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.
Togetherall
An online community where people support each other anonymously to improve their mental health and wellbeing. The platform is accessible anywhere, anytime, 24/7. Canadians may have free access to it through post-secondary institutions, employers or health care organizations.
Frontline Wellness
Low-barrier access to individual counselling for health workers, frontline workers and first responders impacted by stress related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
MindShift CBT App
An app that helps to learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of anxiety. A new feature, the Community forum, now enables to find and offer peer-to-peer support.
Hope for Wellness Helpline
A helpline available to all Indigenous people across Canada. Experienced and culturally competent counsellors are reachable by telephone and online chat 24/7.
AbilitiCBT
This internet-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT) program addresses anxiety and depression. Morneau Shepell has partnered with the Government of Ontario to provide it for free to Ontarians aged 16 and over.
MindFit Toolkit - Mental Wellness for Men
Mental health tools and resources for men and their families. Backed by healthcare professionals to tackle chronic stress, anxiety, and mild to moderate depression.
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.
Psychological First Aid for Frontline Health Care Providers During COVID-19
A workbook for frontline health workers that aims to improve their well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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.
Psychological First Aid Courses
Two self-paced courses are available online: Self-Care and Caring for Others. Participants will learn about the impact of stress, trauma, and grief as well as useful tools for handling difficult situations.
Being a Mindful Employee: An Orientation to Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace
An online training program for employees. Its goal is to help employees understand the 13 psychosocial workplace factors from the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace.
Tolerance to Uncertainty: A COVID-19 Workbook
A practical guide to accepting feelings, tolerating distress, and thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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).
Psychosocial Factors: Workload Management
This short video emphasizes the ability to carry out the tasks assigned within a given timeframe. It gives an example of an employee who is having trouble managing her tasks and suggests solutions. It also summarizes certain advantages of properly managing a workload.
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.
Dealing with conflict
This section of Good Practices is an educational resource that offers guidance to physicians dealing with conflict in teams.
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.
The Working Mind Virtual
A program designed to promote mental health and reduce the stigma around mental illness in the workplace.
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.
Mental Health First Aid
This course covers the help provided to a person developing a mental health problem, experiencing the worsening of an existing mental health problem or in a mental health crisis.
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.
BounceBack
This free skill-building program is designed to help adults and youth 15+ manage low mood, mild to moderate depression and anxiety, stress or worry.
Tools to start a conversation about mental health
Conversation guides that can be used to lead discussion about mental health or talk with someone you might be concerned about.
Talk Suicide Canada
Provides nationwide, 24-hour, bilingual support to anyone who is facing suicide.
Returning to a shared workspace
This toolkit aims to support the mental health of individuals as they plan safe transitions back into their employer’s shared workspaces, and to help employers as they develop policies and procedures for supporting staff returning to a shared workspace.
Moral distress and COVID-19: how to recognize and cope with it
In a podcast from the Canadian Medical Protective Association, hosts Drs. Yolanda Madarnas and Steven Bellemare explore the topic of moral distress with psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Gérin-Lajoie, executive vice-president of Physician Health and Wellness at the Canadian Medical Association.