Additional Resources for Assisting Employees with Mental or Substance Use Disorders [2.2.2.I.e.2]

• SAMHSA’s Wellness Initiative, which promotes wellness for people with mental or substance use disorders. The aim is to inspire individuals, families, behavioral health and primary care providers, and peer-run, faith-based, and other community organizations to improve health behaviors. This website also includes tools to help encourage individuals to explore their talents, skills, interests, social connections, and environment and incorporate the eight dimensions of wellness into their lives.
• Workplaces That Thrive: A Resource for Creating Mental Health-Friendly Work Environments is a SAMHSA resource.
• Building the Mentally Healthy Workplace: A Strategic Plan for Improving Employer Mental Health Practices is a strategic plan for improving employer mental health practices from Mental Health America of Wisconsin.
• A Guide for Assisting Colleagues Who Demonstrate Impairment in the Workplace is a resource from the Washington State Department of Health and Washington Nurses Association.
• Making Wellness Worth Your While: Worksite Wellness Toolkit is a resource developed by Minnesota’s PartnerSHIP 4 Health.
• Mental Health and Chronic Disease in the Workplace is a 2012 presentation by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Healthy Worksite program.
• The 2012 issue brief, Mental Health and Chronic Disease, from the CDC’s National Healthy Worksite program offers information on chronic diseases and mental health disorders.
• A Mentally Healthy Workforce—It’s Good for Business is a brochure developed in 2006 by the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health, a program of the American Psychiatric Foundation.
• The Partnership for Workplace Mental Health website provides information, publications, and surveys on workplace mental health.