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.

Healthy Professional Worker Toolkit

This toolkit includes represents a collection of curated resources to help professionals deal with mental health issues such as workload management, conflict, bullying & harassment, discrimination and addressing stigma and disclosure. It includes resources for 6 different professions including Academia, Dentistry, Education, Medicine, Midwifery, and Nursing.

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Health Worker Burnout Toolkit

The Health Worker Burnout Toolkit is a free platform of evidence-informed strategies to improve the mental health of health care workers. The interventions in this toolkit are categorized according to four levels: system, organization, team and individual. 

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Mental Health in the Workplace: A SGBA+ Informed Toolkit

This toolkit contains resource sheets on specific topics on mental health and psychological well-being at work with explicit considerations for men, women and people with diverse gender identities.

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Trauma - Informed Care Implementation Resource Centre

The website is part of Center for Health Care Strategies, which is based in the United States, and provides various resources for trauma-informed care. The resources range from learning about trauma-informed care, how to implement it in the workplace with relevance to leaders, staff, and patients, and policy considerations.

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Joy in Work Toolkit

This toolkit outlines essential components for fostering joy in the workplace and supporting the public health workforce. It also includes an action guide for leaders to promote staff well-being and cultivate joy at work

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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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Advancing Collaborative Teams (ACT) Toolkit

This toolkit helps teams reflect on their performance and prioritize opportunities and strategies for further development as part of a team action plan. It includes reliable and valid assessment tools to evaluate interprofessional care competencies and psychological safety.

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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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Thrive Series: Team Toolkit: Psychological Healthy Workplaces

This toolkit includes job aids and videos to assist teams in addressing mental health in the workplace. The title of each job aid includes the name and number of the psychosocial factor it addresses.

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Caring for Healthcare - A Toolkit for Psychological Health and Safety in Healthcare Workplaces

This toolkit was created specifically for the healthcare sector to provide ideas and resources for implementing the Standard in what can often be a challenging and complex environment.

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Examining Two Psychosocial Factors in Long - Term Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Policy Brief

This report presents considerations for policy changes that can better support the psychological well-being of health-care professionals in Canada’s long-term care sector. Support for psychological self-care and protection from moral distress are discussed.

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Moral Injury Toolkit

This toolkit provides leaders with an understanding of moral injury in an organizational context, and includes tools, templates, and tips for understanding what preventative and early intervention structures are already in place, and what more might need to be done.

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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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Nursing Retention Toolkit

In response to the acute nursing shortages across the country and internationally, this toolkit has been developed to support nursing retention. As a resource created ‘by nurses, for nurses’, the toolkit draws on the expertise of the nursing community, evidence-based practice, and current lived experiences of front-line nurses

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CUSP Program: Psychological Safety

The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the concepct of psychologbical safety, Identify barriers and facilitators that impact psychological safety and describe steps to create and implement a psychologically safe environment

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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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Long-Term Care Best Practices Toolkit

The LTC Toolkit is designed to offer point-of-care staff, nurses, educators and leaders access to the best available evidence-based resources and tools. It supports the use of best practice guidelines (BPG), program development, implementation and evaluation to enhance the quality of resident care and create a healthy work environment

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Workplace Mental health in LTC: Training and Support Program for Implementation Teams

This Workplace Mental Health in LTC program provides free training and coaching support to help long-term care (LTC) homes across Ontario adopt the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. The Standard was published in 2013 and defines a systematic approach to creating and sustaining a psychologically safe and healthy work environment.

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Reimagining LTC Webinar: Mental Health and Psychological Safety in the Workplace

The Reimagining LTC webinar focuses on mental health and psychological safety in the workplace. The Mental Health Commission of Canada shared ways to implement psychological safety approaches and support the well-being of the long-term care workforce.

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