Thrive in your Workplace for Non-Governmental Employers
Thrive in your Workplace for Non-Governmental Employers
This program is implemented by the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health
Thrive in your Workplace helps local employers to bring mental health support to the workplace, fostering employee mental health and access to mental health care. Using an evidence-driven assessment and toolkit, Thrive in your Workplace consults to shape and customize a workplace mental health strategy that takes both employee wellbeing and organizational priorities into account, and provides technical assistance to implement workplace mental health programs and policies.
133
employers have been engaged between 7/1/2019 and 9/30/2020
7%-16%
of employees across all industries are estimated to experience depression. Employees in industries that require frequent or complex interactions with clients or the public and those with high stress and low physical activity have the highest rates of clinical depression. Source. In August 2019, over four million New Yorkers worked in industries involving service provision. Source
Experiencing major depression has a significant impact on workers’ productivity. Source. Receiving treatment can help workers continue to contribute in the workplace; however, only 57% and 40% of workers who experience moderate or severe depression, respectively, receive treatment.