Mental Health

In February, a LinkedIn post caught my eye: the 5th Annual Construction Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference in Portland, Oregon.

According to researchers, one of every five people on your team is neurodistinct—someone whose brain processes the world differently.

Explore the transition from crisis response to culture change, with backed strategies, tools and real-world examples.

An AWCI member since 2014, Plexxis is a custom software firm that was founded in 1999 in Toronto. The company is intentional about addressing mental health and well-being preventively for all 92 associates.

Despite outward appearances, we can never fully know the internal battles others are fighting.

Four years ago, I wrote about suicide in construction (AWCI’s Construction Dimensions, April 2020, page 17). I focused then on a lack of empathy as a potential suicide contributor.