The Free package aims to help Kiwis overcome mental stress
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Wellington, May 8, 2021
The Mental Health Foundation has launched a free E-learning package to help people managers and workplace wellbeing professionals talk about mental health in the workplace.
Titled ‘Open Minds,’ the E-learning package focuses on how to include, support and prevent discrimination towards New Zealanders with mental distress or illness in the workplace. Over a third of New Zealanders have experienced mental distress, and of those people, 19% have reported being discriminated against. 50% of mental distress discrimination occurs in the workplace.
The E-learning package builds on the first series of the Mental Health Foundation’s Open Minds resources. It focuses on helping people managers in outdoor and indoor workplaces understand why opening the conversation about mental health in the workplace, supporting employees with mental distress through the tough times and creating mentally-healthy workplace cultures hold financial and workplace culture incentives.
Three Learning Modules
The E-learning package consists of three, one-hour, easy-to-follow E-learning modules with downloadable resources and templates. The modules are supported by videos and scenarios from non-office-based settings, and represent a range of experiences including Maori, Pasifika, Rainbow and Gen Z employees and people who have experienced mental distress or illness in the workplace.
You can start the free E-learning package here.
About Like Minds, Like Mine
Like Minds, Like Mine was one of the first national programmes in the world to challenge discrimination and prejudice towards people with mental distress or illness.
It commenced in 1997 with John Kirwan, Denise L-Estrange Corbet and other key New Zealanders showing their support in TV advertisements and has grown to develop notable public awareness campaigns, community projects and research.
The Like Minds, Like Mine programme is funded by the New Zealand Government.
The Health Promotion Agency is the lead operational agency for the programme, with strategic responsibility held by the Ministry of Health.
The Mental Health Foundation has led the Open Minds programme as one of its contracted partners.
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