Resources for employees for mental health in the workplace

Resources and services

• Crisis lines and services

  • Transgender crisis line 1-877-330-6366
  • Find your local distress centre and crisis organizations at Crisis services Canada
  • Hope for Wellness Chat
• Federal Informal Conflict Management System ICMS

  As a body of experts providing leadership in the field, the Federal ICMS Network works with management and union representatives to influence, promote and strategically integrate ICMS into the federal public service. Employees in every department and agency in the federal public service have access to free, confidential and voluntary informal conflict management services (ICMS). Call your ICMS office to find out how they can help you to prevent, manage and resolve a workplace issue.

• Financial Well-being

  Access information, tools and videos about managing your money, debt and investments, planning for retirement and protecting yourself from consumer fraud.

• Employee Assistance Program

  Federal departments and agencies in the core public administration are required to make available to employees a confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP). An EAP provides free short-term counselling for personal or work-related problems as well as crisis counselling. More than 80 federal departments and agencies receive their EAP services through Health Canada, while other organizations provide this service internally or purchase it from the private sector. If you are unsure who the service provider for your organization is, please contact your organization’s Departmental Coordinator for the Employee Assistance Program (link available internally only) or your human resources team to find out more information about your Employee Assistance Program.

• Occupational health and safety fact sheets

  Read question-and-answer fact sheets covering a wide range of workplace health and safety topics, from hazards to diseases to ergonomics to workplace promotion.

• Coping with stress

  Find information about symptoms and effects of stress and several strategies to help you deal with stress.

  Access the Stress Strategies tool that uses practical, problem-solving methods to help identify and address the source of our stress.

• People-to-people communication

  Explore the subject of harassment prevention and resolution in the federal workplace, and contribute to building a healthy workplace by learning key communication skills.

• Improving your mental health

  • In this Plan for Resilience: Workplace edition, there are separate pages to deal with work resilience for leaders, for employees, and for the self-employed.
  • Find information about mental health and ways to improve it at work and in your daily life.
• Healthy Break Activities

  Subscribe to weekly Take Your Break emails for practical and engaging break time activities that focus on helping to improve mental health at work.

• Suicide prevention

  The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), in collaboration with the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention, the Centre for Suicide Prevention, and the Public Health Agency of Canada has developed two toolkits to support people who have been impacted by suicide. One toolkit is tailored for people who have attempted suicide, and the other is focused on resources for people who have lost someone to suicide.

Tools