Welcome to the Long-Term Care Toolkit
This toolkit is part of a research project that focuses on building psychological safety in long term care and strengthening equity and trauma informed organizational capacity. Our team has developed a multi-level, intersectional inventory of high-quality resources.
Whether you’re a registered nurse, nurse practitioner, registered practical nurse, personal support worker, trainee, healthcare leader/manager/supervisor, director, administrator or HR specialist in long term care, there is something here for you.
Upon entering the site, you can choose resources based on the focus of the intervention, sector, format, or location. We want to create a community of support for long term care so if you try a resource and like it, feel free to click on the logo and leave a comment.
Navigating Professional Grief in Healthcare: Supporting Those Who Care for Others
This resource explores cumulative and disenfranchised grief experienced by healthcare providers following patient deaths. It provides actionable strategies for individual workers, teams, and healthcare leaders including reflective practices, informal check-ins, peer debriefing, and organizational policies to build grief literacy and prevent staff burnout.
Strengthening Palliative Care in Long-Term Care: Bereavement Support in Long-Term Care Settings
This resource provides guidance on bereavement support in long-term care settings following resident deaths. It addresses grief reactions experienced by families, staff, and co-residents, offering practical strategies for emotional support, memory rituals, end-of-life care transitions, and institutional support systems to foster a compassionate workplace culture.
Honouring Grief and Increasing Resiliency
This webinar presentation explores the dual experience of joy and suffering among long-term care staff facing chronic illness, dying, and resident loss. It delivers self-compassion tools, mindfulness practices, and trauma-informed strategies to honor workplace grief, nurture self-kindness, and build team resilience.
Dementia and Staff Grief: A Resource for Healthcare Providers
This resource explores the unique, cumulative losses experienced by staff caring for individuals living with dementia. It outlines how unattended grief impacts person-centred care and provides practical strategies such as peer-led debriefings, a palliative approach to care, and self-care practices to help workers and employers manage workplace bereavement.
Grief Support for Staff
Based on interviews with long-term care workers, this toolkit offers practical organizational strategies to support staff experiencing grief after resident deaths. It provides actionable ideas such as memory trees, structured debriefings, peer support, and formal protocols to acknowledge loss and prevent staff burnout.
PSW Career Support: Coping With The Death of a Client
This career support resource provides practical advice for personal support workers coping with client loss. It validates complex emotional reactions, offers guidance on supporting grieving families, and emphasizes healthy personal coping strategies and workplace communication to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue.
Supporting Staff with Grief: A Guide For Leaders
This guide helps healthcare leaders recognize and normalize workplace grief experienced by staff following client or patient deaths. It provides practical strategies such as structured debriefs, team reflective spaces, and peer support frameworks to reduce burnout, compassion fatigue, and emotional distress among healthcare workers.
Personal Support Network of Ontario Facebook Page
This Facebook page is dedicated to raising awareness of the value and significance of personal support workers in Ontario. It also provides updates on training and other useful information to support the personal support workers.
Confronting Anti – Black Racism: Advancing Equity and Supporting Black RPNs
The presentation highlights anti-black racism as a core determinant of health, and its impact in contributing to inequities. Different scenarios on how to confront anti-black racism were presented.
The Living Classroom
The Living Classroom is a partnership model that integrates education into long-term care to support workforce development in senior living. This platform provides dedicated resources and training through hands-on learning for practical nursing and personal support workers.
We Are Educators
This website offers a series of modules, workshops, and eLearning programs designed to support RPNs in adapting to the evolving nursing environment. Resources cover topics such as peer support, mentorship, self-care, cultural competence, new graduate transition, and workplace violence prevention.
Workplace Psychological Health and Safety Guide
This document is intended to take an organizational approach to psychological health and safety program planning to support a psychologically safe workplace culture and Safe Workplaces in the broader public sectors to employers.
Mental Health Resources for Nurses
Various resources on this website are useful for nurses struggling with mental health and/or substance use disorders, including online mental health resources, self-care fact sheets, and nurse-specific programs designed to promote psychological health and safety.
Changing Life, Changing Tomorrow: Implementing Antiracism Policy in Nursing
The keynote offers practical strategies and actionable steps for healthcare professionals to promote an inclusive and equitable workplace. The speaker discusses the significance of anti-racism policies, provides practical examples, and offers guidance on overcoming challenges in different nursing contexts.
Building a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Long-Term Care Home: Helping Each Other Thrive
The poster outlines step by step strategies that long-term care organizations can implement to advance inclusive practices, cultural competence, and empowered workforce at all levels.
Working with Patients and Substitute Decisions-Makers (SDMs)
This detailed educational guide is intended for healthcare professionals working with patients and substitute decision makers. It contains evidence-based resources to assist nurses and other allied health workers in finding guidance on care interventions, conflict resolution, and relevant procedural issues.
Death is Part of the Job: A Model of Staff Grief in Long-Term Care
This video demonstrates a peer-led debriefing intervention (INNPUT) for LTC home staff. Important knowledge about grief and how to build a culture where it is okay to talk about grief are included in the model. It offers a sustainable and user-friendly strategy to support front-line employees.
Peer Led Debriefing Toolkit: Guidelines for Promoting Effective Grief Support Among Front Line Staff
The peer-led debriefing toolkit is intended as a practice and training resource that can be incorporated into the palliative care program of a long-term care home. It covers strategies for overcoming the effects of disenfranchised grief and illustrates how LTC staff can manage their emotions and stressors related to the resident’s death.
Supporting Families in Long Term Care: Exploring Family and Staff Perspectives
This webinar highlights the critical role of social workers and social service workers in supporting families and enhancing resident care in long-term care homes. It highlights systemic barriers and opportunities for advancement in promoting the health and wellbeing of those who live and work in long-term care.
I Am A Caregiver Designed for Caregivers in Long-Term Care Homes
This toolkit is a dedicated resource created for caregivers with input from mental health professionals and resources. It includes three essential steps that caregivers can adopt to care for their health and wellbeing.
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