October 10th is World Mental Health Day and the official theme of 2024 is, ‘It’s Time to Prioritize Mental Health in the Workplace’.
The workplace plays a significant role in shaping individuals’ mental health, and prioritizing mental health in the workplace leads to improved employee well-being, productivity, and overall organizational success. The World Health Organization states that the global economy suffers an annual loss of approximately one trillion dollars in productivity due to depression and anxiety alone. It’s essential to create supportive work environments, reduce stigma, address workplace stressors, and encourage work and life balance.
One program that can help employees and leadership alike in this effort is Mental Health First Aid (MHFA). MHFA is a skills-based training that teaches participants how to recognize signs and provide support to someone experiencing a mental health or substance use challenge or crisis until professional help can be reached or the challenge resolves.
In this one-hour How to Help session participants will learn:
- MHFA fundamentals for offering support in the workplace
- different types of stigma that impact health and well-being
- the role that an individual’s culture can play in seeking treatment
- how to support a colleague experiencing workplace anxiety
- information on Yale’s well-being resources
This 60 minute webinar is presented by certified MHFA instructor, Danielle Casioppo, MS, Education Specialist and Coordinator with Being Well at Yale. Time for Q&A and information about the full 8-hour MHFA certification course will also be provided.
Participants will receive a detailed list of Yale, local, and national mental health and substance use resources.
This webinar is open to Yale faculty, staff, and postdoctoral associates. A yale.edu email address is required. Please register in advance.
This webinar will be recorded and made available to all registrants.
The data consistently demonstrate that prioritizing workplace mental health is good for people, companies, and communities. The goal is clear: to champion mental health in the workplace and build best practices that create cultures where workers have the potential to contribute productively and thrive.” - Tsuyoshi Akiyama, WFMH President
For more information, please contact beingwell@yale.edu.