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632 Main St., PO Box 249
Tofino

Mental Health Resources for staff and employers

 

Resources from Go2HR

  • This portal is specifically designed for the hospitality and tourism industries. It offers a variety of resources, including urgent help and support, toolkits that can be used to address psychological health and safety, and webinars on empathic leadership, communication, stress management, and burnout reduction.

  • This is an online, self-paced, free training program designed to increase awareness, communication, and leadership around mental health in the workplace. It offers all levels of staff a framework for addressing psychological safety within the work environment.

    This program provides 3 levels of education:

    Level 1 Foundational Skills— designed for everyone in the workplace to learn more about mental health, teaches how to recognize and approach mental health challenges.

    Level 2 Enhanced Skills— for leaders, supervisors, and managers, teaches communication skills and ways in which to support your team when facing mental health challenges.

    Level 3 Advanced Skills— for Senior Leaders, HR, Occupational Health and Safety Officers, teaches businesses how to systematically apply the national standard for psychological health and safety.

  • Workplace mental health coaching is one-on-one coaching for employers and supervisors on workplace mental health and wellness. This program offers a direct connection with appropriate mental health resources to address mental health concerns such as workplace stress and burnout. With this program, Go2HR also helps facilitate mental health-related training such as the Workplace CARE Certificate program.

 

Resources from CMHA— Canadian Mental Health Association

  • Care for Caregivers is an online mental health resource platform for healthcare workers and leaders that provides access to evidence-based education tools and resources, including:

    · Free workshops and webinars— on subjects such as emotional intelligence, psychological health and safety, self-compassion, compassion fatigue

    · Mental Health and personal support information

    · Workplace resources

    · Care2Listen podcast series

    · Care to Speak: A peer-based phone, text, and webchat service providing free and confidential support to health and social support workers in BC

  • This is an eight-week virtual- and community-based series of courses that provides simple, practical skills for coping with stress, problem-solving, boosting your mood, and busting bad thoughts. Available in English, French, and Chinese. These courses are effective in improving resilience, well-being, mood, anxiety, and social support in Adults and Youth.

  • This is a free mental health telephone coaching program based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for people aged 13+ experiencing mild to moderate anxiety or depression. Youth learn skills to manage low mood, worry, and stress, and improve overall mental health. The program includes 4-6 sessions with a trained coach and is offered in English, French, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Punjabi.

    No referral is needed to access the self-paced program.

  • This is a phone-based skill-building program for parents and caregivers of children ages 3-12 who experience mild to moderate anxiety or behaviour challenges. The behaviour program is a series of six or 14 weekly phone sessions. The Anxiety program is delivered through a series of online videos supported by four to eight weekly phone sessions.

    A referral from a health care provider including a family doctor or pediatrician, Child and Youth Mental Health clinician, psychologist, teacher, school counselor, or early childhood educator is required. 

 

Local West Coast Resources

  • This local organization offers mental health outreach and counseling services to all members of the West Coast communities.

  • This is a local business that offers workplace bullying and harassment training for employers, managers, and supervisors, as well as many other training options.