The Governement officially launches it's Mental Health strategy through a number of publications. Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has more information and the 'New Horizons' document can be downloaded in full.
HUBB has spent the past 12 months promoting the Mental Health First Aid and is pleased to see that Job Centres will be allocating specialised people to work with individuals dealing with mental ill health. The BBC has an interesting article on this subject.
Hopefully this news will galvanise an awareness of how important maintaining positive mental health is. Having a Mental Health First Aider in every workplace, as we have a physical First Aider, will go a long way to helping prevent mental ill health, especially depression and anxiety created by stress. Having a person, or persons, with some knowledge to help point people having difficulties in the direction of both self-help and professional help can make a big difference to preventing long term difficulties. This is not only of great value to the individuals concerned but also makes very sound business sense. Enabling people to maintain working will also reduce the pressure and stress of those having to do extra work when an individual is off.
Perhaps a good question to ask in any organisation is 'Do I want my son/daughter to come and work here?' If the answer is 'No!' then the next questions to be asked should be around working out why, and putting strategies in place to turn the answer to a resounding 'YES!'Contact HUBB for more information on Mental Health First Aid.
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