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Did you know? For every $100 invested in mental health interventions, a company sees a return of up to $600 in improved health and productivity of employees (Deloitte MCS, 2017). Read more!

Since LEAD believes price should never be a barrier to critical mental health and DEI education, we encourage small businesses and nonprofits that require financial assistance to complete LEAD’s Scholarship Application Form.

Mental Health & Inclusion Training for the Workplace

LEAD empowers employees with no-fluff mental health and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training, coaching, and consulting to proactively prevent burnout, maximize productivity, and foster psychological safety in the workplace.

LEAD provides employees with practical skills, tools, and strategies to promote change management and fortify existing DEI initiatives in the workplace. LEAD’s evidence-based courses move “beyond talk” with their tangible takeaways, moving the needle on critical competencies, removing mental blockages to innovation, and building resilience in workplaces across the country. 

Explore Key Features & Benefits of LEAD’s corporate programming, including (1) Peace of Mind; (2) Customization; and (3) Accessibility. Download our “Full Menu of Programming” for a summary of the following webpage.

Download LEAD’s Ultimate Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for HR Professionals & Organizations.

Want even more? Visit LEAD’s Workplace Resource Page for exclusive, FREE access to previously-recorded live mental health and DEI-related webinars, guides, blogs, and tools for HR professionals.

4-Hour Corporate Mental Health Certification

Target Audience: All Members of a Workplace Community (i.e. HR Professionals, Executives, Managers, Board Members, General Employees, & Maintenance Staff)

Mode: In-Person or Virtually Via Zoom 

Duration:  4-Hour Minimum

LEAD’s Corporate Mental Health certification (CorporateMHC) introduces executives and leadership teams to the risk factors, warning signs, and prevalence of chronic stress and mental illness in the workplace. CorporateMHC is the nation’s first early intervention certification tailored to in-person, virtual, and hybrid workplace and corporate settings.

Through interactive discussion, role-play activities, and an ABC action plan, LEAD empowers professionals to identify early signs and symptoms of mental illness in their coworkers and effectively respond in both non-crisis and crisis situations. 

How is it Different than Adult Mental Health First Aid? Topics related to mental illness and common in the workplace, such as self-medication, absenteeism, presenteeism, and imposter syndrome are introduced to participants in a 4-hour, rather than an 8-hour format. Additionally, participants leave the course with a personal toolkit featuring strategies to practice proactive self-care and access appropriate self-help, company-based, and professional resources. This means that LEAD will empower participants to maximize their organization’s EAP’s and utilize physical and mental health resources, many of which are likely being paid for and grossly underutilized. 

Additionally, aMHFA is more focused on empowering workplace leaders to support staff and others in their community, rather than their own mental health at work. If aMHFA is provided for leadership staff, LEAD strongly recommends pairing it with CorporateMHC for all other staff and teams to ensure everyone knows how to set appropriate workplace boundaries, prevent burnout, and avoid developing compassion fatigue over time. 

Download LEAD’s Ultimate Guide to Mental Health for HR Professionals & Organizations (Coming Soon!)

Participants Are Empowered To:

• Recognize the difference between and the relationship of mental health and mental illness at work.

• Promote mental health and model proactive self-care strategies to build psychological safety at work. 

• Apply a three-step action plan to both crisis and non-crisis mental health situations.

• Connect coworkers to community-based, self-help, and professional resources.

Participants do not learn to diagnose or provide therapy or counseling.

Additional Information for HR Directors, Managers, & Executives:

1. LEAD can extend the length of CorporateMHC to five or six hours to provide extra time to practice applying the ABC Action Plan to crisis and non-crisis situations and to emotionally debrief with participants ($275/hour). 

2. If 75% of staff are present at the Corporate Mental Health certification (CorporateMHC), both the participants and the company receive certification. If less than 75% of staff are present, each participant receives individual certification. 

20-Hour Train-the-Trainer Program for CorporateMHC Instructors (Coming in 2023!)

Target Audience: Executives, HR Directors & Professionals, Managers

Mode: Self-Paced Train-the-Trainer program, coupled with Virtual Practice Sessions

Duration: 20-Hour Minimum (Instructors are required to complete LEAD’s 10-Hour Corporate Academy & One of Three 10-Hour Allyship E-Certifications/Year)

In 2023, Enroll in LEAD’s Corporate Academy to become a LEAD-credentialed instructor, empowering yourself to certify employees and staff in 4-hour Corporate Mental Health at your workplace.

