READ:

Understanding Your Role in Promoting Mental Health at Work

• Read Mental Health at Work: What Can I Do? A resource guide that highlights what leaders, supervisors, co-coworkers, and individuals experiencing mental health challenges can do to create work environments that support mental health.

Create Mentally Healthy Workplaces

• Several national centers and initiatives are already focused on creating mentally healthy workplaces. Their webpages provide numerous resources and case studies of organizations implementing workplace changes you may want to explore:

• • Center for Workplace Mental Health, sponsored by the American Psychiatric Foundation

• •  The Workplace Mental Health Toolkit, created by EARN

• Read An Owner’s Guide to Creating and Implementing a Mental Health Program to learn how one organization created an employee mental health program. Use their assessment tool to identify the best practices to implement within your organization.

• Read Working Well: Leading a Mentally Healthy Business to learn about some best practices and resources for developing a mentally healthy workplace.

Have Conversations about Mental Health in the Workplace

• Read Workplace Mental Health: A Conversation Guide for Managers to learn how managers can create a safe environment for employees to talk about their mental health and how managers can safely start the conversation.

• Read this short article about how to respond to an employee who shares a mental health concern with you.

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WATCH or LISTEN:

Focus on Employee Mental Health Needs

• Watch this short video that describes how employers can and should focus on the mental health of their employees: Mental Health at Work Video (U.S. Department of Labor)

• Watch this 10 minute video about how to talk to employees about their mental health.

• Assess your workplace conditions for promoting mental health by using this checklist on creating a mentally healthy workplace to assess your organization.

• Share the Workplace Mental Health Playbook with your organizational staff and leaders. This toolkit provides an excellent set of policies and practices organizations can put into place to support Mental Health within the workplace.

• Engage in conversations around your mental health with your employer: How to Talk about Your Mental Health with Your Employer

• Consider introducing the resources listed above within your own organization to make conversations around mental health more comfortable and welcomed.