Workplace Mental Health Symposium 2025
WEEK ONE
Integrating Initiative: WMH into OHS
Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Fundamental truth: Workplace Mental Health is Occupational Health
Speaker: John Oudyk, Occupational Hygienist, OHCOW - Public Sector Perspective: Experience, Resources & Psychosocial <-> MSD prevention case study
Madi Stratis, Workplace Wellness Consultant, PSHSA - New tool to help: CCOHS Business Safety Portal & other WMH & OHS resources
Karen Cassidy, Director, Business Solutions CCOHS
WEEK TWO
Lessons Learned - Workplace Experiences & Stories
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Getting workers/members engaged in efforts to improve workplace stress conditions
Speaker: Carrie de Graaf, President, OSSTF D8 Edu.l Support Staff - Real Talk: A Short Workplace Stress Survey launched our Psychological Health Journey
Speaker: Hayley Bennett, Wellness Coordinator, Bruyère Health - Voice of experience: 15 years, 15(+) insights on workplace survey support
John Oudyk, Occupational Hygienist, OHCOW
WEEK THREE
Assessment assessment: Exploring Survey Options
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- The psychosocial work environment: what is it, why is it important, how to measure?
Speaker: Dr. Peter Smith, President, IWH - Beyond Conversations: Measuring improvements in workplace mental health
Speaker: Liz Horvath, Senior Advisor, PsycHS, Opening Minds, MHCC - Ontario Workplace Wellbeing Survey insights and experience
Speaker: Katrina Burch, Psychological H&S Advisor/Assessor, PSHSA
WEEK FOUR
Research Results: Finding & Building on Knowledge
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Mindful Workplace Mental Health: Accommodation & Return to Work
Speaker: Dr. Behdin Nowrouzi-Kia, Occ Sci & OT, Univ. of Toronto - Job quality and its relationship to ‘deaths of despair’
Speaker: Dr. Faraz Shahidi, Associate Scientist, IWH - Work-related suicide. An international social justice analysis
Speakers: Steven Bittle, Professor, Criminology, Univ. of Ottawa; Sarah Waters, Professor French Studies, Univ of Leeds
WEEK FIVE
Canadian Conversation: Mental Injury Prevention across the Country
Thursday, May 29, 2025
- Newfoundland Experience Building a Peer Support Program
Speakers: Tammy McCabe, Manager, Communications and Industry Relations, NLCSA
Dr. Kim Cullen, MUN - What’s happening in Alberta with workplace psychological safety?
Speaker: Karina Thomas, MSc, PhD
Occupational Disease Scientific Lead, Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration - Mental Health Injuries in BC’s Social Services Sector: A growing concern
Speakers: Suncha Satney, Psychological H&S Consultant, CSSHSA;
Tigran Bajgoric, CEO, CSSHSA
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