Healthy Workplace Resource Hub

Healthy Workplace Resource Hub

“We can build workplaces that are engines of well-being, showing workers that they matter, that their work matters, and that they have the workplace resources and support necessary to flourish.” US Department of Health and Human Services

Thanks for joining our collective effort to create healthier work environments! The work we do and the places where we work play a significant role in our lives, influencing our physical and mental health in good and bad ways. When workplaces nurture mental health and well-being, employees and their families flourish; when they don’t employees experience stress and burnout and their health and mental health can deteriorate. Workplaces also experience the consequences of employee stress, burnout and poor mental health: recruitment efforts struggle, turnover rates increase, effectiveness and productivity decrease, and the bottom-line can suffer. ( The U.S. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being)

So how can we create places where employees thrive? Research has well established that the most effective strategy we can pursue is to focus on creating healthy workplace conditions (Harvard/MIt Workplace initiative). This involves more than offering workplace wellness programs and instead emphasizes the way employees are treated, how roles and responsibilities are defined and organized, if relationships are nurtured, and the extent to which organizations normalize talking about and supporting mental health.

The Healthy Workplaces Resource Hub was created so employees, managers, and organizational leaders can easily find tips, protocols, policies, strategies and tools for creating healthy workplace conditions. The Hub includes resources curated from many of the healthy workplace centers and initiatives around the nation and across northwest Michigan. We view this as a shared community resource and welcome your additions to the Hub. Just contact us at [email protected] to share your tools, policies etc with the region.

Just click on any of the topics below to learn more about this topic and to go to the relevant resource webpage.

Have questions about the Healthy Workplace Resource Hub? Just email us at [email protected].

Thanks for joining our collective effort to build healthy workplaces!

Just click on a topic to learn more and find resources, including articles, videos, and podcasts. Identify actions you can take to support a healthy work environment within your own organization.