Pre-Summit Workshops

Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses Summit 2016:
Advancing Collective Action on Campus Mental Health and Substance Use

Cultivating a Campus Culture of Well-being with Intention:
Aligning Policies, Practices and Core Mission

As part of the upcoming Summit we are pleased to be organizing pre-Summit workshops that will take place on Thursday, March 10, from 1:00pm – 5pm.

Registration Deadline: Extended until Monday, March 7th at 4pm PST

Pre-Summit Workshop 1

Implementing the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace: Applying a Whole Campus Approach for All

Pre-Summit Workshop 2

Evaluation of Settings and Whole Systems Approaches - How do you know that your campus initiatives are making a difference?

Please note that the workshops will be running concurrently, so please select one of the two to attend.

Location: Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver

The cost to register for one of these workshops is $50 for Summit Attendees and $75 for non-Summit Attendees. There is also a student rate available for $10.

To learn more about the full Summit, visit https://healthycampuses.ca/summit/2016/

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Pre-Summit Workshop 1

Implementing the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace: Applying a Whole Campus Approach for All

Workshop Overview

This workshop will concretely explore the National Standard and the 13 factors of psychological health and safety. Participants will be introduced to the National Standard with an overview of its rationale, purpose and key features. Guidance will be provided on how to navigate the Standard and practical resources to support the creation of mentally healthy workplaces will be shared (E.g. resources around assessing where your campus is at and taking action). There will be focused consideration of the unique context post-secondary staff and faculty are operating in, as well as how human resource efforts can connect with student services initiatives and together foster healthy campus communities. Finally, there will be an exploration of how campus stakeholders can gain buy-in from leadership to invest in psychological health and safety.

The workshop will include an opportunity for participants to discuss challenges, share successes and learn from each other’s experiences in the campus setting.

Audience

• Human Resource Personnel
• Managers, Directors, Deand and other Administrators who oversee staff teams
• Mental Health Strategy/ Healthy Campus Leads
• Students interested in the National Standard and Workplace Mental Health

Workshop Facilitators

Sarika Gundu

Director, Workplace Mental Health Program, Canadian Mental Health Association – National Office

Sarika leads the CMHA nation-wide Workplace Mental Health Program. This program includes a suite of tools and resources that support both the employer and the employee. She works closely with CMHA colleagues, partners and stakeholders at the national, provincial and local levels to improve capacity and delivery of workplace mental health programs and services to support the implementation of Canada’s National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety. Sarika is currently a member of the steering committee for the Mental Health Commission of Canada Case Study Research Project and a member of the technical committee for the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety.

Julia Kaisla

Director, Community Engagement, Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division

Julia is the Director of Community Engagement for the Canadian Mental Health Association, BC Division. While her more formal role with CMHA BC involves overseeing workplace initiatives, public relations and branch relations, she spends her days writing and working with people. She is passionate about making a difference and is committed to promotion of mental health in Canada. She is a trained Mental Health Works facilitator, has a graduate degree in Conflict Analysis and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.

Background Information

The vision for a psychologically healthy and safe workplace is one that actively works to prevent harm to worker psychological health, including in negligent, reckless, or intentional ways, and promotes psychological well-being. This voluntary Standard has been developed to help organizations strive towards this vision as part of an ongoing process of continual improvement.

Psychological health and safety is embedded in the way people interact with one another on a daily basis and is part of the way working conditions and management practices are structured and the way decisions are made and communicated. While there are many factors external to the workplace that can impact psychological health and safety, this Standard addresses those psychological health and safety aspects within the control, responsibility, or influence of the workplace that can have an impact within, or on, the workforce.

For an overview of the National Standard, please click here >>

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Pre-Summit Workshop 2

Evaluation of Settings and Whole Systems Approaches

This workshop will engage participants in addressing the question – how do you know that your campus initiatives are making a difference?

Cultivating a culture of well-being on campus and taking a systemic approach to mental health and substance use requires multiple initiatives, at multiple levels. It means shifting culture, policies and conditions, and ultimately changing complex systems. The “outcomes” of these change efforts are often not immediate and attribution can be a challenge.

This workshop will create an opportunity to explore what you can measure and what techniques and methods can be used to evaluate your impact.

Audience:

• Practitioners and Administrators from Student Services
• Institutional Research Department Members
• Stakeholders responsible for key performance indicators.
• Instructors/Researchers from related Faculties/Departments
• Student Leaders and Student Studying Evaluation

Workshop Facilitator

Ben Pollard

Director, VPS Portfolio Initiatives, University of British Columbia

Ben Pollard is Director of Strategic Initiatives with the Vice-President Students Office at UBC Vancouver, and has responsibility for the Student Experience Evaluation and Research Unit, which conducts surveys, evaluation and research projects in support of program and policy decisions.

Ben’s area of research is decision-making in complex social policy areas. He has spent the last 15 years working on a broad array of policy areas within government, non-profit and post-secondary environments, with a focus on evaluation, performance measurement/management, and decision support.

*Details subject to change*