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.
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.
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.
Expressive arts
A creative intervention that aims to address and reduce the psychosocial stress experienced by health workers.
Careforcaregivers
A collection of mental health resources for health workers employed in long-term care, home and community care, or community social services.
Animal-assisted support program for healthcare employees
To conduct program visits for health workers, a partnership was created with a community-based, volunteer-run animal therapy organization. 20 program sessions were held over 3 months and each session was approximately 1 hour long and held in a centrally located conference room.
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.
Clinician Well-Being Knowledge Hub
A repository that provides clinicians of all kinds various resources (toolkits, blog posts, reports, research articles, briefs) related to burnout and well-being.
Moral Distress in a Crisis: What, Why and How to Cope
In this episode, nursing ethics leader Cynda Rushton talks about moral distress: what it is, why it occurs, and how it affects us physically and psychologically. She also explores shifts in thinking that can help alleviate distress, and offers her insights for building moral resilience during difficult times.
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.
Setting Boundaries as a Health Care Worker
A short guide about the importance of setting boundaries in health professions.
Dealing with conflict
This section of Good Practices is an educational resource that offers guidance to physicians dealing with conflict in teams.
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.
Emotional CPR (eCPR)
This internationally recognized public health educational program teaches people to assist others through an emotional crisis. It is based on principles of an inclusive, collaborative community and incorporates a number of support approaches.
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.