Two years into COVID-19 pandemic, a renewed focus on corporate mental health efforts

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Experts say too many boardrooms still only paying lip service to employee mental health

Wellness webinars. Corporate mental-health officers. Redesigned benefits. Extra long weekends.

“The goal is not to turn you and your entire team into doctors so you can diagnose people. It’s to make tools accessible to your colleagues to listen to you non-judgmentally and encourage you to access resources.” BounceBack is one online self-help program offered free of charge by the Canadian Mental Health Association for adults with moderate anxiety or depression. Online programs including MindBeacon and AbilitiCBT offer virtual therapy sessions, and are free in some provinces and covered by insurance plans in others.

“Unlike physical health, there seems to be a lot less patience and tolerance for things that impact our mental health,” said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer at the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents more than 700,000 workers in sectors ranging from education and health care to aviation.

“It’s not a checkmark exercise that ‘I’ve done this, okay, we’re done, thank you, we move on to something else.’ It is really a journey you have to commit to,” he said.

 

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