One year after we first covered the issue of workplace mental health on CharityVillage Connects, we are back with a wellness check up on the sector. How are nonprofits faring today, what’s changed since last year, and, perhaps most importantly, what practical steps can sector leaders implement right now to better support the mental health and wellbeing of their staff and volunteers? Tune in to this special episode to find out.
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Meet Our Guests
- Paula Allen, Global Leader, Research and Total Wellbeing and a Senior Vice-President, TELUS Health (formerly LifeWorks)
- Caroline Kealey, Founder, Results Map®
- Steve Lurie, Executive Director (Retired), Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Toronto Branch
- Rensia Melles, Founder, Integral Workplace Health
- Dr. Luke Schneider, Clinical Research Associate, PSPNET
Meet Our Guests (in order of appearance)
Paula Allen
Senior Vice-President at TELUS Health (formerly LifeWorks)
Paula Allen is the Global Leader, Research and Total Wellbeing and a Senior Vice-President at TELUS Health (formerly LifeWorks). In this role she manages the research agenda for LifeWorks, which includes primary research, exploratory data science, research collaborations and meta-analyses. Given her focus on industry leading research, Paula also leads LifeWorks’s thought leadership and is co-chair of the organization’s product and innovation strategy.
Caroline Kealey
Founder, of Results Map®
Caroline Kealey is an internationally recognized expert in change leadership and communications. She is the developer of the Results Map, the most applied strategic communications methodology in the world. Her practice in change leadership and communications includes supporting the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations, the House of Commons and several universities and research institutes. Caroline is the founder and principal of Results Map, and the director of the University of Ottawa’s Strategic Communications and Change Cohort Program.
Steve Lurie
Former Executive Director of the Canadian Mental Health Association
Steve Lurie recently retired as the Executive Director of the Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch, a post he held since 1979. Steve has written and lectured extensively on mental health policy issues. He was the principal author of the Graham Report, Building Community Support for People. He recently co-chaired the HQO Quality Standard on Schizophrenia Care in the Community and currently is the co-chair of the Toronto Police Service Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Panel.
Rensia Melles
Founder of Integral Workplace Health
Rensia Melles is a certified Psychological Health and Safety advisor with over 20 years of experience managing and designing international employee support programs for Fortune 500 employers. She is a passionate advocate for creating a difference in the workplace for both employers and employees on the topic of mental health and psychological safety. She has published and presented internationally on a wide range of employee support topics, including leveraging the workplace for health, global trauma support, mental health and employer liability.
Luke Schneider PhD
Clinical Research Associate at PSPNET
Dr. Luke Schneider is a Registered Psychologist with the Nova Scotia Board of Examiners in Psychology and the College of Psychologists of Ontario. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Regina (2013 and 2019, respectively) with a focus on implementing and evaluating Internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy programs in Canada.
About your Host
Mary Barroll
President of CharityVillage
Mary Barroll, president of CharityVillage, is an online business executive and lawyer with a background in media, technology and IP law. A former CBC journalist and independent TV producer, in 2013 she was appointed General Counsel & VP Media Affairs at CharityVillage.com, Canada’s largest job portal for charities and not for profits in Canada, and then President in 2021. Mary is also President of sister company, TalentEgg.ca, Canada’s No.1, award-winning job board and online career resource that connects top employers with top students and grads.
CharityVillage Resources from this Episode
- CharityVillage Connects: Workplace Mental Health in the Age of COVID (January 2022)
- Mental Health and Psychological Safety at Work Master Certificate Program (online course)
- Effectively Onboarding New Staff and Volunteers (online course)
Additional Resources from this Episode
We’ve gathered the resources from this episode into one helpful list:
- TELUS Health’s (formerly LifeWorks) Mental Health Index
- Canadians with disabilities more likely to report their organization does not value diversity and inclusion [TELUS Health’s (formerly Lifeworks) Mental Health Index] (December 2022)
- WTF is going on? (Caroline Kealey)
- Tolerance for Uncertainty: A COVID-19 Workbook
- Managers Have Major Impact On Mental Health: How To Lead For Wellbeing (Forbes)
- Combatting the Great Resignation with Workplace Well-being (YMCA WorkWell)
- Not Myself Today (Canadian Mental Health Association)
- Mental Health Works (CMHA Ontario)
- National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (Mental Health Commission of Canada)
- Guarding Minds at Work (CanadaLife)
- PSPNET (for frontline public safety personnel)
- Wellness Together Canada (Mental health tips and free telephone-based counseling, funded by the Government of Canada)
- Online Therapy Unit (Internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy program providing free services to all Saskatchewan residents)
- Uncomfortable (but Necessary) Conversations About Burnout (Gallup)
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