‘How to’ guide for developing mentally healthy workplace resources

The Creating Resources to Support Mentally Healthy Workplaces guide, released by the National Mental Health Commission, aims to support communicators, content or resource developers and those working to support organisations with mentally healthy workplaces.   

The guide provides general principles that support the creation of clear and compelling resources and communications. It also shares practical ideas for how to draw on behaviour change principles to create effective resources and communications.   

There are unique considerations and key elements for creating different types of resources that have been identified as key for supporting mentally healthy workplaces:  

• case studies  
• instructional content  
• awareness campaigns   
• news articles  
• in-depth resources.  

The guide has been developed by the National Workplace Initiative with input from professional communicators, content creators and marketing professionals. It also draws on focus group research conducted with a range of business audiences.