{"id":73751,"date":"2021-08-23T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T13:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=73751"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:26:04","slug":"space-still-available-in-free-mental-health-training-for-brock-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/08\/space-still-available-in-free-mental-health-training-for-brock-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Space still available in free mental health training for Brock employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A free training program offered by Brock University\u2019s Health, Safety and Wellness team offers employees practical knowledge to increase their understanding of mental health and mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/hr\/training\/focus\/courses.php?cid=2452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Working Mind mental health employee training<\/a> is an education-based program designed to address and promote mental health and reduce the stigma of mental illness in a workplace setting.<\/p>\n<p>The five-hour program takes place Wednesday, Aug. 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Learning outcomes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understanding mental health and mental illness.<\/li>\n<li>Recognizing signs and indicators of mental illness in oneself and others.<\/li>\n<li>Reducing negative attitudes towards people with mental health problems.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting colleagues with mental health problems.<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining one\u2019s own mental health and improving resilience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following the course, participants will receive a resource kit and certificate of completion from the Mental Health Commission of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Interested employees are asked to <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/hr\/training\/focus\/courses.php?cid=2452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register online<\/a> by Tuesday, Aug. 24 at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Questions can be emailed to Kathryn Walker, Manager, Health Management and Wellness at <a href=\"mailto:kwalker6@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kwalker6@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free training program offered by Brock University\u2019s Health, Safety and Wellness team offers employees practical knowledge to increase their understanding of mental health and mental illness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,4],"tags":[6181,3393,1985,101,926,10653,1586,6050,1381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73753,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73751\/revisions\/73753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}