MHFA21 - Working Together: Addressing Mental Health Challenges in the Workplace

Sunday, April 30, 2023

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM

Location: 515 B, Level 2, LACC

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Relias, LLC and National Council for Mental Wellbeing guarantee this educational conference is free from bias.

Presenter - MHFA Summit(s)

Kayleigh Truman, MA (they/them/theirs)

Advocate/Stagehand
WECA/IATSE Local One
Secaucus, New Jersey

Slides
Shaina Fawn, LCSW (she/her/hers)

Founder
Wellbeing in Entertainment and Creative Arts
Los Angeles, California

Staff Moderator - MHFA Summit(s)

Gina Ehlert, MEd

President and Chief Learning Officer
GETrainingSolutions
LOOMIS, California

Different work environments and industries have different challenges for their workers. How can we as MHFA Instructors help workers apply the MHFA Action Plan (ALGEE) at work? How can we encourage workers and managers to utilize their agency toward positive change? We will address how Instructors can encourage learners to help change their mental health subculture in the workplace.

Learning Objectives:

Discuss the intrinsic and reciprocal relationship between working and non-working life.
Examine workplace power dynamics and the way the way power structures commonly function differently in theory than in reality.
Explore how workplace conditions and subculture can make ALGEE and MHFA teachings more easily applicable and how MHFA principles have the power to transform toxic workplace cultures.
Identify ways of encouraging workers to employ agency in their own conversations and interventions.