about musterpoint
MusterPoint is a national, worker-driven initiative focused on mental health, substance use recovery, and peer support in the skilled trades and industrial sectors.
We exist because too many workers are struggling in silence. Across construction, energy, mining, forestry, transportation, agriculture, and related fields, people face real challenges—stress, isolation, addiction, grief, and mental health struggles—often while working in cultures that value toughness and self-reliance. Asking for help can feel risky, uncomfortable, or simply not an option.
MusterPoint was created to change that.
At the heart of our work is peer support—workers with lived experience supporting other workers. We believe that connection, understanding, and trust are built most effectively when support comes from people who know the work, the culture, and the pressures firsthand.
Built by Workers,
for Workers
MusterPoint operates independently of employers, with confidentiality and worker trust as non-negotiable principles. Our programs are trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and shaped by the voices of workers with lived experience.
We are currently under construction and building toward a national launch. As we grow, our goal is simple: to ensure that no worker has to face mental health or recovery challenges alone—and that support is always accessible, human, and real.
the musterpoint app
The MusterPoint app is the backbone of our program. It connects workers to trained peer supporters and to a growing network of recovery, mental health, and life-support services across Canada.
Workers can download the app and access peer support for free, confidentially, and independently of their employer. The app functions as a directory and dispatch tool, helping peer supporters respond quickly and appropriately—while keeping personal conversations off the app itself.
For participating employers, the app also enables proactive support, allowing trained staff to request peer check-ins for workers experiencing significant life or work-related events, such as injuries, layoffs, relationship breakdowns, or other stressful circumstances. This shifts support upstream—before challenges escalate into crisis.
Over time, the app will also host self-paced micro-learning, group-based supports, and connections to trusted service providers, all delivered in grounded, familiar language that workers can see themselves reflected in..
Project Partners
Canadian Men’s Health Foundation
70% of men’s health issues are preventable
The Canadian Men’s Health Foundation is a national, registered charity providing information, tools, and motivation to inspire men and their families to live healthier.
ICBA
ICBA was founded in 1975 by 169 open shop contractors who were shut out of bidding on public projects – not because of the quality of their work, but because they weren’t part of a building trade union.
They met at the Terra Nova Motor Inn in Trail, B.C., and launched a movement rooted in one simple belief: every contractor and every worker deserves a fair shot. No special deals. No closed doors. Just open competition and equal opportunity.
Since then, we’ve grown into Canada’s largest construction association. We’ve helped thousands of companies grow their businesses. We’ve stood up against closed-shop policies like the B.C. NDP Government’s so-called “Community Benefits Agreements.” And we’ve invested in the next generation by becoming the province’s #1 sponsor of trades apprentices.
Building B.C.'s Open Shop Construction Sector.
We believe in supporting mental health, removing barriers to training through bursaries and scholarships, and the next generation of tradespeople. Together, we are building stronger futures.
ICBA Foundation
They build our homes, our roads, our hospitals, our schools, our shops, our communities.
But Canada is struggling with a historic labour shortage and mental health challenges, and construction is one of the hardest-hit industries.
An aging workforce, lack of training spaces, and a long-standing societal bias against trades work must be overcome. The ICBA Foundation is dedicated to opening doors to the opportunities offered by a career in the trades. The ICBA Foundation helps trades apprentices get their Red Seal designation and supports mental wellness in construction. It builds on ICBA’s half-century of work with the trades, ICBA's position as the single largest sponsor of trades apprentices in British Columbia, and ICBA’s award-winning mental wellness program.
OTCTT Podcast
Off the Clock Toolbox Talk is a worker-led podcast sharing candid, real-world stories from the skilled trades about mental health, addiction, recovery, and resilience. Now entering its fifth season, the podcast has built a trusted audience and a respected voice by creating space for tradespeople to speak openly, honestly, and without judgment about their lived experience. MusterPoint Canada is proud to be the new home of the podcast and to build on its strong foundation of authenticity and industry trust.
Storytelling
Luminate Wellness is a Canadian organization specializing in peer support training and trauma-informed practice. Led by Jenn Cusick, Luminate Wellness is designing the foundational 40-hour MusterPoint Peer Support Training program, custom-built for workers in the skilled trades. This partnership ensures that MusterPoint Canada’s peer supporters are well-trained, well-supported, and prepared to offer safe, ethical, and effective peer support grounded in lived experience.
The Peer Support ExpertsLuminate Wellness
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