Welcome to One Step Ahead
Employee mental health is good for business
A Toolkit Based in Evidence
One Step Ahead© is a workplace mental health and suicide prevention toolkit that utilizes evidence-informed strategies to help companies reduce suicide risk while increasing employee mental health and wellness. The toolkit is designed to influence all levels of employees through key program components like education, training, policy, communications, and more.
Purchase ToolkitSAVE ensures workplaces have enhanced knowledge and the ability to:
Train:
employees to identify the warning signs of emotional distress and suicide and assist in getting them help.
Provide:
access to mental health and suicide prevention resources and treatment services.
Strengthen:
employee safety through protective measures like social connectedness, stress management, and other effective life skills.
Manage:
the response to emotional or suicidal crisis in the workplace.
Reduce:
negative stigma associated with mental illness and suicide through education and awareness programming.
Prepare:
and respond responsibly to a suicide loss of an employee (postvention).
How It Works
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Register your employer
Create an account with One Step Ahead.
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Review program modules
Companies review toolkit content at their own pace.
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Implement recommendations
Implement recommendations outlined in each module.
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Receive certificate
SAVE recognizes companies that successfully implement, monitor, and evaluate recommendations implemented.
Create an account with One Step Ahead.
Companies review toolkit content at their own pace.
Implement recommendations outlined in each module.
SAVE recognizes companies that successfully implement, monitor, and evaluate recommendations implemented.
Our Model
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The One Step Ahead Toolkit is based on evidence from SPRC’s Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention and the National Guidelines for Workplace Suicide Prevention. Learn more here.
Cost Savings
Untreated depression costs employers roughly $51 billion in lost productivity and an estimated $26 billion in direct treatment costs. Mental health promotion and access to resources in the workplace saves employers on both direct and indirect costs like use of health benefits and reduced work productivity, respectively.
Employee Well-being
Engaging employees in mental health and suicide prevention programming encourage employees to proactively care for their mental health, seek help sooner, and reduces risk of mental health issues. Employees are more likely to stay with a company longer, be more productive while at work, and openly communicate when there is a problem, thereby creating an opportunity for further upstream prevention.
Industry Leadership
Mental illness and suicide are considerable public health concerns. Position your company as industry leaders at the forefront of progress by demonstrating a supportive and inclusive corporate culture that celebrates diversity, tolerance of different ideas, and an environment where taking care of mental health is openly supported.
Respected Reputation
Implementing mental health and suicide prevention programming signals social responsibility, fostering a positive relationship with the community and attracting quality prospective employees.
Sign Up!
For a small fee, you will receive access to the entire toolkit.
Program Development & Implementation
Work through the toolkit modules to cover prevention, intervention, and postvention concepts. These modules are necessary to begin developing out your mental health and suicide prevention strategy for the workplace.
Evaluation
Implement ongoing measurement of progress and adjust for programmatic improvement.
Policy
Guidance to formally incorporate measures that support mental health and suicide prevention into your company’s policies.
Training
Purchase licenses to access a 1-hr self-guided online training.
Education
Informative videos for all employee levels covering key mental health and suicide prevention topics.
Communication & Awareness
Tools to help communicate with your employees and reduce risk of mental illness and suicide.
Tools and Resources
Access to help-seeking tools and resources for employees to address mental health and suicide.
Crisis Response
Guidance in responsibly responding to a suicide crisis and/or tragedy in the workplace.
External Partnerships
Prevention
Fostering a workplace culture of respect, connectedness, and caring to increase employee satisfaction and productivity.
Intervention
Identifying and connecting at-risk employees with supportive resources to ensure employee safety and reduce productivity loss and cost.
Postvention
Responding responsibly to a suicide tragedy to mitigate further harm on the workforce and assist in restoring workplace functionality.
Outcomes
Cost Savings
Untreated depression costs employers roughly $51 billion in lost productivity and an estimated $26 billion in direct treatment costs. Mental health promotion and access to resources in the workplace saves employers on both direct and indirect costs like use of health benefits and reduced work productivity, respectively.
Employee Well-being
Engaging employees in mental health and suicide prevention programming encourage employees to proactively care for their mental health, seek help sooner, and reduces risk of mental health issues. Employees are more likely to stay with a company longer, be more productive while at work, and openly communicate when there is a problem, thereby creating an opportunity for further upstream prevention.
Industry Leadership
Mental illness and suicide are considerable public health concerns. Position your company as industry leaders at the forefront of progress by demonstrating a supportive and inclusive corporate culture that celebrates diversity, tolerance of different ideas, and an environment where taking care of mental health is openly supported.
Respected Reputation
Implementing mental health and suicide prevention programming signals social responsibility, fostering a positive relationship with the community and attracting quality prospective employees.
Process
Sign Up!
For a small fee, you will receive access to the entire toolkit.
Program Development & Implementation
Work through the toolkit modules to cover prevention, intervention, and postvention concepts. These modules are necessary to begin developing out your mental health and suicide prevention strategy for the workplace.
Evaluation
Implement ongoing measurement of progress and adjust for programmatic improvement.
Program Components
Policy
Guidance to formally incorporate measures that support mental health and suicide prevention into your company’s policies.
Training
Purchase licenses to access a 1-hr self-guided online training.
Education
Informative videos for all employee levels covering key mental health and suicide prevention topics.
Communication & Awareness
Tools to help communicate with your employees and reduce risk of mental illness and suicide.
Tools and Resources
Access to help-seeking tools and resources for employees to address mental health and suicide.
Crisis Response
Guidance in responsibly responding to a suicide crisis and/or tragedy in the workplace.
External Partnerships
Program Framework
Prevention
Fostering a workplace culture of respect, connectedness, and caring to increase employee satisfaction and productivity.
Intervention
Identifying and connecting at-risk employees with supportive resources to ensure employee safety and reduce productivity loss and cost.
Postvention
Responding responsibly to a suicide tragedy to mitigate further harm on the workforce and assist in restoring workplace functionality.
The One Step Ahead Toolkit is based on evidence from SPRC’s Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention and the National Guidelines for Workplace Suicide Prevention. Learn more here.
One Step Ahead is Important for Business — Here’s Why
20%
of the American workforce experiences a mental illness at some point during their working life– depression and substance abuse are the most common.
About
$1.3 million
is lost in productivity (97%) and medical costs (3%) for each suicide.
Every
15 minutes
1 person dies by suicide. Every 26 seconds, there is one suicide attempt. Untreated depression and substance abuse increases risk for suicide.
Depression affects the workplace in two ways:
- Presenteeism: Being at work, but not engaged/productive
- Absenteeism: Days away from work
Researchers have found that absence, disability, and lost productivity from depression cost employers more than four times the cost of employee medical treatment.