LEAD’s Corporate Academy provides instructors-in-training with free and unlimited access to LEAD’s three Allyship e-certifications to ensure CorporateMHC is taught in a culturally-competent, trauma-informed, and inclusive way (30+ Hours of FREE PD).

LEAD’s Allyship E-Certifications include:

1. Tip of the Iceberg: BIPOC Mental Health, Cultural Humility, Anti-Racism, & Allyship

2. Love is Love: LGBTQIA2S+ Mental Health, Inclusion & Allyship

3. Triggered: Trauma-Aware, Sensitive, Responsive & Informed Care

After completing the Corporate Academy, at least one Allyship E-Certification, and one virtual MHC Instructor Practice Session, instructors-in-training receive their CorporateMHC teaching materials, an MHC Instructor Manual, a framed certificate, and free continuing education from LEAD HQ.

8-Hour Adult Mental Health First Aid Certification

​Target Audience: Executives, HR Directors & Professionals, Managers

Mode: In-Person or Blended Learning (2-Hour Self-Paced Pre-Work & Five Hours Live Virtual Training)

Duration: 8 Hours In-Person OR 7 Hours (2-Hours Pre-Work + 5 Hours Live Virtual)

Just as CPR helps you assist an adult having a heart attack, Adult Mental Health First Aid (aMHFA) helps you assist an adult experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. The aMHFA program, designed and accredited by the National Council for Mental Wellness, provides HR professionals and staff with a 5-step ALGEE action-plan to respond to mental health and substance use crisis and non-crisis situations at work and in the general community.

Adult Mental Health First Aid introduces participants to the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health challenges among adults, builds an understanding of the importance of early intervention, and teaches individuals how to help an adult in crisis or experiencing a mental health challenge.

Adult Mental Health First Aid not only offers concrete tools and skills, but also answers key questions like “What can I do?” and “Where can someone find mental health help?” aMHFA uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to assess a mental health crisis; select interventions and provide initial help; and connect adults  to professional, peer, social, and self-help care.

How is it Different than CorporateMHC? Topics related to mental illness and unique to the corporate and workplace environment, community, such as self-medication, absenteeism, presenteeism, and imposter syndrome, are NOT introduced to participants in the 8-hour, aMHFA format, even though workplace role-play scenarios will be used.

Additionally, aMHFA is more focused on empowering workplace leaders to support staff and others in their community, rather than their own mental health at work. If aMHFA is provided for leadership staff, LEAD strongly recommends pairing it with CorporateMHC for all other staff and teams to ensure everyone knows how to set appropriate workplace boundaries, prevent burnout, and avoid developing compassion fatigue over time.  

Participants learn to support a youth developing signs and symptoms of a mental illness or in an emotional crisis by applying a core five-step action plan:

• Assess for risk of suicide or harm

• Listen non-judgmentally

• Give reassurance and information

• Encourage appropriate professional help

• Encourage self-help and other support strategies

Custom Professional Development for Staff

Target Audience: All Members of a Workplace Community (i.e. HR Professionals, Executives, Managers, Board Members, General Employees, & Maintenance Staff)

Mode: In-Person or Virtually via Zoom

Duration: 1-Hour Minimum (60, 75, or 90-Minute Options Available)

LEAD workshops typically involve a combination of both content delivery and “foundation building,” as well as various hands-on, activity-based, and interactive components to meet critical learning objectives.

Custom, virtual workshops empower participants by offering them opportunities to build community with their teams, practice skills, engage in scenarios, and solidify newly-gained knowledge.

For every workshop, LEAD can provide partnering companies and organizations with the following complimentary resources: 

1. Custom workshop flyer -  to advertise the event and boost attendance! Check out flyer example one & flyer example two!

2. Post-workshop resource sheet -  to provide participants with topic-specific resources and learning materials like videos, articles, books & infographics for continued learning. Check out this example!

