Outreach Specialist
Prevention Link
416-443-7654
oikhalo@preventionlink.ca
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