Workplace Emerging Best Practices

Mood Disorders Society of Canada (MDSC) and Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) are working with our national and regional partners to support the workplaces of our country. We wish to do this by sharing what is showing positive results to support mentally healthy employment environments. We began by researching for best/ promising practices internationally and have finalized the Workplace Mental Health Strategies-A Search for Promising Practices report. The new research paper spotlights key facts internationally, but also leads to a real basic reality; we need to work together to better support all workplaces facing this significant mental health challenge.

We are looking at collecting information from Canadian workplaces, managers and staff so that we can highlight successful best and promising practices on our websites. The purpose of this project is to collect information from across the country, and to share key information for all Canadian workplaces on promising and successful programs, policies and supports that your workplaces have or are implementing that are helping your managers, staff, visitors, clients, members and students stay healthy. Tools that assist organizations to stay operational, mitigate risks and address mental illnesses and risks.

Please take (and share with others) this short (5-10 minute) survey where we will ask about your workplace and what your organization may have implemented to help with the mental wellness of your workplace. We depend on your help so that we can assist many other similar workplaces that may not have the programs that you have. Together, we will be able to support each other improve workplaces and reduce mental health risks.

Our plan is to highlight selected workplace policies/ programs so that other workplaces can see what you have, what is working, how it is helping so they can use these to replicate this approach.

Thank you for caring and thank you for sharing.

The MDSC and MHRC teams and our partners.

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* 1. Which province or territory do you live in?

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* 2. Which industry/sector do you work in?

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* 3. What is the approximate size of your workplace?

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* 4. What would you say more closely resembles your role in the company?

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* 5. Did you have a workplace mental health strategy before the COVID-19 pandemic?

Yes

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* 6. Has your workplace implemented new policies and supports to address any COVID-related concerns that employees might have? If yes, please detail what you consider the top two or three changes.

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* 7. Please tell us how you or your workplace are taking concrete action to address the increase in mental illness and mental health issues, such as anxiety, in your changing work environment due to covid, and how these changes are impacting the mental wellbeing of employees throughout the pandemic.

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* 8. Has your employment situation changed as a result of the pandemic?

Yes

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* 9. Can you describe which promising or best practice your workplace offers?

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* 10. If you are willing, please provide your company's name/ website URL

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* 11. If there is no promising practice, please describe the biggest gap you would like to see addressed.

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* 12. We wish to contact a selection of best/ promising practices and share their approaches and successes with other employers. If you are willing to be contacted or have your employers contact, please provide contact info.

We greatly appreciate you taking the time to provide this information. Please feel free to share this survey with others who may also wish to take it.