Workplace Mental Health
In the midst of a crisis, mental health and self-care is paramount. The resources below can help you support your workforce during these uncertain times. Mental well-being has a significant impact throughout the U.S. and Canada and, in turn, throughout our workplaces and on employee benefit plans.
Mental Health in the Workplace Virtual Conference
Organizations continue to face challenges with how to respond to their participants' mental health needs and foster a healthy work environment. This event will provide best practices for when, where and how employers can support the total well-being of their employees and their families.
More InformationThe Loneliness Epidemic: How Did We Get Here and Where Do We Go From Here?
Today, we’re grappling with one of our biggest challenges as human beings: Our lack of connection to each other. As we start to examine the roots of our loneliness epidemic, we see compelling trends spanning many decades where we spent more and more time alone than together. This presentation will outline some of these trends and highlight the impact of loneliness on our health, particularly its role on workforces. The session will then move toward finding paths out of our epidemic, proposing a holistic approach and recommending strategies to promote meaningful social connectedness among people and organizations.
Watch WebcastUniting Forces: Employer-Community Partnership Fostering Employee Mental and Behavioral Health and Well-Being
COVID-19 worsened the mental health crisis in the U.S. and exposed the ongoing critical shortage of behavioral health workers available to support employee well-being. To address this, employers and community partners collaborated to create an award-winning train-the-trainer certification program for human resources professionals.
Watch WebcastWorkplace Wellness and Financial Education Programs: 2022
Workplace Wellness and Financial Education Programs: 2022 Survey Results, reveals details about workplace wellness programs and physical health-related offerings as well as organizational status and approach, communication methods, incentives and the use of data/metric and outcomes.
View ReportMental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits: 2024 Survey Report
As more employees grapple with mental well-being, organizations are challenged with implementing new solutions to support mental health in the workplace. Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits: 2024 Survey Results reveals the prevalence of various mental health challenges among workers and their families. Data indicates that to combat conditions on the rise, employers are focused on improving manager mental health training, rethinking employee assistance programs (EAPs), and enhancing virtual mental health options.
View ReportArticles
- What’s Working: Providing PPE for Mental Health (Benefits Magazine, May/June 2024)
- The Recovery-Ready Workplace: The Next Frontier for Employee Wellness (Benefits Magazine, January/February 2024)
- The Evolving Need for Mental and Behavioral Health Literacy (Benefits Quarterly, First Quarter 2024)
- What's Working: Building Better Behavioral Health Care (Benefits Magazine, September/October 2023)
- How to Leverage Your EAP for a Mentally Healthy Workplace: What Leaders Need to Know and Do (Benefits Magazine, July/August 2023)
- Mental Health Parity Compliance: Hidden Hurdles (Benefits Magazine, March/April 2023)
- Family Mental Health and the Impact on the Workplace (Plans & Trusts, January/February 2023)
Additional Resources
- InfoQuick: Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (U.S.)
- Legislative Tracker (U.S.)
- Regulatory Updates
- Canadian Legislative Scorecard
- Sample Documents
- Pillar of Support: Employee Assistance Programs Create Stronger Workplace Foundations (John McCormack, CMA Today, March/April 2023. Permission to reproduce granted by the American Association of Medical Assistants.)
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