If you or a friend need urgent assistance, call 911 immediately, or take your friend directly to the emergency room. If you feel it’s safe, stay with your friend, or find someone to stay with them until help arrives.
WELLBEING AT W~RK
Wellbeing at Work is an initiative spearheaded by The Mental Health Coalition to cultivate healthier, more productive workplaces nationwide, equipping individuals with the tools to thrive both within and beyond the workplace.
Wellbeing at Work involves corporations committing to advancing, supporting, and sharing mental health best practices in the workplace.
Globally, an estimated 12 billion working days are lost every year to depression and anxiety.
The global economy loses $1 trillion per year in lost productivity as a result of mental health conditions.
For every $1 invested in treatment for mental health conditions of employees, there is a return of $4 in improved health and productivity.
– World Health Organization
– World Health Organization
– World Health Organization
IT’S TIME TO BRING WELLBEING TO THE WORKPLACE.
Join us! Pledge to be a part of Wellbeing at Work today.
By taking the Wellbeing at Work Pledge, you recognize that mental health is health, and a healthy workforce is essential to high-performing organizations.
A Framework for Workplace Mental Health
When building a workplace mental health program, there is never a one-size-fits-all approach. Just as individuals are unique, so are organizations. We recommend you consider the below steps when looking to build a workplace mental health program.
1. Establish a cross-functional Mental Health at Work team to lead your organization’s efforts. By engaging diverse members of your workforce in leading this effort, you benefit from different experiences and perspectives and promote buy-in and sustainability.
2. Measure the maturity of your organization’s mental health at work efforts. Assessing your current programs, policies, and practices gives you the data you need to know your organization’s strengths and weaknesses. Establishing a data-driven approach sets you up to have measurable impact.
3. Set clear strategic priorities across the continuum of mental health. How are you protecting your workers’ mental health? How are you promoting wellbeing? How are you providing services when needed?
4. Use trusted resources that have been built on good science. Access resources below that are provided by our partners to help you move forward with high-quality guidance and materials.
5. Monitor outcomes, and set next steps for improvement. Enhancing workforce mental health requires a practice of continual quality improvement. Make it part of your ongoing organizational practice.
RES~URCES
The Mental Health Coalition and our partners provide access to free resources to support employee mental health.
Employees are more than just workplace associates — they are parents, caregivers, individuals living with serious mental illness, and people from diverse backgrounds.
We’ve highlighted some resources below to support a variety of specific groups.
Resources for Parents & Caregivers
- Mental Health America’s Mental Health Resources for Caregivers
- Mind Share’s Resources to Support the Mental Health of Parents and Caregivers in Your Workforce
- Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance’s Resources for Caring for Someone with Schizophrenia
- NAMI’s Resources for Family Members and Caregivers
- Kids Mental Health Foundation’s Bloom: Child Mental Health and the Workplace
- Child Mind Institute’s Family Resource Center
- The Jed Foundation’s Set to Go Program for Families of Teens
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources
Mental Health Trainings
- National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Mental Health First Aid at Work
- National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Mental Health First Aid at Work for Retail Workers
- APAF’s Notice.Talk.Act.® at Work
- NAMI-NYC’s Workplace Mental Health Trainings
- Kids Mental Health Foundation’s Bloom: Child Mental Health and the Workplace
- The Steve Fund’s Workplace Workshops for Young People of Color
- Shatterproof’s Just Five Program for Addiction Prevention
- AFSP’s Interactive Screening Program (ISP)
- Silence the Shame’s Corporate Wellness Services
- Mind Share’s Workplace Mental Health Training, Strategy, and Culture Change
How to Talk About Mental Health
Measure Your Organization’s Mental Health Proficiency
Support Employees with Mental Health Resources
- APAF’s Guide to Beating Burnout
- APAF’s Self-Care Toolkit
- NAMI’s Guide to Supporting Mental Health During Traumatic Times – for Employees
- NAMI’s Guide to Supporting Mental Health During Traumatic Times – for Leadership
- MHC’s Guide to Self-Care
- MHC’s Resource Library – More Resources for Yourself & Loved Ones
The Latest Research on Workplace Mental Health
workplace CULTURE
Creating a supportive workplace culture is key to fostering mental health. It’s not just about offering resources — it’s about making mental health a priority and ensuring that employees feel comfortable discussing it.
Learn more below.
MHC’s Roadmap to Addressing Workplace Mental Health
Although it can be difficult to talk about mental health in the workplace, doing so benefits everyone. When employers and managers address mental health, employees are happier, productivity improves, and the workplace becomes a healthier environment.
While not everyone deals with a clinical mental health condition, everyone has mental health and experiences things like stress, burnout, workplace social anxiety, and performance anxiety. This resource offers ways to identify and remove common roadblocks to open conversations about mental health in the workplace and provides a plethora of workplace mental health resources from MHC’s member organizations.
Using these actionable steps can help managers address mental health with their teams to improve the workplace culture around mental health.
Modeling Mental Health Conversations
While there are many ways to address mental health at work, here are some examples that can be adapted to different situations.
sign up t~day
The Wellbeing at Work pledge involves corporations committing to advancing, supporting, and sharing mental health best practices in the workplace. By taking the pledge, companies become part of our network of organizations dedicated to promoting and enhancing workplace mental health.
Each month, organizations will receive resources via email from The Mental Health Coalition focused on workplace mental health.
By signing up, you are joining the Wellbeing at Work network and are committed to creating a supportive workplace for mental health. MHC may use your company name in materials about Wellbeing at Work.
Contact us for more information.
“What makes this initiative so meaningful is that the workplace is the only place where traditional, operational resources – human, administrative, and financial – can be efficiently leveraged to transform the health and wellbeing of large populations and their families.”
– Kenneth Cole, Founder and Chairman of The Mental Health Coalition
D~NATE TO SUPPORT THIS WORK
We are grateful for the generous support of individuals whose commitment allows us to further our mission of protecting the mental health of our nation. Please join us as we work to reframe the narrative and empower the community.
WELLBEING AT WORK DAY
Wellbeing at Work Day aims to change the culture around mental wellness at work. Our inaugural event in New York City gathered 250+ people representing 150+ companies with important voices leading the conversation around workplace mental health.
Our 2nd Annual Wellbeing at Work Day will take place on December 3, 2024.
