Resources For the Workplace
Support Groups, Resources, Training
Lead Well and Stay Connected In Your Workplace
Need help navigating these mental health resources?
Mental health navigation is a new and unique service that helps Summit County residents walk through the complex system of mental health care and gets people connected to the appropriate resource when they experience barriers to access. Use our self-service mental health navigation tool or connect with a mental health navigator to find the services that would be most beneficial for you.
Bring Mental Wellness Into Your Workplace
Building Hope Workplace Mental Wellness Program
At Building Hope we believe in creating safe and supportive workplaces for our community residents and employees. Research shows that cultivating supportive mental health environments in the workplace helps to improve work satisfaction, employee retention, overall performance and more.
Building Hope is dedicated to helping employers create a workplace culture supportive of positive mental health in the community. We work with employers to assist with awareness of what mental health looks like, how it affects staff and the overall team, and work with employers to create a space for the team to talk about how they feel. We help employers to understand how to navigate when employees are struggling – how to be supportive to employee needs while enabling employers to continue workload production.
Interested in transforming your workplace into a place of mental wellness?
Contact info@buildinghopesummit.org.
Wellness Strategies
Building Hope Wellness Workplace Strategies help to:
- Manage employee stress
- Create a safe work environment
- Improve mental health
- Create an accepting and open community
- Start a dialogue within staff members
- Promote help-seeking behaviors
- Review provider plans with mental health coverage.
- Build resilience and life skills
Building Hope Workplace Programs and Strategies include:
- Mental Health Navigation and Literacy Training
- Question. Persuade. Refer. Training
- Mental Health First Aid Training
- Ambassador and Peer Support Training
- EAP Mental Health Scholarships
- Access to Anonymous Online Screening Tool
- Targeted Connectedness and Team Building Events
- Creating a safe space for employee conversations
- VitalCog trains organizations to identify the early warning signs of suicide.
Contact info@buildinghopesummit.org
Building Hope EAP
For Summit County small businesses and nonprofits, Building Hope can provide your employees with therapy sessions through our mental health scholarship program. These employer-sponsored scholarships would essentially function as an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that you could offer directly to your employees.
In an effort to stretch Building Hope’s mental health scholarship fund, we have created a program for employers that allows utilization of our scholarship network as an EAP program. This program would allow employees to access our therapy scholarship network as an EAP offering. The employer would be billed monthly by Building Hope for the number of therapy sessions used by eligible employees.
Building Hope has over 200 providers in our scholarship network; we’ve issued more than 1500 scholarships in the past three years, so the process for this is in place. All that is needed is verification of employment by the individual, information on current insurance benefits packages, then we send the employer a monthly bill for therapy provided. Because Building Hope can get great rates from providers, the program is both affordable for the employer and effective for the employee.
If you are a Summit County small business or nonprofit and are interested in providing an EAP to your employees, or to learn more about Building Hope’s EAP program, contact us at 970-485-6271 or email info@buildinghopesummit.org.
Mountain Strong EAP
Our partners at Mountain Strong also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to Summit County organizations. Mountain Strong is a program and online platform that supports the behavioral health needs of those who live or work in Summit and Eagle Counties in Colorado
The Mountain Strong system connects those needing behavioral health services with an approved licensed provider in the Mountain Strong network to receive therapy sessions. There are close to 200 licensed providers (a mix of in-person and telehealth) that are available to be seen through the Mountain Strong network, and many of those are locals of Summit County.
As a rural resort community, the behavioral health of our workforce is intrinsically tied to the overall health of our community, including physical, behavioral, and economic health. Mountain Strong has increased access to and utilization of behavioral health services across the community, and it has also helped to reduce stigma around seeking behavioral health services among employees and community members.
If your organization is interested in learning more about setting up an Employee Assistance Program through Mountain Strong to help your employees have better access to local mental health care, please click below to get in touch with Mountain Strong.
Colorado Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative (RFW)
The Colorado Recovery Friendly Workplace (RFW) Initiative is helping employers respond to mental health, substance use, and addiction challenges in the American workforce. RFW acknowledges the critical role employers play in elevating the importance of mental health in the workplace.
The objective of the initiative is to recruit business leaders across the state to collaboratively identify and implement RFW principles across all industries in order to improve workplace well-being and performance.
Building Hope Summit County is proud to be a Certified Recovery Friendly Workplace.
Resources
Crisis Resources
Colorado Crisis Resources (24/7) – 1-844-493-8255
SMART TEAM – Systemwide Mental Assessment Response Team – is a plainclothes Summit County Sheriff deputy, a behavioral health specialist, and a case manager who respond to mental health-related cases — including suicide threats, welfare checks, and more — to try to stabilize the person involved and de-escalate the situation. The program delivers a continuum of care from crisis response through stabilization, with the ultimate goal of safe return to the community.
SMART will respond to emergency and non-emergency crisis calls.
- Call 911 in an emergency
- Summit County non-emergency dispatch: 970-668-8600
- Colorado Crisis Services: 844-493-8255
Mental Health Resources
Policy Resources for Employers
Department of Labor Mental Health Tool Kit
Create a Mental Health Friendly Workplace
Workplace Strategies for Mental Health – Self Assessment Toolkit
Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) model developed by Dr. Sood.
The course is an integration of neuroscience, positive psychology, mindfulness, and resilience. The goal is not to eliminate stress, which isn’t feasible, but to harness our challenges, so they become growth opportunities—for ourselves and others. The course is designed to help you learn about the human neural vulnerabilities and leverage that knowledge to build a resilient brain. This training will be available in Late Fall/Winter of 2023.
For English contact: info@buildinghopesummit.org
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BUILDING HOPE CANNOT SUPPORT CRISIS CALLS. IF YOU ARE IN CRISIS, PLEASE CALL 911 AND ASK FOR SMART TEAM ASSISTANCE. OR FOR NON-EMERGENT NEEDS CALL COLORADO CRISIS SERVICES AT 844-493-8255 OR Text “TALK” to 38255.
Address
Office: 701 Granite St #270, Frisco, CO 80443
Mail: PO Box 1771, Frisco, CO 80443
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(970) 485-6271