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.

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.

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.

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.

This website provides comprehensive guidance on how long-term care providers can establish effective and compassionate communication with residents’ families. It highlights important information concerning the health and safety of long-term care workers and discusses the legal repercussions of inadequate communication.

This communication tip sheet highlights common scenarios in which certain words may unintentionally intensify a conflict. It offers recommendations on how to deal with the situation, advising providers to maintain composure and develop collaborative relationships with their residents.

These two complementary eLearning courses for families and care team members highlight effective communication skills needed to support family members in a respectful and compassionate manner.

The document offers comprehensive details on the role of regional family councils as well as strategies for fostering better communication and collaboration between family members, care home employees, and management.

The article describes three steps for improving family satisfaction in long-term care. These steps include responsive communication (especially after grievance), providing easy access to information, and reducing staff burdens to enable them to focus on direct care.

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.

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

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.

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.

This guide identifies promising practices that may promote personal resilience, team cohesion, and organizational learning which may be used by both policy makers and managers.

The purpose of this toolkit is to raise awareness about the nature and impact of workplace incivility on staff well-being and care delivery and rrovide practice-based scenarios, strategies and resources for addressing workplace (in)civility and supportive workplace relationships.

The Workplace Violence Risk Assessment Toolkit contains a detailed hazard assessment designed to help long-term-care workplaces identify hazards, establish their risk rating, identify controls and implement an action plan.

TWM program aims to help individuals maintain their well-being while also supporting others living with a mental health problem or illness in a psychologically healthy and safe work setting. This program will aid employers who are interested in adopting the Psychological Health and Safety Standard in the workplace.

The aim of WeRPNs Organizational Resilience: A Guide for Long-Term Care Homes (LTCHs) to Support Recruitment and Retention of Registered Practical Nurses is to equip formal leaders (e.g., administrators, nurse, managers, supervisors) with an easy-to-use reference guide that can encourage actionable change.

This Long Term Care Plus (LTC+) Mental Health and Resiliency Resources for Healthcare Providers, Staff and Leaders page, created by Healthcare Excellence Canada, provides resources that rely on varied approaches to assist in providing support, guidance and tools for individuals, teams, leaders, and educators. These resources are designed for care providers, and some of these target LTC specifically.

Every day in Long-Term Care, staff members work with clients and families who deal with chronic illness, dying and death.Recognizing that grief is naturally present in workplace, this workbook guides LTC staff how to honour the experience of simultaneous joy and suffering.