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• Mentally Healthy Workplaces platform now live

  We are delighted to share with you that the Mentally Healthy Workplaces digital platform is now live at: https://beta.mentallyhealthyworkplaces.gov.au/

  During this Beta phase, we will be fine-tuning the platform's content, navigation, functionality and layout based on feedback we receive from users. You can read more on the beta testing here.

  The platform includes modules on a range of topics associated with the three pillars of the Blueprint for Mentally Healthy Workplaces. More modules will be published in coming weeks after they have been through our review process.

  We encourage you to visit the platform, engage with all its features, and please provide your feedback to help shape its development.

  We also suggest you forward this email to your contacts and in your networks and help spread the word about the Mentally Healthy Workplaces digital platform.

• New release: Small Business Guides to Mentally Healthy Workplaces

  We are delighted to release the Small Business Guides to Mentally Healthy Workplaces, developed by Ahead for Business, Everymind as part of the National Workplace Initiative.

  Over the past few years, small business has been doing it tough, often due to issues beyond their control, such as COVID-19.

  The Mentally Healthy Small Business Guides provide information about key topics, clear examples, helpful tips and links to further support and guidance.  

  The guides are built around the three core pillars of the Blueprint for Mentally Healthy Workplaces for creating environments that protect, respond, and promote to support mental health.  

  • The Protect guide helps small business to identify and manage work-related risks to mental health.  
  • The Respond guide helps small business to identify and respond to support people experiencing mental ill-health or distress.  
  • The Promote guide helps small business to recognise and enhance the positive aspects of work that contribute to good mental health. 

  Access the guides here

• Released: Our Quality Assurance Framework

  We are delighted to release the Quality Assurance Framework for quality assuring third-party content within the Mentally Healthy Workplaces digital platform.

  Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on our draft Quality Assurance Framework, which we developed to ensure the content you read in the Mentally Healthy Workplaces platform is current, relevant and supported by evidence.

  The Quality Assurance Framework has been created in collaboration and consultation with representatives of businesses, unions, academics, regulators, service providers and people with lived experience of mental ill-health.

  The Quality Assurance Framework is applied to each resource submitted to the platform.

• What you told us about: our guide for creating resources

  Many of you shared positive feedback to the recent release of our new guide Creating Resources to Support Mentally Healthy Workplaces.

  You told us the guide is helpful in outlining what to include in different resources and how best to present them.

  The guide was designed to support people commissioning or producing new resources or communications around building mentally healthy workplaces.

  It shares general principles for creating effective resources and outlines the essential elements for different types of resources that have been identified as key for supporting mentally healthy workplaces, such as case studies and awareness campaigns.

• What you told us about: our Quality Assurance Framework

  Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on our draft Quality Assurance Framework.

  The Quality Assurance Framework outlines a process for assessing third-party content submitted to our digital platform.

  Overall, we heard many positives about the proposed framework, including that it was a comprehensive approach to quality assurance. Some of the areas for improvement included:

  • Providing more detail on the proposed process such as the expected timeframe for receiving an outcome of a submission.
  • Considering cultural appropriateness in the quality assurance criteria.
  • How issues such as accuracy of submissions and conflict resolution are handled.

  We are working to improve the Quality Assurance Framework based on this feedback and look forward to sharing the final version soon.

• What you told us about: Blueprint Release 1

  Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on Release 1 of the Blueprint for Mentally Healthy Workplaces.

  We heard positive feedback on the Blueprint including:

  • Presenting complex ideas related to mental health and wellbeing in a format that was approachable and easy to understand.  
  • Using graphic design and illustration as a powerful tool for engaging readers and communicating complex concepts.  
  • Adopting a focus that extended beyond the traditional “mental illness lens” to consider the broader nature of mentally healthy workplaces. 

  We also heard some areas for improvement including:

  • The difference between legislated requirements and aspirational aspects of mentally healthy workplaces could be more clearly differentiated. 
  • Orient organisations to start with their legislated requirements first rather than necessarily suggesting the three pillars are of equal importance or relevance. 
  • Go further in capturing the complex systems-level approach to creating mentally healthy workplaces – representing the layers of factors that shape workplaces (e.g. policy, funding, legislation, industry-level groups). 

  See Release 2 of the Blueprint

• What you told us about: Theory of Change and Evaluation models

  Thank you to those who provided feedback on our draft Theory of Change and Evaluation models.  

  We recognise that evaluating initiatives to support mentally healthy workplaces can be complex.

  Our models may provide a framework for designing and evaluating a range of other initiatives to support mentally healthy workplaces.

  Our engagement survey has now closed but any further comments can be sent directly to the team as we compile your feedback.

  We look forward to share a summary of your feedback in the coming months.

• What you told us about: The Blueprint for Mentally Healthy Workplaces

  Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on release 1 of the Blueprint for Mentally Healthy Workplaces.

  It has been great to hear your feedback on the shared vision for a national approach to creating mentally healthy workplaces, and where the Blueprint can be improved in the next release.

  Our engagement survey has now closed but any further comments can be sent directly to the team as we compile your feedback.

  We look forward to share a summary of your feedback in the coming months.

• What you told us about: Measurement and reporting

  We continue to hear the importance of measuring and reporting efforts around mentally healthy work. Measurement often feeds into making the case for action on mentally healthy work, and informs continual improvement. Many organisations are seeking guidance on what to measure, and how best to do it.

  Your feedback is informing our current development of guides to help organisations with measurement and reporting.