Mental Health & Happiness
Resources
Implementation Ideas
- WellTrack Boost Mental Health Management App
As a BYU employee, you have access to a free account with WellTrack Boost, an app designed to help you manage stress and take care of your mental health.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Receive initial counseling from licensed professionals for emotional concerns for you or your family members. Available to all non-student employees and members of their household.
- BYU Counseling and Psychological (CAPS) Resources
Although Counseling from CAPS is a resource for students, their website is replete with a wide variety of useful tools and information available to anyone such as TED talks, relaxation recordings, breathing pacers, handouts, soothing sounds, and more.
- Department Training (see Stress Management)
Trainings through HRD on a variety of topics.
- QPR Training
QPR is a nationally recognized suicide prevention program aimed at helping you know what to do and say when someone close to you is considering suicide.
- Wellness Presentations (see Simplicity, Stress Management Strategies, Understanding Mindful Meditation, Warding Off the Winter Blues)
- BYU Comprehensive Clinic
The BYU Comprehensive Clinic offers counseling services for individuals, couples, and families in the Utah County community.
- Promote the WellTrack Boost Mental Health Management App
Encourage coworkers to download the WellTrack Boost app that helps with stress, anxiety, and depression. Active BYU employees have access to an account for free using their NetID@byu.edu email address.
- Schedule a Stress Management Presentation
Invite a wellness coordinator to give a short presentation in your department such as: Stress Management , Warding off the Winter Blues, or Mindful Meditation
- Use Handouts from the BYU CAPS Website
Share a handout from a variety of topics available on BYU’s Counseling and Psychological Services.
- Check out Chair Massage Pads
Check out the chair massage pads for your team during a week when work is stressful time.
- Host a Daily Stretch Break
Host a 5–10-minute stretch or meditation break where everyone can take a moment to reconnect, relax, and rejuvenate mid-day.
- Work to Resolve Work Related Stress
You could use this managing stress worksheet as a group to identify effective ways to minimize or alleviate work related stress.
- Share Helpful Stress Management Information
Some ideas for what to share are: Kelly McGonigal’s TED talk How to Make Stress Your Friend, or information on this website under Emotional Wellness
- Host a Stress Management Challenge
There are a variety of challenges on in the toolbox aimed at managing stress, such as: Sleep, simplicity, step away from stress bingo, take 10, mindfulness, and stretching.
- Lead a Group Journaling Activity
Host a guided journaling experience. You could provide 3-4 different journaling prompts. Toward the end of the time, encourage everyone to take a moment to reread what they've written, and add closing thoughts, feelings or summaries. Some could share what they wrote if they want.
- Hold a Focus Group
Hold a focus group to discuss mental health and how to address it in your department.
- Share Information Regarding BYU's Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Remind coworkers that the Employee Assistance Program is available to DMBA holders and members of their household to offer emotional support.
- Provide QPR Training
Schedule a QPR training for your department so people know how to help those with suicidal thoughts: https://caps.byu.edu/training-on-helping-with-suicidal-concerns
- Provide Student in Distress Training
Train on how to recognize and respond to students in distress and how to make appropriate referrals. https://caps.byu.edu/for-faculty-and-staff
- Share Mental Health Information
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints website has a lot of information regarding Mental Health that you can draw from.