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Conference Coverage: 2025 Mental Health Summit

Benefits Canada has recognized the importance of workplace mental health for 20 years by hosting the annual Mental Health Summit, the industry’s most popular and well-known conference in this space.

Designed for our audience of employers and the advisors who consult with them, this virtual event on June 10 covered key areas, including women’s mental health, psychosocial risks, postpartum depression and much more.

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Carmen Bellows
Sun Life Financial Inc.

Exploring gender differences in workplace mental health

Gender differences in mental health manifest through biology, gender roles and cultural expectations.

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Valerie Fernandez
Beneva

Maude Villeneuve
Laval University

A shared responsibility to address psychosocial risks

The costs associated with mental-health stress and psychosocial risks are extremely high — in Canada, they amount to about $50 billion in direct costs and $500 billion in indirect costs.

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Dr. Archana Vidyasankar
Memorial University of Newfoundland

A look at the importance of maternal mental health

Mood, anxiety and related disorders are some of the most common conditions that arise in pregnancy and in the year after childbirth.

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Stephanie Ipavec-Levasseur
Desjardins Insurance

Managing addiction in the workplace

With more than 70 per cent of individuals who use alcohol or illicit drugs actively employed, addiction is present in the workplace and has consequences for these individuals, their colleagues and their employers.

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Robert Cross
iA Financial Group

How to develop a workplace accommodation framework

While successfully reintegrating employees into the workplace following an illness or injury clearly benefits the returning employee, it also benefits employers by enabling employees to continue contributing to the organization and mitigating costs such as premiums.

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Georgia Pomaki
Manulife Canada

Advancing women’s mental health good for employees and employers

Women’s mental health has historically been underfunded and under-researched, with just three per cent of neuroscience and psychiatry studies between 2009 and 2019 conducted exclusively in females, compared to about 30 per cent in males.

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Catherine Biermann
Medavie Blue Cross

Kristina Rodenhurst
Beyond ADHD

Dr. Hanif Chatur
Beyond ADHD

Rethinking ADHD care, employer support can deliver meaningful ROI

The group insurance industry saw a rapid rise in claims related to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during the coronavirus pandemic, particularly among women aged 40 and older.

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Carolyn Tong
Peel Region

Peel Region’s innovative approach to workplace psychological safety

Since Peel Region provides various services with different work environments for each department, the skill sets, relationship dynamics and daily interactions in each department is distinct, as is the effect on employee mental health.

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Conference Coverage: 2025 Mental Health Summit

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