Links and Tools
Awareness
Manager to Manager Network (M2M)
Description
Manager to Manager Network (M2M)
A place where managers at all levels (from Team leaders to ADM) can connect and empower each other to help sustain a psychologically healthy and safe workplace
Benefit from the experiences of fellow colleagues who have supported employees potentially coping with mental health related challenges.
To learn more, please visit the Manager to Manager Network
Free—Confidential—Across Canada
- M2M—Mini poster (PDF, 306 KB)
- M2M—Infographic
- M2M—Presentation Deck (PDF, 759 KB)
- Article: Managers working together to improve workplace mental health
- Article: Finding someone to listen to your questions about mental health in the workplace
- Article: Minding Mental Health in the workplace
- Article: Sharing knowledge and experience: taking action on mental health
Peer Support Program (PSP)
Description
Peer Support Program (PSP)
Peer support is a confidential, volunteer, non-clinical, mental health support that relies on the wisdom of individuals who have lived experience with mental health challenges of their own or those of a loved one and have found a path to recovery. Social and emotional support from a person with experience can inspire hope and empower others in similar situations.
- PSP—Poster 8.5x11 (PDF, 84 KB)
- PSP—Poster 11x17 (PDF, 89 KB)
- PSP—Infographic
- PSP—Poster – What Peer Supporters Have to Tell You
- PSP—Presentation Deck (PPTX, 1.58 MB)
Resources
- Strategy Triage Tool: Re-establishing priorities during the COVID-19 Crisis
- Empathetic Leaders
- Services to Assist You as an Employee or a Manager
- Mental Health Continuum
- Mental Health Passport—Resource for all employees
- Mental Health First Aid in the Workplace—Manager's Guide (PDF, 9 MB)
- Mental Health First Aid Training—Q & A for ESDC
- Mental Health—Examples of Accommodation Strategies for Functional Limitations Related to Psychological Job Demands (DOCX, 325 KB)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Offers confidential services (DOCX, 221 KB) to help employees and their families with concerns that affect their personal well-being and/or work performance. Provides advisory services to managers for support in exercising their role in workplace mental health related situations.
- LifeSpeak: Taking care of your mental health.
You will learn from leading mental health experts and pick up strategies about how to manage your own mental health and talk to your loved ones about theirs. You can watch videos, download action plans, and interact with world-class experts in real time.
- Office of Informal Conflict Management (OICM)
Explores several options available, including informal conflict management, when dealing with workplace conflict. - Disability Management
Provides guidance to managers when addressing health-related absences and return-to-work situations. - Occupational Health and Safety
Provides support in preventing and solving health and safety matters in the workplace, including office ergonomics. - Duty to Accommodate (DTA)
Enables ESDC employees to stay working by providing appropriate workplace accommodation up to the point of undue hardship.
External Resources
- Treasury Board Secretariat
- Public Health Agency of Canada: Mental Health
- Health Canada: Healthy Living—Mental Health
- The Stress Invasion: The Other Crisis in Climate Change (PDF, 153 KB)
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
- Canadian Mental Health Association
- Guarding Minds @ Work
- Jean-Pierre Brun: Bien-être et efficacité organisationnelle (in French only)
- Mental Health Commission of Canada
- Mental Health Works
- Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health
- Workplace Strategies for Mental Health