Four Creative Ways Companies Are Showing Up For Mental Health
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Happy Mental Health Action Day! Today, businesses across the globe are taking action to support their teams' mental health in creative, inspiring ways.
Scroll on to learn:
🛒 How a grocery chain is making mental health approachable with wellness exercises and prizes for employees.
🌱 The innovative ways an engineering firm is busting myths and building gratitude through hands-on activities and resources.
🌍 What connection has to do with supporting employees’ mental health.
Plus, details about this year’s Mental Health Action Day theme, a free resource to help plan mental health campaigns in your workplace, and an invitation to an upcoming event focused on supporting employees with HIV.
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2025 THEME
Check In With A.S.K.
This year's Mental Health Action Day theme — "Check In With A.S.K." — offers a way to provide emotional support to the people in our lives.
Start with awareness — noticing someone who needs support. Then, take action by using A.S.K.:
Acknowledge their experiences and feelings
Support by asking what they need
Keep in touch regularly to show you care
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
Companies Take Action for Mental Health Action Day
From supermarkets to engineering firms, businesses across the globe are taking steps today to support employee mental health.
Meteorite, HAA’s parent company, is hosting a virtual social hour to help colleagues connect over shared interests such as outdoor activities, creative hobbies, parenting, and reading. The goal is to help employees find common ground and build stronger working relationships.
Here’s how several organizations in HAA’s network are bringing this year’s “Check In With A.S.K.” theme to life.
Who: A local, family-owned supermarket company in Washington state that offers a wide range of products and services.
Action: Employees can take part in company-led mental health exercises. The company is encouraging participation by holding prize drawings for those who join.
Who: Farm Credit Foundations (FCF) is a shared HR services organization supporting Farm Credit employers nationwide with benefits, payroll, and workforce solutions.
Action: FCF is hosting a virtual team gathering where employees can socialize, build connections, and create a community. Participants are encouraged to wear green in a show of unity.
Who: A full-service civil engineering and surveying firm serving public and private clients across the Central and Southeast U.S.
Action: L.I. Smith is sponsoring a Mental Health Myth Buster lunch-and-learn event, handing out stress balls, anxiety ribbons, and pocket-sized cards with encouraging messages and information about available mental health resources. They're also launching a month-long mental health email campaign and creating interactive bulletin boards where employees can share what makes them smile, what they're grateful for, and what inspires or motivates them.
EVENT INSIGHTS
2025 Workplace Mental Health Action Summit
At our 2025 Workplace Mental Health Action Summit, experts shared how courageous leadership can build more connected, resilient workplaces, especially during turbulent times. Watch the full recording, and see key takeaways below:
💡 Courage is contagious: Reframe courage as a leadership muscle. Model vulnerability, speak openly about challenges, and invite honest dialogue. Courage builds clarity, empathy, and trust across teams.
🧠 Psychological safety fuels innovation: When employees feel safe to take risks and express ideas, they’re more likely to be creative problem-solvers. Make space for questions, feedback, and even failure.
🌱 Resilience can be built: Regular listening sessions and transparent communication help teams thrive under pressure and develop perseverance.
🧭 Lead with purpose: Clarify your organization's "why" and connect it to everyday work. Purpose keeps people grounded in moments of change or uncertainty and supports mental health.
FREE RESOURCE
Mental Health Action Day Employer Guide
Continue the spirit of Mental Health Action Day throughout the year with our Employer Planning Guide. Build upon your mental health offerings using our suite of free plug-and-play tools, including stats to help you make a business case for connection, nine ideas to spark lasting change within your organization, and communication templates to help you spread the word.
LIVE VIRTUAL EVENT
HIV Prevention Starts With You
With government funding under threat, businesses stand at the forefront of ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S.
Learn how companies like Match Group, Mercer, and Walgreens champion HIV testing and access to lifesaving prevention and treatment. You’ll leave with strategies to support your employees and communities.
🗓️ May 21, 2025
⏰ 2–3 p.m. ET
💻 Virtual via Zoom
Follow U.S. Business Action to End HIV to stay up to date with the newest initiatives, stories, and resources for HIV.
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We do so by tapping into our internal subject matter experts and a broad network of business leaders and public health advisers, and by utilizing a wide array of impactful channels — including live in-person and virtual events like this May's Workplace Mental Health Summit, curated communities and coalitions, science-backed tools and resources, multimedia communications, employer insights, market research and more.
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Editorial Note: The Health Action Alliance is solely responsible for the content of this email and maintains full editorial control of its resources.
The Health Action Alliance is a unique collaboration between leading business, communications, and public health organizations to help employers navigate evolving health challenges, improve the health of workers, and engage with public health partners to build stronger, healthier communities. Founded in 2021 by the Ad Council, Business Roundtable, CDC Foundation, the de Beaumont Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, HAA's network now includes more than 10,000 employers nationwide, reaching a quarter of U.S. workers.