Text4Hope
An evidence-based and outcome-oriented daily Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) program helping people identify and adjust negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Subscribers receive a daily text message of support and encouragement to ease the stress and anxiety they may be feeling. Messages are written by mental health therapists.
Drop-in mindfulness sessions for healthcare providers
These 30-minute online mindfulness sessions guided by Canadian health professionals invite health workers to pause and make space to cultivate well-being and self-compassion. They can be accessed live or through videos of practices.
Careforcaregivers
A collection of mental health resources for health workers employed in long-term care, home and community care, or community social services.
Guideline on Managing Personal and Practice Health
Provides information on supports and resources for midwives who are experiencing mental health and addiction issues.
ECHO - Coping with COVID
This resource was launched in March 2020 for health workers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were invited to join ECHO sessions virtually through multi-point videoconference technology to share and learn about ways to build resilience and overall wellness through didactic lectures and case-based discussions.
Pause, Reset and Nourish Toolkit (PRN)
Strategies to help build connection to each other, ourselves and what is truly important in our lives.
Pandemic Acceptance and Commitment to Empowerment Response (PACER) Training
An online, blended, skills building intervention to increase the resilience and well-being of participants while promoting their individual and collective empowerment and capacity building. It is based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and social justice–based group empowerment psychoeducation (GEP).
Conflict Resolution Process and Bullying
This section of the Mental Health Toolkit provides information on how to deal with conflict and bullying in the workplace.
Virtual Simulations to Confront Racism and Bias in Health Professions Education
This article describes the development of an interprofessional educational training session using racial and social justice simulation incorporating trigger films.
Stigma
This section of the Mental Health Toolkit provides information on how to deal with stigma and discrimination associated with mental health issues in the workplace.
Introduction to Vicarious Trauma for Frontline Workers: A webinar
This two-part miniseries help frontline workers in developing an awareness and connection between the impacts of one’s own experiences, how to recognize signs leading to vicarious trauma, and learning strategies to help address vicarious trauma.