Hamilton Grace & Associates - Balancing the Odds for Organizational Health and Employee WellnessMaureen Grace provides workshops for organizations on Workplace Mental Health, most specifically, "Managing Mental Health in the Workplace" for managers, supervisors and leaders and "Psychological Safety in the Workplace: The New Standard", aimed at Workplace Health and Safety Committees. She has experience in Intensive Care, Cardiac Rehab, Workplace Wellness, is trained as a Mental Health Works trainer with the Canadian Mental Health Association, and is the principal of Hamilton Grace and Associates. Maureen was manager of the Cardiac Rehab program at the Kinsmen Reh-Fit Centre, head nurse and educator of the medical program at Concordia Hospital, and wellness nurse at Great West Life. She worked as a health consultant with NavCanada coordinating and peer training air traffic controllers in the Critical Incident Stress Management and Chemical Dependency Education and Rehab programs as well as ongoing health promotion activities. Maureen's last position was Occupational Health Specialist with the Manitoba Federation of Labour Occupational Health Centre where she worked with Health & Safety committees to improve and maintain safety in Manitoba workplaces. She delivers sessions to managers, unions, Health and Safety Committees, Human Resources, and Occupational Health Nurses in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. She has developed "Mental Health in the Workplace" workshops based on Guarding Minds at Work and "Workplace Strategies for Mental Health". Maureen has spoken at several conferences in Manitoba and across Canada and has developed and delivered workshops on topics such as Mental Health in the Workplace, Psychological Safety in the Workplace, Stress and Mental Health, Physical Activity, Wellness, Heart Disease Risk Factors, and Shiftwork and Sleep. She works with Manitoba Blue Cross developing and delivering wellness presentations to their clients and co-authored Stress Management with an Attitude which is a book focused on personal and workplace stress. Maureen and her husband volunteer building houses with Habitat for Humanity in Winnipeg and with the Good News Project in St Lucia. They, also, volunteer with SAGA Humane Society in Belize. |