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.

Redefining the Culture of Care

This document summarizes the key ideas and themes endorsed by healthcare providers. It contains culture-change recommendations by and from those who are part of the culture.

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Supporting our Staff

This toolkit draws on the Vanderbilt Model of Professional Behaviour (Hickson et al., 2007) and Professor Michael West’s (2017) research on compassionate leadership and the function of teams to guide organisations to a new way of thinking, focus for action and the crucial link back to improved patient care.

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Workplace Mental Health Playbook for Business Leaders

This resource provides a path to more effective solutions and better outcomes for employees and for businesses. CAMH’s five powerful recommendations are based on the best available evidence, and were shaped by feedback from business leaders as well as CAMH researchers, clinicians and experts.

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Developing Workplace Violence and Harassment Policies and Programs

This document contains information, tools and assessments that can be useful to employers as they identify hazards and risks related to violence and harassment, develop a workplace violence policy and program, develop a workplace harassment policy and program, or a domestic violence program.

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WeCARE eLearning Course: How to Support Someone Who is Struggling With Their Mental Health

The course takes less than 40 minutes to complete, and includes a comprehensive resource toolkit with a guidebook, posters, fact sheets and checklists. You will receive a certificate after completing this course.

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Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff

In its program “Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff,” Hawai’i Pacific Health (HPH), a not-for-profit health care system invites clinical staff who use its electronic health record system to identify documentation and other practice requirements that should be eliminated, changed or modified.

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