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Mayday Mayday Workplace Mental Health Webinar Series Week 3
2025-05-15 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Toronto)
WEEK THREE
Thursday, May 15, 2025
10:30am – 12:00pm ET
Assessment assessment: Exploring Survey Options

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

Open discussion follows. VIEW PLAYLISTSLIDES – Peter SmithSLIDES – Liz HorvathSLIDES – Katrina Burch

Mayday Mayday Workplace Mental Health Webinar Week 4
2025-05-22 10:30 - 12:00
WEEK FOUR
Thursday, May 22, 2025
10:30am – 12:00pm ET
Research Results: Finding & Building on Knowledge

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

Open discussion follows. VIEW PLAYLISTSLIDES: Nowrouzi-KiaSLIDES: ShahidiSLIDES: Bittle

Mayday Mayday Workplace Mental Health Webinar Series Week 5
2025-05-29 10:30 - 12:00
WEEK FIVE
Thursday, May 29, 2025
10:30am – 12:00pm ET
Canadian Conversation: Mental Injury Prevention across the Country

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

Open discussion follows. VIEW PLAYLISTPDF SLIDES-THOMASPDF SLIDES-CSSHSA

Week 3: Working Together, System Partners in Action
2026-05-15 10:00 - 12:00
Workplace Mental Health Webinar Series 3
From Research to Recommendations: A Decade of Mental Health in Ontario Mining
SPEAKERS: Caroline Dignard, PhD, CROSH; Zsuzsanna Kerekes, PhD, CROSH
Job-Level Psychosocial Risk Management using RADIUS
SPEAKER: Alan Cudlip, PhD, CCPE, PSHSA
From Insight to Action: Leveraging Psychosocial Survey Data to Strengthen Workplace Mental Health
SPEAKERS: Deborah Moskal and Scott Laing IHSA Register on Eventbrite

Week 5: Sector Spotlight — Mental Health in Ontario Agriculture
2026-05-29 10:00 - 12:00
Workplace Mental Health Webinar Series
Week Five: Sector Spotlight: Mental Health in Ontario Agriculture — Challenges, Supports, and Resources
Speakers:
Andria Jones, DVM, PhD, Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
Susana Gonzalez, Senior Manager, International Agriculture Worker Wellness Program, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)-Ontario
Diana Granobles, International Agricultural Wellness Outreach Support Worker, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)- Brant-Haldimand-Norfolk Branch
Leanne Laramie, MSW, RSW, Workplace Outreach Worker, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)-Windsor-Essex
Kristin Hoffman, R.Kin., Specialized Consultant (Agriculture), Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS)

Questions/ Discussion facilitated by Azuani Cano-OHCOW-TeaMWork Project, Latinx Community Outreach Worker
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