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Healthy Workplace Resources - Psychosocial Environment
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Balancing Work and Family
Explores how the changing relationship between family and
work affects organizations and employees. Focuses on work-family balance, work climate, work attitudes and outcomes, and the health of the worker.
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Barrier-Free Employers: Practical Guide for Employment Accommodation for People with Disabilities
Offers facts and practical advice on employment accommodation, and explains the steps to facilitate the inclusion of employees with disabilities into your work force.
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BC Council for Families
Offers information on issues to strengthen and support families.
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Benefits Canada
Provides valuable tool for anyone interested in benefits, pension investment and healthcare.
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Boston Center for Work and Family
Committed to enhancing the quality of life of today's workforce by providing leadership for the integration of work and life.
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Business and Economic Roundtable on Mental Health
Urges corporate leaders to consider a CEO-led business plan for depression.
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Canadian Centre for Stress and Well-Being/Stress Management Centre
Offers seminars; speakers; counselling; stress management education; consulting; executive coaching; relaxation training; tapes; self-help kits and publications.
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Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Offers referral to community services in caller's area; Action News official newsletter; online searchable database and directories; Lifestyle Interview on Substance Abuse of LISA Software (offers a quick check of alcohol, drug and tobacco use), which produces a summary for professionals and a verdict and advice for the interviewee.
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Canadian Health Network: People with Disabilities
Offers resources about people living with a disability.
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Canadian Hearing Society
Offers information on employment counselling services; interpreter services; hearing and workplace noise assessments; brochures and booklets on hearing loss, etc.
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Canadian Human Rights Commission
Offers links to provincial offices, and information on sexual harassment and the workplace.
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Canadian Institute for Stress
Prepares workplaces, communities, and individuals in the change-abilities and risk management strategies required for successful, not stressful transitions to their planned futures.
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Canadian Massage Therapists Alliance (CMTA)
Provides information and resources designed to promote the art, science, and philosophy of massage therapy for the betterment of health care in Canada. Membership is available, including referrals to provincial associations and research initiatives.
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Canadian Mental Health Association
Promotes the mental health of all people and to serve mental health consumers, their families and friends.
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Canadian Policy Research Networks
Provides policy makers and citizens the opportunity to learn and debate the economic and social issues important to Canadians.
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Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF)
This organization acts as a resource and facilitator in the pursuit of equity, fairness, and social justice. The website offers local referrals; information; and a report on employment issues called Unequal Access.
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Centre for Families, Work and Well-being
Information is available on work/life issues across the human and family life cycle, policy analysis and best practices.
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Controlling Anger -- Before It Controls You
Offers a research paper discussing anger and how to control it.
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Costs of Work-Life Conflict
This report uses survey data which was collected by Duxbury
and Higgins between 1991 and 1998 to examine the prevalence of work life conflict within Canada and the costs of such conflict to employees, their employers and to the health care system.
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Creating Healthy Workplaces: Report on the Institute for Work & Health's Third Annual Conference
Presents brief summaries of forward-looking papers describing current and anticipated changes in the relationship between technological change and the economy, consequences for workplaces and the health of workforce, and barriers and possible solutions for change.
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Credit Counselling Services of Alberta
Offers credit counselling services and information regarding budgeting and resources available.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Hosts an annual conference, publishes a journal for the employee assistance profession, and offers training and other resources to enhance the professionalism of its members and the industry.
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Employee Assistance Program Association of Toronto
Offers information on professional standards and assists in the professional development of its members.
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Employees: A Key Feedback Resource. Just ask Them!
Promotes the use of surveys to assess employees' needs as part of the National Quality Institute's and Brock University Wellness Institute's Employee Feedback System.
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Harvard Business Review: The Employee-Customer Profit Chain at Sears
Examines the employee-customer-profit model which has enabled Sears to increase its profits. Includes making Sears a "compelling place to work".
