Partnership for Workplace Mental Health
E-Update, February 2008
SAVE THE DATE
- Behavioral Risk Management: DMEC 2008 Workforce Productivity Institute
April 3 - 4, 2008
Marriott City Center
30 South Seventh Street,
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Recent studies confirm that behavioral issues are primary drivers of medical costs and productivity loss, accounting for more incidents of employee absence than physical illness or injury. In fact, if your company is typical, behavioral driven short-term disability claims could account for 30% or more of your corporate disability experience. Disability Management Employer Coalitions Behavioral Risk Conference can help you manage this significant expense.
The Partnership will be participating in a panel presentation titled Taking Action to Reduce the Impact of Mental Illness on the Bottom Line. Panelists will discuss their experience facilitating employee mental health and next steps in translating awareness into sound corporate policy that impacts the bottom line.
For more details or to register online, visit www.dmec.org - DMEC 2008 Annual International Conference, "Scaling New Heights: Reviewing the Past, Discussing the Present, Defining the Future
August 10 - 13, 2008
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center 650 15th Street Denver, CO 80202
The Disability Management Employer Coalitions Annual Conference is the ONE place where human resource professionals from across the country come together to share thoughts, strategies, and ideas on best practices, emerging technologies, and practical applications within the broad, evolving field of employee productivity, disability, and absence management.
For more details, visit the www.dmec.org.
- Partnership's Database of Employers Innovations now online! More and more businesses understand WHY they should address mental health at the workplace.
In response, the Partnership has developed an online, searchable database that profiles employers innovative programs and practices to show HOW.
This easily navigated and user-friendly tool that describes the actual practices of leading companies in key areas, such as screening and education, Employee Assistance Programs, disability management, and wellness programs. Each entry, or case study, in the database describes the practice(s) of one employer, such as American Airlines, DuPont, JPMorgan Chase, Pitney Bowes, and Sprint. Users have the option of searching by employer name, type of program, number of employees, type of industry, or geographical region.
Click here to access the database! - We invite you to participate in this exciting new project! Are you doing something at your workplace to address mental health? Have you found success with a specific approach
from which others can learn? Interested companies and organizations can submit their innovative approaches to workplace mental health online at
www.workplacementalhealth.org/search.aspx, or contact Mary Claire Leftwich
at (703) 907- 8561 or mleftwich@psych.org.
- Share Mental HealthWorks with your colleagues! Through your affiliation with the Partnership, we are pleased to offer you the opportunity to share our
free quarterly newsletter with your colleagues. Visit www.workplacementalhealth.org to
download a PDF of the newsletter, or email mhw@psych.org to be placed on the email or print subscription list.
Our latest issue includes stories on
- Partnership Launches New Database
- Cisco Systems Connects Integration And Prevention to Keep Young Workforce Healthy
- Here's Why Employers Should Screen for Alcohol
- Productivity Improves When Depressed Employees Receive "Enhanced" Treatment
- Psychiatric Disability Report Speaks to Clinicians
WORKPLACE MENTAL HEALTH NEWS - That Sinking Feeling: Depression saps workers, employers. Mental illness takes bigger toll on business than physical woes, and disability absences
are twice as long when triggered by depression. Whats more, studies indicate that roughly 6% of the U.S. work force is depressed at any given time.
Visit Financial Week.com for the full article text. (Taken from the January 14, 2008 issue)
INFORMATION FOR EMPLOYEES & THEIR FAMILIES - African American Mental Health. Mental illness does not discriminate. People of all racial, ethnic, religious and socioeconomic groups experience mental illness. The American Psychiatric Association has published a new fact sheet on Mental Health in the African American Community. Visit www.HealthyMinds.org for more information, and share this with your co-workers and friends.
Thank you for your continued interest in the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health. If you have any questions, or you wish not to receive these updates, please e-mail Mary Claire Leftwich at mleftwich@psych.org. Visit www.workplacementalhealth.org or call 703-907-8561 for more information.