Measurement and evaluation play a critical role in any workforce mental health program. Whether identifying worker needs, setting priorities, developing resources and initiatives, or demonstrating outcomes, a data-driven approach helps to ensure that organizations are investing wisely in the program elements that will most effectively advance well-being and performance.
While many employers have made mental health a priority in recent years, most do not currently know whether their actions are producing the desired outcomes. Many organizations struggle to collect good data and, when they do, they often fail to share their findings with key stakeholders, including workers, managers, and governance bodies. Without systematic and ongoing processes for measuring, monitoring, and reporting in place, organizations are at risk for expending significant resources based on faulty assumptions and without knowing the impact of their efforts.
This session is designed to help participants improve the ways they measure their workforce mental health programs and use the data to meet employee and organizational needs. The speakers will present a framework for evaluating organizational mental health practices and benchmark data from the Mental Health at Work Index, share case examples from organizations that are using data to inform their strategies and initiatives, and discuss how to apply the lessons learned in their own work so that participants will be better positioned to take the guesswork out of their mental health programs and put actions in place that get results.
Learning Objectives
After completing this session, participants will be able to:
1. List structure, process, and outcomes measures that are important to evaluate in a workforce mental health program.
2. Describe how a baseline assessment of workforce mental health can inform program strategy.
3. Discuss how to apply lessons learned from benchmark companies to their own workforce mental health efforts. 1 ADV CECH Available