Mental illness and mental health challenges are increasingly prevalent in Canadian workplaces. Employers care about the health and wellbeing of employees but often feel unsure about how to support an employee who may be struggling with a mental health challenge or illness. This workshop increases awareness of mental illness in the workplace and explores the following concepts:

• Identifying symptoms of burnout, a mental health challenge, or illness (and distinguishing the differences).
• The legal imperatives: Duty to Inquire and Duty to Accommodate.
• How to talk to an employee that you think might be experiencing a mental health challenge.
• How to separate struggling performance or “bad behavior” from illness.
• How to look after your own mental health (put your oxygen mask on first!).

Workshop attendees will leave with tangible and practical tips and tools to apply in the workplace.

Hire for Talent Overview

Hire for Talent is a national awareness campaign aimed at increasing employer confidence in hiring people with disabilities and provides resources to help employers tap into this talent pool during their search for skilled workers.

Delivered by CBDC Restigouche, Hire for Talent is designed to address the coming need for workforce diversity. This initiative is focused on disability as the primary diversity demographic because experience shows that this diversity group has a profound impact on workplace inclusion. Hiring workers with disabilities generates measurable improvements to a workplace’s culture, morale, staff retention, safety and innovation.

Meet the Speaker

Kristin Bower (Leda HR)
Kristin brings over two decades of Human Resources experience creating equitable and inclusive workplaces to a wide variety of clients as an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) consultant. She was Vancity Credit Union’s first Manager of Diversity and works with clients in the areas of EDI strategy development and audits, disability and inclusive employment programs, mental health awareness and psychologically safe and heathy workplaces, equitable attraction and recruitment processes design, and unconscious bias training. Kristin is the co-author of the provincially and federally funded Untapped Talent: B2B Guide to Innovative Hiring and Retention. She is has also written many tools for the Hire for Talent Toolkit and works as an EDI editor for Pearson reviewing post-secondary level textbooks for inclusive language prior to publishing.

Previously recognized with Open Door Group’s UnTapped Award for her mental health advocacy work, she is a frequent speaker at conferences and has collaborated with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and the Conference Board of Canada. She recently served as guest editor for Visions magazine and her writing has been published in People Talk and magazines and the intelliHR blog, among other publications. She has been featured in the Globe and Mail and on CBC Radio and Roundhouse Radio. Kristin holds an Award of Achievement in Diversity & Inclusion from the University of British Columbia studied Human Resources Management at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Pricing

FREE!

Don't miss out on the remaining sessions of our Accessible Workplace Series!

Creating Meaningful Access in the Workplace - June 24

Supporting ADHD in the Workplace - Sept 23

Accessible Workplaces: Supporting People with Disabilities - Oct 21