Betsy Nabel, CEO of Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital, has pledged to reduce mental health stigma in the workplace, according to a Boston Business Journal report.
That makes Brigham and Women's the biggest employer to sign the CEOs Against Stigma pledge.
The organization, with 18,000 employees, joins the 35 other businesses and thousands of employees participating in the program.
As part of the pledge, employers must have an employment assistance program, which helps employees deal with mental health and addiction problems, according to the report.
The campaign aims to bring awareness to these programs as well as general awareness about mental health stigma through a training program called "In Our Own Voice," the report notes.
Overall, the goal of the two-year initiative, which was started in June 2014 by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts, is to have 250 Massachusetts CEOs sign the pledge.
The initiative was sponsored by a $260,000 grant from the Massachusetts Attorney General. Approximately 25 CEOs had agreed to sign the pledge as of June, with another 10 signing on since, according to the report. Marc Kerouac, president and CEO of Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health, also recently signed the pledge.
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