2011 Mental Health Summit Vancouver – Conference Coverage

Employers can play a critical role in helping employees with mental illness. How can employers help their employees move beyond the stigma and take responsibility for their own mental health?

This was the core question posed at the fourth annual Vancouver edition of the Working Well Mental Health Summit on Dec. 8, 2011. Given that close to half of workers in Canada have experienced mental health issues and as many as 92% of people on mental health leave have identified the workplace as the cause, this is a question that needs to be answered in practice, in the field.