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Health Canada and the Canadian Council for Active Living at Work
Suggests the benefits of being active in the workplace, and provides a template for practitioners to use in developing a business case for active living in their own organizations.
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Health Communication Unit
Provides training and support in Health Communication, including Health Promotion Planning, Evaluation and Policy Change, and Sustainability.
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Health Promotion Ideas that Work
A "how-to" book of practical programming ideas that address topics of nutrition, fitness, stress, weight control, smoking cessation, cancer prevention, and work and family balance. Includes ideas for holidays, seasonal and general promotions.
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Institute for Work and Health
Provides research and promotes new ways to prevent workplace disability, improve treatment, and optimize recovery and safe return to work.
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Internet Mental Health
Explores an online encyclopaedia on mental health.
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Investing In Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion
Encourages and facilitates the implementation of Health Promotion as a means of pursuing organizational excellence and Comprehensive Workplace Health.
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Job Stress Network
Provides information about and related to work stress in general, including job strain.
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Kids Have Stress Too!
Provides information on how to effectively manage children's stress.
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Kids Health
Providing health information about children from before birth to adolescence.
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Mental Health Works
Helps organizations recognize the important role they can play in supporting the mental health of their employees and how they can respond appropriately when employees experience mental health problems.
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National Eating Disorder Information Centre
Offers listings of treatment services and resources from across the country, written information on eating disorders assistance with the development of information materials.
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National Foundation of Depressive Illness
Provides information on depressive illness and how to successfully treat this illness.
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National Institute of Disability Management and Research
Committed to reducing the human, social and economic cost of disability to workers, employers and society through education, training and research.
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Policy: The Key to a Healthy Workplace
Helps in the development of health promoting workplace policies in terms of healthy lifestyles, healthy environments, and social responsibility policies.
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Prevention and Resolution of Harassment in the Workplace
Promotes the prevention of harassment and focuses on its prompt resolution. Suggests methods of open communication and early intervention.
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Shifting to Wellness
A program offered by Keyano college Lifestyle Services. Provides practical solutions to reduce shift work stress with established recommendations aimed at achieving wellness in all individuals.
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Stress at Work
Highlights knowledge about the causes of stress at work and outlines steps that can be taken to prevent job stress.
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Stress Sense: Solutions for the Real World
Information on corporate workshops on stress and the workplace.
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Towards an Exemplary Workplace: Our Obligation to Promote and Ensure Work/Life Balance in the Public Service of Canada
Promotes and encourages the implementation of work/life balance strategies, such as the many forms of flexible working arrangements and other valuable suggestions.
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Vanier Institute of the Family
Provides information on families in Canada and the challenges families face in their diverse structures.
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Violence in the Workplace Prevention Guide
Provides detailed advice on how you can develop a workplace
violence prevention program. Includes specific prevention tips on a multitude of workplace and work-related travel situations, as well as practical advice on how you can respond to specific violent situations.
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Work & Family Connection
Offers valuable information about the connections between work and life.
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Work-Life Balance in Canadian Workplaces
Includes information about policies and programs regarding work-life balance in Canadian Workplaces. Includes: Voices of Canadians: Seeking Work-Life Balance and Collective Agreements and Older Workers in Canada
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Work-Life Compendium 2001: 150 Canadian Statistics on Work, Family and Well-Being
Provides a single source reference for Canadian family statistics including changes in the labour force, the composition of families, economic reality, workplace, child care and support, employer and employee relationships, legislation, attitudes and public opinion.
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Workplace Health Information: Absenteeism
Examines the impact of absenteeism on employees, the productivity of Canadian business, and the GDP. PDF file.
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Workplace Health Information: Juggling Home and Work
Investigates the difficulties faced by employees in balancing home and work life. PDF file.
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Workplace Stress: General
Provides answers to questions regarding workplace stress issues.
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World Federation for Mental Health
Promotes mental health through public education campaigns and membership.
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