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AbilitiCBT is an internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) program that you can access from any device, any time. The governments of Ontario and Manitoba are offering AbilitiCBT for free to all their residents age 16 or older for the anxiety, depression, and anxiety related to a pandemic programs. AbilitiCBT programs include anxiety, depression, anxiety related to a pandemic, pain management and insomnia. Source: AbilitiCBT

In this presentation, Dr. Nadia Aleem the difference between mental stress and illness, potential presentations and the impact of mental illness in the workplace, and how to develop an approach to case management of mental health claims.

This section is designed to provide you some tips on how to accommodate workers who have PTSD. Research has found that PTSD does have an impact on impaired occupational functioning, particularly as it relates to reduced productivity, presenteeism and absenteeism. This is not an exhaustive list of accommodations, there may be other ideas or options you may wish to use. Source: First Responders First

Guarding Minds at Work helps employers identify and measure employee experience with psychosocial factors known to have a powerful impact on organizational health, the health of individual employees, and the financial bottom line. Guarding Minds was commissioned in 2007 by Canada Life Assurance Company and continues to be supported by Workplace Strategies for Mental Health. It is hosted by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety who are responsible for preserving the confidentiality of data collected. It was originally developed by experienced research-practitioners from the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Source: Guarding minds at work

The Ontario Workplace Health Champions Program operates in Ontario’s medical schools and is funded by the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. The Program funds one physician faculty member at each medical school to oversee and support occupational medicine content in the medical curriculum at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Source: Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

The Community Mental Health Program gives people access to psychological assessment and evidence-based, outcome-focused treatment and lets psychologists spend more time on treating people and less on administration. The WSIB and the Ontario Psychological Association collaborated in developing this program. Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)

Physicians and patients can request access to their WSIB case file. All claim file information is considered personal information under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and may be disclosed in limited circumstances in accordance with various exceptions listed in FIPPA. Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)

When certain conditions are met, injury employers may have, in addition to their obligations to cooperate in the return-to-work (RTW) process, an obligation to re-employ a worker who has been unable to work due to a work-related injury. Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)