Care for Caregivers: Supporting the Mental Health of Healthcare Providers
This web page aims to promote mental health among healthcare providers through a variety of free resources including peer support, webinars, podcasts, useful tips and leader training.
Trauma and Violence - Informed Care (TVIC) Tool
This document helps to give you clear, practical steps you can take to build TVIC into your practice and organization.
Trauma Review Exercise
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.
Trauma and Violence Informed Care & Provider Well Being
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.
Canada’s Health Workforce: Pathways Forward - Chapter 5 Support & Retention
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
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.
Caring for Healthcare Workers - Assessment Tools
This free online resource will help identify key areas of strength and concern that influence the psychological health and safety in your healthcare organization.
Transforming Healthcare Organizations
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.
Wobble Room
A physical space for health workers to unwind and connect. It is open to all employees 24/7 to help release tension and recharge.
Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation
By focusing on six key domain areas of content — mental health, physical activity, nutrition, rest, quality of life, and safety — the Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation program aims to holistically enhance and support all aspects of nurse well-being and wellness.
Moral Stress Amongst Healthcare Workers During COVID-19: A Guide to Moral Injury
A practical resource for healthcare workers and organizations to better understand the range of moral emotions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and to develop organizational and individual strategies to mitigate risks of lasting harm.
Time to Speak Up: A Graphical Depiction of Psychological Safety in Health Care Teams
An article that presents scenarios related to psychological safety in health-care teams, while illustrating barriers and modelling a culture where individuals feel at ease to share their thoughts and concerns.
Well-being Debriefings for Health Care Workers
A facilitator training manual that guides the delivery of informal, peer-facilitated, small-group meetings and gives health-care workers the chance to discuss the difficult nature of their work and the issues that negatively affect their resiliency.
W4H 2030 Seminar 1: Our Duty of Care: Protecting Mental Health and Preventing Burnout in Health and Care Workers
This seminar examines the prevalence of mental health issues and burnout among health and care workers, focusing on organisational and systemic drivers. We will explore how employers and health systems can address these issues and prioritise staff well-being, leading to improved retention and productivity.