The Mental Health Commission of Canada has published its five-year strategic plan, which will span from 2017 to 2022, and encapsulates the “truly revolutionary” step of talking about mental health in the workplace.
Among its priorities, the MHCC’s strategic plan aims to optimize working relationships with the provinces and territories to build a smart and streamlined pan-Canadian system. It is also aiming to raise the profile of mental health and wellness in Canada by developing a strategic communications plan and working closely with mental-health champions, as well as being an active global mental-health leader by building and maintaining relationships with mental-health champions around the globe.
The organization offers tools and resources to help employers safeguard their employees’ mental health. “These efforts complement our sweeping work on recovery-oriented practice; a concept that will ultimately bring transformational change across the mental health sector,” the MHCC said in its strategic plan.
“Over the next five years, this plan will serve as the roadmap we will follow as we work together with our partners to achieve our vision: mental health and wellness for all.”
The plan’s strategic objectives are:
- Leadership, partnership and capacity building;
- Promotion of the Mental Health Strategy for Canada; and
- Knowledge mobilization.
“Our strategic plan is an ambitious and welcoming call to action,” said Louise Bradley, president and chief executive officer of the MHCC, in a news release. “It is a reminder that the mental health and wellness of Canadians is a responsibility we all must shoulder.”
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Read the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s 2017 – 2022 strategic plan