The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario Division is a provincial association, supporting 28 branches across Ontario that provide mental health and addictions services in community-based settings. CMHA Ontario is part of a nation-wide organization, which is Canada’s oldest health charity.
We work to improve the lives of all Ontarians through leadership, collaboration, and the continual pursuit of excellence in community-based mental health and addictions services. Our goal is for fewer barriers and simpler access to mental health and addictions services for all Ontarians. We are proud of our dedication to high-quality programs delivered provincially and locally with our branches that are highly accountable and data-driven
Supporting Frontline Health Care Workers Program
The Frontline health care workers’ mental health program is built upon the foundation of Mental Health Works, a national social enterprise of CMHA Ontario. It provides capacity-building workshops on workplace mental health to both employers and employees based on the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. Our trainers will provide practical workplace mental health training to executives, human resources personnel, managers, supervisors, union reps, and both clinical and non-clinical health care workers.
Trainers come from health care backgrounds and are strong, empathic facilitators. All trainers are employed or contracted by CMHA branches across the province and work with their regional CMHA branch to connect health care workers and their organizations to local supports and services as appropriate.
This program will provide health care organizations with mental health training for management and leadership (Stream 1), and for non-clinical/support staff who are able to participate in live, synchronous training (Stream 3). We are seeking a consultant to partner with us to develop and design health care-specific training.
Project Outcomes
Intended outcomes of this project include, but are not limited to, the following:
- E-learning training program with six e-learning modules for teams/units/organizations in the health care sector to work through concurrently but can be completed by a health care worker in their own time.
- The e-learning program will be hosted on a suitable LMS to ensure the capabilities of the program (effective, strengths-based mental health training, sharing/linking organizational and other resources for health care workers, live components such as chat or video sessions, and robust, clean data collection and tracking), including the ability to collect evaluation data and host interactive/live participation
- Clear, impactful learning objectives for user experience
- E-learning modules that are easily/quickly accessible for health care workers
Timeline of RFP Events
CMHA Ontario has established the following approximate timeframes for the RFP process:
- RFP Issue Date Friday November 26, 2021
- RFP Close Date: Sunday December 12, 2021 at 11:59pm (EST)
- Commencement of RFP Evaluation: Monday December 13, 2021
- Commencement of Consultant Interviews: Wednesday December 15, 2021- Friday December 17, 2021
- Commencement of Project: Monday December 20, 2021
- Testing by advisory committee/stakeholder group: February 10, 2022
- Commencement of Phase 1 program delivery: March 7, 2022
- Evaluation of Phase 1 and implementation of changes for Phase 2 of program delivery: April 1, 2022
- Project End: May 1, 2022
Request for Full RFP
To request the full RFP document, please contact Becky Laufer at rlaufer@ontario.cmha.ca. All proposal requirements, project goals and scope, project monitoring and evaluation guidelines, and submission details are included in the full RFP.
