8:00 AM Doors open: Breakfast and Registration

8:30-4:30 PM Preconference Workshop: Construction Working Minds Train-the-Trainer Certification Course, PPA Event Center (Sally Spencer-Thomas)

5:30-7:30 PM Cactus Reception “10th Anniversary of Man Therapy”

7:30-8:15 AM: Registration, Exhibits and Breakfast

8:15-9:00 AM: Welcome & Opening Keynote

Opening Remarks & Housekeeping – Sally Spencer-Thomas, Psy.D., United Suicide Survivors International

Cal Beyer, Vice President; Workforce Risk & Worker Wellbeing at Holmes Murphy & Associates "Catalyzing and Unleashing a Movement"

Learning Objectives: Cal will trace the history of the construction industry mental health promotion and suicide prevention movement — both major progress and milestones as well as unfinished business and future priorities. The keynote will focus on pivotal lessons learn like how the industry can learn how to succeed at:

1. Launching a media saturation campaign

2. Gaining association penetration

3. Enrolling labor union participation

4. Building an army of helpers and champions

9:00-9:45 AM: International Keynote

Jorgen Gullestrup, Founder, MATES in Construction & Chief Executive Officer for Mental Health Lived Experience Peak Queensland

Starting as a plumbing apprentice at the age of 15 Jorgen felt his world was made. It was his dream job and career. However, when he developed a mental illness a few years later it became much more of a fight for survival. This presentation describes the journey from a young plumbing apprentice to being part of starting a suicide prevention program called MATES in Construction. The presentation will discuss the power of allowing people with lived experience to lead in all parts of the development of suicide prevention programs. It will discuss the evidence for MATES and how the program motivates workers. 

9:45-10:00 AM: BREAK

10:00-10:45 AM: Panel: Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention (CIASP): Building Infrastructure

Jerry Ouimet, CEO Ames Construction, Chairman (CIASP), Jamie Becker, Director, Health Promotion, Laborers' Health & Safety Fund of North America, Randy Thompson, VP Business Development, Livingworks Inc. & Member Trustee, (CIASP), Chun Yee Yip, Lendlease Foundation

10:45-11:45 AM: Panel Case Studies: Lessons Learned from Early Adopters:

10:45-11:15 AM: Peer Support Implementation

Chris Carlough, Director of Education, International Association of Sheet Metal, Air Rail and Transportation (SMART) Workers, Michael Hazard, Veterans in Pipefitting (UA), Member Assistance Program, Janisha Johnson, Superintendent Hensel Phelps

11:15-11:45 AM: Executive Perspectives Panel

Jon Kinning, COO & EVP, RK Industries, Jerry Shupe, Corporate Director of Safety and Health at Hensel Phelps, Brandon Bryant, President and General Contractor for Red Tree Builders, Inc., Denise Burgess, CEO Burgess Construction

11:45 AM-12:30 PM: Lunch and Exhibits

12:30-1:10 PM: Roundtable Discussion #1: Rearview Mirror

- What are we learning about root causes for construction distress, mental health conditions, and suicidal despair?
- What are different groups doing to prevent these problems? What have we learned? What is working? What is needed?
- Where are the stories of success and struggle? What data have we captured on need or impact? What are the gaps we need to fill?

1:10-1:15 PM: BREAK

1:15-2:10 PM: Breakout Sessions (3 Concurrent)

-Training: “Construction Working Minds” – Lessons Learned from Implementing a Brief Construction-Specific Suicide Prevention Training
Matt Mishkind, Ph.D. & Alex Yannacone of the Johnson Depression Center

-Peer Support in Construction
Eduardo Vega, M.Psy., Palliance Institute of Humannovations, Ben Cort, Speaker and Consultant, Justin Bradshaw, Organizer Local 49, SMART Union

-Raising Awareness and Fighting “Stigma”: Effective Communication Strategies
Sally Spencer-Thomas, Psy.D., United Suicide Survivors International

2:10-2:15 PM: BREAK

2:15-3:10 PM: Breakout Sessions (3 Concurrent)

-Construction-Specific Mental Health & Well-Being Care
Dan Carlin, MD, JobSiteCare, Rich Jones, Heritage CARES, Brand Newland, Goldfinch Health

-Digital Health and Construction: Man Therapy – When it comes to suicide prevention, the best defense is a good offense
Joe Conrad & Nathaan Demers, Grit Digital Health & Cactus

-Responding to Mental Health Emergencies at Work
Sarah Gaer, United Suicide Survivors International, Lisa Desai, Mindwise, Sally Spencer-Thomas, Psy.D., United Suicide Survivors International

3:10-3:15 PM: BREAK

3:15-3:50 PM: Roundtable Discussion #2: Five Year Vision and 2022 Punch List
- What gaps do we need to fill in 2022-2027?
- How do we evaluate effectiveness? Make a business case? Get funding to support these efforts?
-How do we expand the work to trade partners? Associated industries like architecture and engineering?
-How do we enroll other strategic partners?

3:50-3:55 PM: BREAK

3:55-5:00 PM: Closing
-Recognition and Awards
-Closing Keynote: Brent Darnell "Primal Safety"

Learning Objectives:

• Explore how traditional, hypermasculine command and control and hierarchy negatively affects safety and mental health.

• Explore new ways of approaching safety and mental health using human connection and emotional intelligence and review some case studies.

• Review specific tools (approaches, toolbox topics) and ways of implementing these concepts in your safety and mental health programs.

  
  -Wrap Up – Sally Spencer-Thomas remarks
  -Group Photo

The “Construction Working Minds Train-the-Trainer Certification Course” will be held as a pre-conference workshop at the Summit on May 17th. The Construction Working Minds Training is the first construction-specific, suicide-specific, brief training offering this opportunity for organizations to build internal capacity to scale impact.

The 8-hour train-the-trainer certification course (capped at 30 participants) certifies participants with the credentials/trainer tools to deliver the 60-to-90-minute Construction Working Minds training at your organization and in the community.

The 60-to-90-minute Working Minds for Construction training gives participants the skills and tools to appreciate the critical need for suicide prevention at the workplace while creating a forum for dialogue and critical thinking about workplace mental health challenges and suicide prevention, and by promoting help-seeking and help-giving. It is designed to be given over a lunch break on a job site and offers awareness building education AND skill practice.

The training is supported by a partnership among the Johnson Depression Center, United Suicide Survivors International and Sally Spencer-Thomas LLC. A recent pilot effort was funded by Lendlease Foundation and additional support has been provided by The Rosendin Foundation and the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention.

More: https://www.coloradodepressioncenter.org/workingminds/