{"id":769023,"date":"2026-06-29T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769023\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:46:13","slug":"nape-president-calls-on-employers-to-boost-mental-health-supports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769023\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPE President Calls on Employers to Boost Mental Health Supports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jerry-earle-nape-president.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"NAPE President Calls on Employers to Boost Mental Health Supports\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The President of NAPE says employers need to do more to provide mental health support for its employees.<\/p>\n<p>The union held a panel on mental health earlier this week with representatives from the Canadian Mental Health Association and local advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Earle says that while some employers have started offering support, there\u2019s still a ways to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployees need to know that, when we talk about supports, they have the support of their employer. If they need help, they know they can count on their employer to have supports in place, not only for them, but for their families as well,\u201d he told VOCM News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we have a mental health injury or an adverse effect from a mental health injury, families are impacted, co-workers are impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The President of NAPE says employers need to do more to provide mental health support for its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,269876,393,394,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-769023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}