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Thank you for taking the time to participate in the Youth Justice Occupational Stress Employee Survey for Youth Justice Division employees. The Youth Justice Division is committed to supporting healthy, respectful, and sustainable workplaces. Your experiences and perspectives are essential to helping us better understand what is working well and where additional supports may be needed. By sharing your input, you are contributing to a broader effort to strengthen the psychosocial work environment for Youth Justice employees.

This is a survey of the psychosocial factors in the Youth Justice Division workplace. It is based on the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ III) and has been customized to address concerns particular to the Ontario workplace context. The Mental Injury Tool Group was responsible for its development, and more information is available at https://www.ohcow.on.ca/mental-injury-toolkit/.

This survey was designed to identify psychosocial factors at work that may affect people’s mental or physical well-being, such as stress levels, energy, sleep, or focus. The purpose is to identify factors which could be addressed to improve the psychosocial work climate at workplaces.

This survey is being conducted for the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW). OHCOW is a non‐government, not‐for‐profit organization that operates seven occupational health clinics throughout Ontario. The goal of OHCOW is to protect and improve the health of working people by providing clinical and prevention services including research. OHCOW takes part in and shares research with policy‐makers, workers and workplaces, clinicians, health & safety professionals and the general public. OHCOW operates with support from the Ontario Ministry of Labour Immigration, Training and Skills Development (MLITSD); however, OHCOW has a separate Board of Directors which is accountable to the MLITSD for funding. More information about OHCOW is available on our website (www.ohcow.on.ca)

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Voluntary Participation
You are under no obligation to participate in the survey. Any information you give today will be strictly confidential.

Risks
There are no known significant risks from participating in this survey. You can refuse to answer any question in the survey. OHCOW will keep all information you provide strictly confidential.

Benefits:
You may not receive any benefit from your participation in this survey. However, many people value the opportunity to share their experiences anonymously. The information learned from this survey will help OHCOW and the Youth Justice Division to better understand and address stress in the workplace.

Confidentiality and Privacy

All the individual information collected through this survey is confidential and will be viewed only by the researchers directly involved in this project (which may include people not employed by OHCOW). No information that could be used to identify you will be kept by the research team. It will not be given to others, including the MLITSD, the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board of Ontario or anyone in your workplace. OHCOW will never identify you in any way in any presentations or publications that result from this project.

The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers works with various unions, labour support organizations, and academics to analyze trends across the province and to understand the dynamics and impact of the workplace psychosocial environments. Your participation by completing this questionnaire will assist all of these people and organizations in this effort to improve the psychosocial climate in Ontario workplaces.

Survey responses are confidential. Your manager will not be informed of your participation. No individual or raw data is shared with the union or employer, including your manager.

Please do not include any information that could identify you, other employees, or any youth including any information protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA).

For more information about privacy, you may contact OHCOW’s Dave Wilken, Privacy Officer by email (dwilken@ohcow.on.ca) or phone: 416-510-8713.

By participating in this survey you have consented to the use of your survey responses in group reports. All reports or publications derived from the survey responses will be presented in a format which ensures that the identity of any individual respondent is not revealed and kept confidential. If other workers in general may benefit, the survey results may be disseminated (properly anonymized) through various means including presentations, websites, and trade & academic publications, etc..

I accept these conditions and consent to continue this survey:

The survey asks participants to reflect on experiences that could be triggering including experiences of conflict or offensive behaviours (such as sexual harassment, bullying and vicarious trauma). Before you take the survey, think about what might support you. Some examples include, but are not limited to:

  • planning and blocking time to take the survey and leave yourself a bit of extra time after you finish before continuing your day
  • take your time and take breaks when you need to
  • sit somewhere comfortable without a lot of loud noises or bright lights
  • sit next to someone who you trust and feel good being around
  • choose the most accurate response even if it does not match your exact response
  • come back to questions if you find yourself overthinking the response
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