This session will be presented by:  | Carmen Bellows, Registered Psychologist
Director Mental Health Solutions
Sun Life Financial
Carmen is a Registered Psychologist with a Master degree in Counseling Psychology. She has extensive experience in the field of psychology including community and workplace mental health. She is a contributor to the mental health strategy at Sun Life and previously on the board of directors for the Canadian Psychological Association. Her clinical experience includes critical incident response, large employee and family assistance programs, outpatient psychiatry departments and private practice. | | Carmen speaks locally and nationally on numerous mental health related topics for both business and the greater health community. She is actively involved in provincial and national working groups for mental health related topics including chronic pain and addiction, while also maintaining an active private practice
As a Director of Mental Health Solutions, Carmen collaboratively works with various Sun Life business units to ensure mental health knowledge, and best practice is embedded throughout our work. She is passionate and driven to positively affect the lives of a Canadians.
|  | Cheryl Nicholson
Director, Claims Strategy, Group Benefits
Industrial Alliance
Cheryl is an experienced leader in disability management, rehabilitative and return to work solutions, with a deep knowledge and experience in claims management. She is a registered occupational therapist. She has spent her career working with clients, employers, insurers and community treatment providers in helping individuals in their recovery, return to functional activity and successful productive work.
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Cheryl started her career working in an outpatient program at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto, which ignited a passion and focus on mental health. She utilized that passion to augment iA’s mental health training program in disability, introduced motivational interviewing, has given various presentations on the management of mental health, and she has been an active member of the CLHIA Committee on Mental Health in the Workplace from 2015 – 2019. As the Director of Claims Strategy, Cheryl is responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining new initiatives to provide distinct solutions to address the growing needs of plan administrators, plan members, plan sponsors and iA’s claims teams. | | |
Learning objectives - Roles and responsibilities of Managers in supporting an employee when they are off work
- How to set the stage for an employee’s return to the workplace
- Understanding how your organizations benefits can effectively support employees with mental illness
- Understand how the process of ‘checking in’ with staff can ensure overall health of individuals and the organization
- What’s changed and what trends are we seeing in mental health claims since the pandemic?
- What does it all mean for employers, insurers and workplaces today?
- How can organizations and employers pivot and adapt to meet these challenges amidst remote work, growing mental health concerns and anxieties surrounding the longer term effects of the pandemic.
- Understand how your insurer and your wellness programs can help.
- Understand how a more simplified, early and even preventative approach to managing mental health might be the better solution.
- And, get practical tips which plan sponsors can take away and use.
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| When Thursday March 24, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MT - Presentation
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm MT - Questions and CE credit quiz | | Registration Fee CPBI Members: $25
Future Members: $40
Virtual Table of 4: $90/$140
Virtual Table of 6: $125/$200
Virtual Table of 8: $160/$250 | | | | | | | | Where Online Session Access information will be sent to all registrants one day in advance of the online session. For virtual tables, the names and email addresses of table attendees must be submitted 72 hours prior to the event in order to receive the access information. Please plan to log in 10 minutes prior to the start of the session. This session will be recorded and available to registrants. | | Who Should Attend: - Plan Sponsors
- Education Specialists
- Human Resource Professionals
- Retirement Professionals
- Consultants and Brokers
- Employers, leaders and managers
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CE Credit CE credits will be offered in partnership through the BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario Insurance Councils. A short quiz must be completed at the conclusion of the seminar to qualify for credit. AIC CE Credits Pending | |
Questions
Krista Frayn
Phone: (403) 888-3185
[email protected] | |
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