3. Workshop Recording (Expires after 7 Days) - for staff to watch the workshop recording if they couldn’t attend live. 

For a full list of topics that can be taught by LEAD, check out LEAD’s Workshop Topics Menu. For even more, explore LEAD’s most popular workshops (COMING SOON!), organized into three training categories for your convenience and ease of use:

1. Mental Health & Mental Illness at Work

2. Diversity, Equity, Justice & Belonging DEI(JB), Cultural Competency, and Anti-Racism at Work

3. Trauma Aware, Informed, Sensitive, & Responsive Workplaces

Custom Lesson Plans - Post-Workshop Facilitation Tools

Target Audience:  HR Leaders, Managers, Team Leaders, Program Directors

Mode: Online PDF Lesson Plan Document (with links included); Lesson Plan Facilitation Modes Vary

Duration: 60-Minute Lesson Plan 

LEAD can provide your company’s leadership with custom lesson plans to facilitate ongoing conversation and skill-building for your staff after they have received training from LEAD. Custom lesson plans are created by LEAD’s expert curriculum development team with the goal of empowering corporate and HR leaders to lead internal debriefs to solidify newly learned topics.

Each custom lesson plan features a 60-minute in-person/virtual activity with:  learning objectives, facilitation instructions, “deep dive" and open-ended questions to ask, reflection prompts for staff, key takeaways, and a post-activity evaluation tool.  Check out this LEAD lesson plan example →  

Want even more? Visit LEAD’s Workplace Resource Page for exclusive, FREE access to previously-recorded live mental health and DEI-related webinars, guides, blogs, and tools for HR professionals.

Self-Paced E-Courses & Mid & Post-Session Debriefs

Target Audience: All Members of a Workplace Community (i.e. HR Professionals, Executives, Managers, Board Members, General Employees, & Maintenance Staff)

Mode: Self-Paced E-Course(s), Coupled with Virtual or In-Person Debrief(s)

Duration: Self-Paced E-Course(s) range from 90-minute to 10+ Hours; Session Debriefs Are 60-Minutes

Using LEAD’s Learning Lab, empower your staff with a continued education program, consisting of various online, self-paced professional development courses that maximize learning, reinforce healthy practices, and set the stage for long-term habit formation.

All e-courses are hosted on LEAD’s Self-Paced & Online Learning Lab and are paired with mid-session and/or post-session LEAD-facilitated debrief(s). For your convenience, LEAD’s e-courses and their learning objectives are listed below. All e-courses are provided to participants with lifetime access and are regularly updated to incorporate the latest knowledge, statistics, and trends. 

The following e-courses are available on LEAD’s Learning Lab, categorized by focus area but all with a common thread of mental health and inclusion-based education.

Mental Health & Mental Illness at Work:

• Work Smarter, Not Harder: Self-Care & Stress Management (2+ hours)

• Yikes: Coping with the Anxiety of Uncertainty (2+ hours) 

• Eat (With) Your Feelings: Mindful Meal Prep, Cooking, & Eating (90-minutes)'

• Color Me Calm: Drawing for Mindfulness (90-minutes)

DEI(JB), Cultural Competency, and Anti-Racism at Work:

• Tip of the Iceberg: BIPOC Mental Health, Cultural Humility, Anti-Racism, & Allyship (10+ hours) - featuring bonus modules for HR professionals and leadership

• Love is Love: LGBTQIA2S+ Mental Health, Inclusion & Allyship (10+ hours) - featuring bonus modules for HR professionals and leadership

Trauma Aware, Informed, Sensitive, & Responsive Workplaces:

• Triggered: Trauma-Aware, Sensitive, Responsive & Informed Care (10+ hours) - featuring bonus modules for HR professionals and leadership

Mid & Post-Session Debriefs

LEAD’s 60-minute, mid and post-session Debriefs are provided after staff have completed their assigned e-course during a set period of time. Think of LEAD’s Debriefs as book clubs where a LEAD instructor facilitates a live discussion and reflection on the e-course material with participants.

LEAD debriefs utilize a “flipped classroom” approach that combines both the convenience of asynchronous learning with the engagement and experiential learning that can occur in a live, group Debrief facilitated by a LEAD instructor. 

LEAD can also provide partnering companies and organizations with a  complimentary “Game Plan” (Example to the Right) that serves as a guidebook for participants to complete certain sections of their curriculum over a pre-set period of time. Your company is also given one free progress report per e-course, on a date and time of your choice. This progress report includes a list of registered participants and individual reports that have lecture progress and quiz scores. 

Bonus Workplace Modules:

LEAD's e-courses feature BONUS “Workplace Modules” with strategies and tools tailored to HR and corporate professionals, in addition to School, Camp, and Sports modules.

