This document reflects on one promising practice- peopleCare’s Recovering Strong strategy- that could be used in long-term care to foster healthy work environments to deliver safer, higher quality person-centred care.

A free program to support health care providers and allied health professionals working in hospitals, long-term care, and home and community settings. Through interactive live workshops, and / or self-directed modules, you will learn effective strategies to address chronic workplace stress and promote psychological health and safety in the workplace.

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.

This document helps to give you clear, practical steps you can take to build TVIC into your practice and organization.

These resources will not only equip people to care for themselves, but will also train individuals in the basics of trauma-informed care to more effectively support those who have experienced the effects of trauma. This toolkit is set out in differing levels for differing individual needs and capabilities at this time.

Creating safe and welcoming spaces reduces potential harm for everyone, especially those most likely to feel unwelcome and unsafe. This exercise will help you ‘walk through’ the spaces where you provide care. The goal is to think about how these spaces feel for service users.

This document provides key concepts related to understanding and assessing provider well-being, with a focus on organizational strategies, including how leaders can support staff in self-care strategies.

Building a psychologically healthy and safe workplace requires leaders to support workplace mental health and commit to creating a trauma-informed environment. This articlea provides a few steps that can be taken to get started.

Creating a trauma-informed workplace requires leaders to accept that violence and trauma can and will show up, whether it occurs in or outside the workplace or develops from an earlier event, such as adverse childhood experiences.

The National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (the Standard) – the first of its kind in the world, is a set of voluntary guidelines, tools and resources intended to guide organizations in promoting mental health and preventing psychological harm at work.

Trauma and violence-informed approaches require fundamental changes in how practitioners engage with people, how organizations function and how systems are designed. This website outlines four key principles and sample implementation strategies for service providers and organizations.

In each episode, we'll explore both the family and staff perspectives, shedding light on the emotions, expectations, and sometimes the disappointments that arise from the friction in these relationships. Through heartfelt conversations, personal anecdotes, and expert insights, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of the diverse perspectives that shape senior care environments. Tune in to gain valuable insights, and cultivate a better approach

Chapter 5 addresses questions regarding how to support and retain the health workforce, including the influence that the working environment has on the mental health of its workers

A structured, brief (15-30 min) routine/team building actvity (daily or multiple times a day), face-to-face communication of a team’s membership that can build team resilience through celebrating wins and providing support for challenges.

This free online resource will help identify key areas of strength and concern that influence the psychological health and safety in your healthcare organization.

The LEADS Framework can be used as a disciplined approach to change to create psychologically healthy workplaces. This document outlines how this disciplined approach to change can be utilized. Each step outlines the key questions that the leader-manager needs to ask and answer.

This toolkit aims to provide knowledge to service providers working with adults who have experienced or been affected by trauma. It will also help service providers and organizations to work from a trauma-informed perspective and develop trauma-informed relationships that cultivate safety, trust and compassion.

This concise document shares information about trauma, it's impact, the principles of trauma informed practice along with trauma exposure response and the ABC model of clinician self-care.

The Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) Guide and TIP Organizational Checklist are intended to support the translation of trauma-informed principles into practice. Included are concrete strategies to guide the professional work of practitioners assisting clients with mental health and substance use (MHSU) concerns in British Columbia.

A physical space for health workers to unwind and connect. It is open to all employees 24/7 to help release tension and recharge.