{"id":88490,"date":"2023-10-10T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=88490"},"modified":"2023-10-10T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:59:45","slug":"faculty-staff-reminded-to-explore-brock-mental-health-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/10\/faculty-staff-reminded-to-explore-brock-mental-health-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty, staff reminded to explore Brock mental health resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of\u00a0World Mental Health Day, Brock\u2019s Health, Safety and Wellness (HSW) team is raising awareness about the supports available to faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Brock\u2019s Schmon Tower will be also illuminated green on Tuesday, Oct. 10 in honour of World Mental Health Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcknowledging World Mental Health Day and bringing to light resources and training is an opportunity. One for the Brock community to unite behind this important conversation of mental health and how it is part of all of us and thus all of our workplaces,\u201d says Interim Director, Health, Safety and Wellness Martina Ciglenecki. \u201cThe resources and training available here serve to improve our knowledge and language around the matter, align in our shared commitment and most importantly drive important actions to promote and cultivate\u00a0 healthy workplaces for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of wellness resources and supports are available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.sharepoint.com\/Health-Safety-and-Wellness-Toolbox\/SitePages\/Brock-benefit-and-community-resources.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Employee and Family Assistance Program<\/a> (EFAP) for eligible employees and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Those not eligible for the EFAP can access <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.sharepoint.com\/Health-Safety-and-Wellness-Toolbox\/SitePages\/Community-resources-for-all-employees.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community resources for all employees<\/a> available on the HSW SharePoint site.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, Brock\u2019s HSW team is hosting two sessions of The Working Mind, a program designed to promote mental health and reduce the stigma of mental illness in a workplace setting. The <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/243199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">employee session<\/a> takes place Tuesday, Dec. 12 and the two-day <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/243189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manager session<\/a> takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 14 and Wednesday, Nov. 15. Registration through <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/organization\/healthsafetyandwellness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ExperienceBU<\/a> is required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage everyone to take The Working Mind training so that we can have a shared language and understanding as individual workers and people leaders,\u201d says Ciglenecki.<\/p>\n<p>Additional employee wellness resources are available on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.sharepoint.com\/Health-Safety-and-Wellness-Toolbox\/SitePages\/EFAP.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HSW Toolbox on SharePoint<\/a>,\u00a0including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.sharepoint.com\/Health-Safety-and-Wellness-Toolbox\/SitePages\/Wellness-calendars-and-event-recordings.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recordings of past wellness workshops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about employee wellness resources can be emailed to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:employeehealth@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">employeehealth@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ui-provider ed bfp bbp bww bwx bwy bwz bxa bxb bxc bxd bxe bxf bxg bxh bxi bxj bxk bxl bxm bxn bxo bxp bxq bxr bxs bxt bxu bxv bxw bxx bxy bxz bya byb\" dir=\"ltr\">Brock also offers a variety of <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/health-wellness-accessibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wellness and mental health supports for students<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of\u00a0World Mental Health Day, Brock\u2019s Health, Safety and Wellness (HSW) team is raising awareness about the supports available to faculty and staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":88496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7],"tags":[11050,8257,1985,926,12574,12575,12985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88490"}],"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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88502,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88490\/revisions\/88502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}