Why? LEAD uses a human-centered and strengths-based approach when developing curricula. We believe a "one size fits all" is ineffective when providing proactive, practical, and meaningful mental health education to vulnerable communities and the adults who serve them.

Workplace-specific modules enable LEAD to tailor all courses to specific environments and their unique challenges, in addition to providing general tools to individuals on the front lines of their communities. All modules are available and optional for every participant, enabling youth-serving professionals who wear "many hats" to learn from a variety of perspectives at their own pace.

During LEAD-facilitated Debriefs, participants are empowered to:

1. Make space to “debrief” and reflect on LEAD’s e-learning material. 

2. Solidify newly-learned knowledge and skills for participants.

3. Discuss difficult topics with other members of their community, in a safe and respectful environment.

Want even more? Visit LEAD’s Workplace Resource Page for exclusive, FREE access to previously-recorded live mental health and DEI-related webinars, guides, blogs, and tools for HR professionals.

1:1 Coaching Blocks

Target Audience: Leadership Staff, HR and C-Suite Leaders, Department Heads

Mode: In-Person or Virtually via Zoom

Duration: 4 or 8-Hour Coaching Blocks

HR and organizational leaders are empowered with one or more 4 or 8-hour blocks, separated into 30 or 60-minute coaching sessions that individual staff can sign up for.

1:1 Coaching Blocks empower staff with the opportunity to address specific challenges in private and with a mental health clinician or a LEAD industry expert. 1:1 coaching blocks incorporate a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires staff to maximize their personal and professional potential. LEAD’s coaches honor the individual as the expert in their life, use a strength-based approach, and believe every client is creative, resourceful, and whole.

During coaching sessions, individuals will be empowered to identify goals, create strategies to obtain those goals, and boost the overall performance of your organization.

Sustainable, Long-Term Programming

SURVIVE PROGRAM (3 MONTHS) ◈ TRANSFORM PROGRAM (6 MONTHS) ◈ THRIVE PROGRAM (12 MONTHS)

Empower your company or organization with a custom, à la carte 3-month Survive OR 6-month Transform OR 12-month Thrive program.

This long-term programming partnership would be customized to your staff's needs and may include a 1:1 coaching, consulting, certification of staff and/or your organization in Corporate Mental Health, a continued education program for staff, and more.

Want even more? Visit LEAD’s Workplace Resource Page for exclusive, FREE access to previously-recorded live mental health and DEI-related webinars, guides, blogs, and tools for HR professionals.

Consultation with LEAD Industry Experts & Mental Health Clinicians

Target Audience: C-Suite Executives, HR Directors & Professionals, Managers

Mode: Virtually via Zoom

Duration:  Five-Hour Minimum

LEAD can provide 1:1 ongoing and project-based consulting to aid corporate partners with creating polls and evaluation tools to discover the biggest needs, interests, and programming goals of the workplace being served.

LEAD’s specialists will identify problem areas, challenges, and goals, make diagnoses and give recommendations, assist with implementation of recommended solutions, build a consensus and commitment around corrective action, and facilitate client learning—that is, teaching clients how to resolve similar problems in the future.

Examples of Ongoing Consulting include empowering companies or organizations to:

1. Maximize their current internal mental health and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) training efforts.

2. Establish leadership buy-in for mental health and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) training efforts to support company-wide culture shifts.

3. Strategize the build-out of meaningful mental health and burnout prevention programming for the next fiscal year.

Examples of Project-Based Consulting include empowering companies or organizations to:

1. Create marketing materials to promote training and resources being provided to staff, thus promoting high attendance at all programming provided by LEAD and/or the HR department in the future. 

2. Establish a Mental Health and/or DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Committee and help it to diversify Company Name’s client recruiting strategies, update internal policies and hiring protocols to be more equitable, and promote the mental health and wellbeing of staff.

3. Develop Employee Resource Groups and help Company Name support staff by providing a safe space where staff can bring their whole selves to the table and foster workplace success.

LEAD, Inc. has an experienced Board with clinical and corporate wellness and diversity, equity and inclusion experts, ensuring all training curricula are evidence-based, effective, safe, and tailored to the individuals being educated.

For more information about LEAD, watch our animated founding story and explore our team of staff and instructors. Moreover, read LEAD’s Statement of Inclusion and learn how we do the work because modeling self-care and an unfaltering commitment to DEI matter!

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