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$50 million initiative targets workplace mental health

The new government strategy will be especially welcomed in the arts, where rates of depression and anxiety are considerably higher than in the general population.

12 Apr 2017

Richard Watts

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The Victorian Government has launched a $50 million initiative targeting mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.

Dubbed WorkHealth (and following on from a similar program of the same name, which ran from 2008-2013 and focused on the prevention of type 2 diabetes and heart disease) the new program is intended to empower employers to make workplace mental healthcare a priority.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts