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Wellbeing
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Sonali Varma, an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare graduate passionate about mental health, shares her experience in the APS and her journey to a Rhodes Scholarship.
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Compassion. Connection. Understanding: Building a suicide prevention culture in the APS.
Courses
By undertaking this course you will learn what Work Health and Safety (WHS) is, why it is so important, key WHS principles and your responsibilities.
Access practitioner tools, practical guidance, resources and capability programs to align agency practices with the APS Mental Health Capability Framework.
Compassionate Foundations is designed to support you to build your interpersonal and self-care skills to foster positive human-to-human interactions that promote connection and understanding.
Connections is a key step in your workplace peer support journey, providing you with foundational knowledge and skills for the role.
Many Cultures, One APS is a video storytelling project sharing the real-life experiences of APS culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) staff and is designed to inform, inspire, spark curiosity and encourage empathy.
This learning experience supports APS 6 to Senior Executive Service (SES) leaders to champion cultural diversity and inclusion in their teams and organisations.
Programs
Multicultural Organisation – Staff Awareness, Innovation and Capability (MOSAIC) magazine aims to enhance cultural awareness and promote inclusive practices and behaviours across the APS.
Resources
A conceptual framework for incorporating consideration of wellbeing in policy advice.
Services Australia’s Financial Information Service can help individuals to make informed decisions regarding finances.
The MoneySmart webpage was created by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to provide free tools, tips and guidance to assist you to manage your finances.
The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) provides advice, resources and tools to help customers to understand their super funds and manage them better.
Provided by the Department of Health and Aged Care, Head to Health contains a variety of digital mental health resources that can assist to improve employee wellbeing. These resources include online programs, mobile device applications (Apps), online forums and phone services and a range of digital information sources.
Beyond Blue is a not-for-profit mental health organisation that provides support for mental health illnesses such as depression, suicide and anxiety disorders.
The Black Dog Institute is an Australian research institute focused on investigating mental health issues across the lifespan. Research findings have been translated into evidence-based tools and mobile device applications (Apps).
Information on the four principles of WCAG, including tips on how to design web content to ensure that it is perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.
The Department of Health and Aged Care provides guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for all ages.
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) provides guidance useful for supporting employees who have physical health concerns impacting their work.
The Vision Australia Accessibility Toolkit provides information to help you understand accessibility requirements and provides a range of resources to support you to create accessible and inclusive information, particularly for blindness and low vision.
Six different posters on the dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility in the areas of: low vision, deaf or hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.
Heads Up is a workplace mental health literacy resource developed by Beyond Blue. The website has information that is useful for supporting employees to look after their own mental health and support their colleague.
Provides APS agencies with a practical, scalable model to respond to psychosocial hazards in their agency. ADDRESS supports agencies to utilise their existing data and incorporates resources and tools that enable assessment and intervention of risks at both an organisational level and a team or branch level.
Psychosocial hazards are aspects of work which have the potential to cause psychological or physical harm. The Comcare website has information and resources about identifying and managing these hazards.
Family and domestic violence constitutes any behaviour that is violent, threatening, controlling or intended to make you or your family feel scared and unsafe. Explore the resources and information on where to get help.
Comcare is the national authority for work health and safety, and workers’ compensation. Their purpose is to promote and enable safe and healthy work.
Accessibility is a mandatory standard for government agencies. Understand agency responsibilities and commitments and access guidance on designing accessible and inclusive content that is respectful of our diverse nation.
For Learning & Development Teams and Practitioners
Accessibility is a mandatory standard for government agencies. Understand agency responsibilities and commitments and access guidance on designing accessible and inclusive content that is respectful of our diverse nation.
Information on the four principles of WCAG, including tips on how to design web content to ensure that it is perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.
Six different posters on the dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility in the areas of: low vision, deaf or hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.
The Vision Australia Accessibility Toolkit provides information to help you understand accessibility requirements and provides a range of resources to support you to create accessible and inclusive information, particularly for blindness and low vision.