The health and safety of our staff is a top priority at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. As the demands on our staff continue to grow, we recognize certain events and situations will pose personal, social, and emotional challenges to everyone.
To our staff: THANK YOU! Thank you for all the work you do to help ensure our clients and colleagues are safe. Your efforts are instrumental in allowing us to continue providing services to our clients and families in a safe environment. We couldn’t do this without you! #StrongerTogether.
About this page
This page has been created to provide staff with resources, tips, and tools to help cope with the challenges across the hospital. Below are links to:
- Resources for all staff, as well as links to leadership resources to help managers support their teams; and
- Initiatives Holland Bloorview has implemented to help staff during this time.
These pages and links will be updated on a regular basis and we will also be including updates in the COVID-19 bulletin. If you are a staff or student, and have any suggestions on wellness initiatives or resources that you think would be beneficial, please let the People and Culture team know.
Employee and Family Assistance Program by LifeWorks, provides you and your family with immediate and confidential support to help resolve work, health, and life challenges and includes:
Counsellors trained in diverse areas of mental health and wellbeing
Advisors on legal, financial and other issues
Intersecting wellbeing products, programs and resources curated by experts
A digital experience capable of reaching every employee
Telephone: 1-844-880-9137
Website: workhealthlife.com
Highlights from LifeWorks
- LifeWorks Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) resources
- Newsletter: Building relationships
- Telemedicine for employees
- Newsletter: April 2021
- Managing fear and anxiety about infection after lockdown lifts
- Well-being Wednesdays
- "A stable mindset in an unstable world"
- Taking care after traumatic event
- How a traumatic event can affect you
- Tips for helping your child through a traumatic event
- Coping with Feelings of Fear and Anxiety About Violence
Mindful Self Compassion
Coping with Stress and Mental Health Resources
- Chair yoga (13 minutes)
- CMHA - Resources for crisis (Ontario)
- CMHA - Return to the workplace: A psychological toolkit for heading back to work
- Time Magazine's - Finding Hope - Time 100 Community navigating our new reality
- Living in uncertain times
- Mood Self-Assessment
- How to make stress your friend (Ted Talk)
- Free online teletherapy for healthcare workers
- COVID-19 mental health resources for staff
- Mental health & wellness
Working from Home Resources
- Home workouts
- How to prepare yourself for a return to the office
- Desk Mobility Guide + free 60 minute treatment
- Here's why you're feeling Zoom fatigue
- How to combat Zoom fatigue
- Ergonomics & Tips while working from home
- How to master working from home - with kids
- 10 tips to avoid loneliness while working from home
- How to cope with loneliness if working remotely
- Tips for working from home effectively
- Tech tips for working from home
Building Resilience
- Building resilience 3-part series (recorded webinars)
- Building your resilience
- Five science-based strategies to build resilience
- Resilience in a pandemic: Tuning into your narrative of loss and growth
Other Resources
Recovery Planning
Tip Sheets
- Emotional Intelligence: Applying EI during COVID-19 (PDF)
- Leadership Forum April 20 2020 Summary (PDF)
- Leading self and engaging others in turbulent times (PDF)
- Leading through uncertainty with LEADS (PDF)
- Tips for managing teams remotely (PDF)
- Shifting perspectives as a leader (PDF)
Workbooks
- Coping with Corona: Applying emotional intelligence at work and home
- Leading with resilience during times of change
Articles
Remote managers are having trust issues - Harvard Business Review (article)
Webinars
- CCHL Event: Leading in turbulent times – how to guide your teams through the coronavirus pandemic with Dr. Michael Gardam - March 19, 2020 (video)
- Supporting the well-being of health care workers on the front line of the COVID-19 crisis with Dr. Christine Korol - April 9, 2020 (video)
Podcasts
- Apps for mental and physical wellness (PDF)
- Wellness initiatives during COVID-19 pandemic (PDF)
- Other perks for Holland Bloorview staff (PDF) updated April 21, 2020
- More perks for healthcare workers new
