Wellness and disability professionals

Workplace Strategies for Mental Health provides hundreds of free tools. Wellness and disability professionals asked us to highlight the resources most relevant to their role.

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The ever-evolving evidence about what supports wellness both for those who currently have a disability and for those trying to stay well can be a challenge. Our resources and tools have been developed in consultation with experts and researchers to ensure credibility. They have been piloted with people with lived experience to ensure they are both practical and effective.

You can trust us to continually review, improve and update these resources for you. Topics include: 

We have free evidence-based resources to help you with all of this.

Being a wellness or disability professional requires you to find evidence-based strategies that are also cost-efficient and effective. We can help.

Employee work, health and caregiver issues

Workplace Strategies has many resources to support well-being for employees and their families. There are resources available to:

Referring employees to resources suggests tactful words to use when referring employees to resources for a variety of reasons. You can adapt these words for any resource. 

Accommodation planning

The goal of accommodation is to remove barriers to help an employee remain productive and feel supported despite any existing condition or disability. Accommodation planning for leaders provides key considerations and resources you can use throughout the accommodation process.

Employee mental health issues provides resources to help resolve conflict, manage performance, deal with co-worker reactions and support a successful return to work after a leave.

A tool to support employee success is a process that helps you engage the employee to develop solutions that support their productivity and well-being. 

Employee burnout

Burnout can result in decreased job satisfaction, increased turnover rates, and decreased employee morale, making it a pressing concern for wellness and disability professionals.

Policies, programs and prevention strategies

Mental health policies and programs can help you inform policies and programs related to:

Policies, programs and prevention also has information about:

Wellness initiatives

Our wellness awareness program calendar has themes and ideas for each month that include links to free resources from a wide variety of health and cultural organizations. 

 Examples of monthly strategies that include resources available at no cost:

  • Black History Month
  • Mental Health Wellness Month
  • World Health Day
  • International Stress Awareness Week

Additional resources

Approaches for people leaders includes strategies to address employee concerns, develop leadership skills and support team building.

Organizational strategies are for decision-makers who are responsible for policies, programs and prevention strategies or to support workplace mental health and psychological health and safety for all.

There are also many free assessments, tools and workshop materials that include slide presentations, facilitator guides and participant handouts.

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