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Return to work and stay at work: Support for employees with mental illness

Thursday, April 26th, 2018 at 2:00pm ET

Introducing Manulife’s new Healthy Workplace Series
A 6-part educational mental health, wellness and disability webinar series – starting January 25, 2018
•    Learn proactive and preventive approaches to managing mental health
      and wellness
•    Discover strategies to help reduce the effect of mental health challenges
      in your workplace
•    Hear new methods and ideas to help build a program to best support
      your employees

Join our third webinar – April 26, 2018 at 2 p.m. EST
Return to work and stay at work: Support for employees with mental illness

Mental health issues make up 30% of all disability claims and 70% of disability claim costs. They affect your organization’s bottom line and the productivity of your employees.

What are the signs and symptoms of mental illness in the workplace? How do you know when mental health struggles are the cause of poor productivity? How do you provide early support and prevent an absence? And what can you do to help an employee successfully return to work?

In this third session of our Healthy Workplace Series, we’ll share specific, practical strategies to help an employee return to work after taking time off because of mental illness. We’ll also outline ways to help the employee stay at work.

Our speakers:

Gillian Wells is a Mental Health Specialist at Manulife. In her role, she guides the successful management of mental health claims and develops and implements best practices for mental health disability management. Gillian has a Master's in Social Work and is a part-time lecturer at the University of Waterloo.

She is a registered social worker with more than 10 years of clinical counselling experience. She has delivered numerous presentations to large organizations on workplace mental health as well as EAP mental health workshops.

Michelle Harper is Director, National Best Practices, Wellness, Disability and Life. Michelle leads the national best practices team responsible for Training & Development, the audit program, legislative changes, and our National Mental Health Specialist team. In this role, she utilizes her extensive work experience in many aspects of disability management gained from her 20+ year career with Manulife.

Previously , she was a Director in our Disability operations, responsible for Toronto teams of front-line disability claims staff, where she provided support in the areas of training and development, quality assurance and audit/fraud management. She also supported many of our Corporate clients as a Disability Management Consultant for many years as well as holding supervisory and case management roles within our organization.

Mark your calendar! Additional topics in our series

Medical Marijuana	June 14 – 2:00 p.m.
Productivity: Mental health disorders and presenteeism	October 4 – 2:00 p.m.
Wellness programing: Implementing the Voluntary National Standard for Psychologically Safe and Healthy Workplaces	December 6 – 2:00 p.m.

 

Missed a topic?

ROI verses VOI – Where to start?	Hosted January 25 – 2:00 p.m.
Prevention: Strategies to reduce mental health stigma in the workplace	Hosted March 8 – 2:00 p.m.