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WorkWell Learning Networks

Supporting employers to improve mental health and wellbeing in the workplace

Bringing workplaces and experts together

Learning Network Chairs bring together groups of employers to build their capacity to create mentally healthy workplaces. They will implement initiatives that influence the work related factors that contribute to stress in the workplace. As a result these networks will contribute to the evidence base on creating and maintaining a mentally healthy workplace.

Learning Networks are linking more than 2000 workplaces to collaborate on practical steps to prevent mental injury.

Bringing workplaces and experts together

The selected Learning Network Chairs are:

Australian Hotels Association (AHA)
Working with Victorian hotels and pubs within their member base, AHA will assist workplaces in building capability to create sustainable mentally healthy workplaces. The Learning Network will target frontline workers, focussing on the work-related factors of poor organisational justice, poor support and workplace relationships and violent or traumatic events.

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Australian Retailers Association (ARA)
The ARA chaired Learning Network aims to inform their membership of the prevalence of mental health risks for workers within the retail industry, and develop innovative strategies, resources, learning materials and discussion forums to educate workplaces on effective prevention strategies to improve outcomes within the industry. The Learning Network will target frontline retail workers and focus on addressing the work-related factors of low job control, high and low job demands, poor support and workplace relationships and violent or traumatic events.

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CommuniCorp Group
Collaborating with Australia Post and other partners, the Learning Network aims to improve and sustain the mental health of frontline staff working in regional and rural Licensee Post Offices and Community Postal Agencies, whilst also supporting Contract Parcel Delivery Drivers. The Network aims to understand the psychosocial risks that may lead to mental injury or compromised mental health for staff within this sector and address these risks using sustainable and outcome driven solutions aimed at long term prevention. These risks include the work-related factors of high and low job demands, remote and isolated work and violent or traumatic events.

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Emergency Services Foundation (ESF)
The Learning Network aims to contribute to sustainable improvements in the mental health of frontline workers in the Victorian emergency services sector. Working with all first responder organisations in Victoria, the Network will address work-related factors affecting mental health and wellbeing through improved sector-wide leadership. With a focus on frontline leaders, the Network aims to build capacity in leaders to competently address mental health and wellbeing barriers within agencies and champion a new way of leading to promote psychologically safe work environments.

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Give Where You Live (GWYL)
With a regional approach in South West Victoria, the Learning Network aims to improve workplace cultures and create inclusive, supportive, safe and mentally healthy working environments for young workers in small-to-medium sized businesses. Together with their local partners, the Network will co-design initiatives that address the work-related factors of low job control, high and low job demands, poor support, low recognition and reward, low role clarity and poor workplace relationships to improve mental wellbeing in young workers.

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Housing Industry Association (HIA)
Focussing on the residential construction industry, HIA will establish a Learning Network to improve workplace cultures amongst its member base, through addressing the root causes of work-related mental injuries within the sector. The Network will build the capacity of participating workplaces to improve the work-related hazards of high and low job demands, low job control, poor workplace relationships and remote or isolated work, and create mentally safe environments for workers.

Vulnerable Populations

The Learning Networks will target the following identified vulnerable population groups:

Young workers

Workers aged between 15-24 years

Ageing workers

Workers aged 45 years and older

Frontline workers

Worker employed in roles that are directly delivering services to the public

Industries in transition

Workers in industries that are experiencing rapid growth or rapid decline

Funding Principles

Prevention focused
We support organisations to take a prevention-led approach to promote positive mental health and wellbeing, and prevent mental injury and illness amongst identified vulnerable Victorian working populations.
Outcome driven
To maximise the value for employers, Learning Networks will be outcome focused, working towards actively creating organisational change within workplaces.
Knowledge creation and dissemination
We promote and encourage the creation of new knowledge and evidence about workplace mental health and wellbeing that can be shared with the working Victorian population.
Collaboration
Workplaces will work collaboratively through the Learning Network using human-centred design to plan, develop, implement and evaluate initiatives in partnership with subject matter experts.
Creating organisational level change
We aim to drive organisation-wide change through Learning Networks that design initiatives to address the root causes of organisational factors contributing to mental injury and mental illness in workplaces.
Sustainability
Outcomes achieved through the Learning Network will have an impact beyond the period of the funding. Sustainability of workplace initiatives implemented through the Learning Network and/or the Network itself is critical.