If you are in distress, you can call or text 988 at any time. If it is an emergency, call 9-1-1 or go to your local emergency department.

Patrick Villemaire

Temporary Work at Home Ergonomics Guideline Slide 1

Temporary Work at Home Ergonomics Guideline

The purpose of this guideline is to help support the mental health of workers by reducing the potential for negative effects of poor ergonomics in ...
Read More
Featured SPARKie: Moustaches for Mental Health Banner

Featured SPARKie: Ivy Lim-Carter

Who could have thought that growing a moustache could become so significant? You may have seen university and college campuses filled with male students sporting ...
Read More
Social Stigma and COVID-19: Protecting Your Workers. Interview with Dr. Keith Dobson Thumbnail

Social Stigma and COVID-19: Protecting Your Workers. Interview with Dr. Keith Dobson

Civility and respect is correlated with the workplace factor of psychological protection. They meet similar human needs. When these factors are compromised, it can result ...
Read More
Male retail cashier wearing mask

Supporting the Mental Health of Retail Workers During COVID-19

There is a growing concern for the mental health of retail workers, and it’s up to all of us to support them.
Read More

A Narrative in Seniors Mental Health: Larry’s Story

Coming out has been a lifetime process for Larry. He had always been exceedingly shy, so much so that as a boy in his small ...
Read More

Good Practices for Improving Seniors’ Mental Health in Canada (pre-recorded webinar)

Dr. Keri-Leigh Cassidy, Dalhousie University/Fountain of Health, Denise Waligora, Mental Health First Aid Canada. Alexa Bol, Mental Health Commission of Canada talk about good practices ...
Read More

Checking In on Yourself

A lot of the time when I’m delivering mental health training, people tend to forget or overlook their mental health, because they think it doesn’t ...
Read More
Building Mental Health into Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs: Pandemic Response Slide 1

Building Mental Health into Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs: Pandemic Response

As we navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic and begin to think about how to recover our operations and the economy, it is critical to think ...
Read More
Self Care Blog - Denise Banner Banner

It Begins with You

We can’t continue to provide the best support to others unless we make sure we take care of ourselves first during these unique times
Read More