How to Create a Culture of Support and Well-being: Insights From Mental Health America

Historically, organizations have addressed mental health and illness in the workplace by responding to workplace incidents with restrictive policies that hinder or worsen conditions for employees. Mental Health America (MHA) aims to shift the paradigm by focusing on workplace policies, practices, and programs rooted in prevention and early intervention and holistically support workers’ mental health and well-being.

MHA developed its Workplace Mental Health Toolkit: Creating a Culture of Support and Well-being to help organizations contribute to a mentally healthy workforce by providing leadership, human resources, people managers, and employees with public education and other resources that can be used to improve workplace culture and benefits that support mental health. Join MHA and FlexJobs for a 1-hour live webinar on Tuesday, November 8, at 11:30 AM ET to learn more about the toolkit and how to implement it in your workplace.

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Taylor Adams is Mental Health America’s (MHA’s) Director of Workplace Mental Health, who spearheads MHA’s efforts on its Bell Seal for Workplace Mental Health national employer recognition program and its annual Mind the Workplace reports. Her previous work was focused on suicide prevention, and she brings this experience to support companies in evaluating and refining policies to support staff in their mental health journeys.

Mental Health America (MHA) - founded in 1909 - is the nation’s leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of those living with mental illness and promoting all Americans’ overall mental health