This category is for mental health programs, if you would like to submit your wellbeing program please select category 7A.

This category requires you to describe an innovative mental health program that has resulted in improvements within your organisation. The program can be a one-off event or an ongoing program.

Programs include, for example, addressing mental health issues.

Finalists of this category must demonstrate that their mental health program has had a positive effect on the participants and/or the workplace through changes in workplace behaviour/performance/processes.

For example: Our goal was to reduce the risk of mental health problems in department xyz. In response to complaints of stress, increased absenteeism and poor quality reporting, we surveyed the department’s staff and other stakeholders, we observed the workflow in and out of the department, and we sampled the quality of the reports it produced. We found that a recent change in the external business environment had resulted in other departments placing unsustainable demands on department xyz. In response, we consulted with the relevant staff and other stakeholders and developed a plan to improve workflow, procedures, access to additional staff and intra and inter departmental communication and negotiation skills. We also set up a company-wide system to better recognise external changes and their impact on the organisation. Within one month, staff reported feeling less stress, absenteeism had reduced to below benchmarks and reporting had improved.

PLEASE NOTE: SOME QUESTIONS HAVE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.