• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Injured Workers Online

Injured Workers Online

Working Together for Justice

  • Blog
  • Sign Up
  • About
  • Twitter
Working Together for Justice
  • Workers’ Compensation
    • History
    • Law Reform
    • Workers’ compensation bills
    • Chronic Pain Victory
    • Research and Education
    • Bancroft Institute
    • Meredith Conference: “No-Half Measures”
    • RAACWI
  • Issues
    • Appeals
    • Benefits
    • Experience Rating
    • Funding
    • Mental Health
    • Poverty
    • Return to Work
    • Stigma and surveillance
    • Universal Coverage
  • Community
    • Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG)
    • Workers’ Comp Is a Right campaign
    • Injured Worker Groups
    • IW Speakers School
    • Injured Workers’ Stories
    • Organizing and Action
    • Arts & social justice
  • Events
    • Calendar View
    • RSI Awareness Day
    • Day of Mourning
    • Justice Bike Ride
    • Injured Workers Day
    • December demo
    • Labour Day – a workers’ festival
  • Media
    • In the News
    • Press Releases
    • Fact Sheets
    • Headlines on workers’ compensation
    • Videos
  • Resources
    • Law and Policy Submissions
    • Reports, Articles & Papers
    • Practical guides & booklets
    • IWHP Bulletins
    • Library
    • Find Legal Help
    • Links
Home / Blog / Education / Bancroft Spring session – mental health and the injured worker

Bancroft Spring session – mental health and the injured worker

April 22, 2016

Each year approximately 31,000 Canadian workers are recognized as sustaining a permanent impairment as a result of a workplace injury – 15,000 in Ontario alone, according to WSIB data. The upcoming session in the Bancroft Institute’s Policy & Research Discussion series will focus on a critical issue for many injured workers with permanent disability – mental health and coping. flyer for Bancroft May 2016 discussion

Keynote speaker is Fergal O’Hagan, associate professor in the Dept. of Psychology at Trent University, whose work is dedicated to finding ways to help people adapt and heal so they can get back to work. A participant in the Research and Action on the Consequences of Work Injury (RAACWI) project, Dr O’Hagan was lead author of the major 2012 study “Mental Health Status of Ontario Injured Workers with Permanent Impairment”  (Canadian journal of public health v.103(4): 303-308) which found injured workers following a work injury to be at greater risk of depression, sleep problems and medication abuse than the general population.

The session will address implications for return to work, income recovery, access to health services and rehabilitation inside and outside the workers’ compensation system. The agenda also includes injured workers’ presentations, panel response and general discussion.

When: Tuesday, May 17 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Where: Friend’s House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto M5R 1C7 on Tuesday

RSVP appreciated: BancroftInstitute@gmail.com The event is free, with a suggested donation of $10 for waged attendees. Tokens are available for the unwaged. Please make this a scent-free event. 

  • Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers’ Compensation and Work Injury is a collaborative of injured workers, advocates and academics. Its goals are to address the needs and concerns of injured workers in Ontario and across Canada through community-engaged research activities; to promote education and research on workers’ compensation and injured worker experiences; and to inform legislation, policies, programs and practices.

 

Filed Under: Education, Mental Health, Research

Primary Sidebar

Latest Tweets

Injuredworkersonline Follow

IWO_org
Injuredworkersonline @iwo_org ·
15 Mar

Then & Now: Technology and the changing hazards in mining https://www.thesafetymag.com/ca/topics/technology/then-now-technology-and-the-changing-hazards-in-mining/439237#.ZBH4wPPGS2M.twitter

Reply on Twitter 1636048781316882432 Retweet on Twitter 1636048781316882432 Like on Twitter 1636048781316882432 1 Twitter 1636048781316882432
Injuredworkersonline @iwo_org ·
15 Mar

Bill C-224 Cancer legislation reaches important milestone in Canadian Parliament https://www.iaff.org/news/cancer-legislation-reaches-important-milestone-in-canadian-parliament/

Reply on Twitter 1636048154285215745 Retweet on Twitter 1636048154285215745 Like on Twitter 1636048154285215745 1 Twitter 1636048154285215745
Injuredworkersonline @iwo_org ·
15 Mar

Ontario roofing company fined after man not wearing fall protection killed in fall while working on a school portable - OHS Canada MagazineOHS Canada Magazine https://www.ohscanada.com/ontario-roofing-company-fined-110k-after-man-killed-in-fall-while-working-on-a-school-portable/

Reply on Twitter 1636047273758199809 Retweet on Twitter 1636047273758199809 Like on Twitter 1636047273758199809 3 Twitter 1636047273758199809
Load More...

Footer

Stay connected – get our blog updates
Copyright © 2023 Injured Workers Online
  • Accessibility
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy

The information in this website is for educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for legal advice. For legal advice, see Find legal help