Best practice in mental health and employment
Gaining and sustaining employment is an important goal and a key part of the recovery process for people living with mental health conditions. WISE IDEA (Innovation, Development, Evaluation, Application) specialises in developing, evaluating and delivering programs that reduce barriers to employment for people with complex mental health conditions, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Discover how WISE IDEA can assist you
People with mental health conditions
Mental Health & Employment Assessment
Don’t know if you would benefit from a Mental Health and Employment Assessment?
Key2Work
Want to know how to build your strengths and manage barriers to work or study?
Mental Health & Employment Support
In need of support or assistance to achieve your employment goals?
Employ Your Mind
Wanting to improve your thinking and communication skills for work?
Social Cognition and Interaction Training
Want to improve your interpersonal skills at work?
Support staff
Employ Your Mind -
Train the Coach
Keen to build your or your team’s knowledge, skills and confidence in employment preparation and support? WISE IDEA offer a structured, evidence-based approach that integrates cognitive remediation into a vocational rehabilitation program.
Mental Health and Employment Advice and Support
Keen to provide yourself or your team strategies that best support people with a mental health condition at work?
Customised Education or Training Sessions
Keen to develop you or your team’s knowledge in an area relating to mental health and employment?
Employers
Mental Health and Employment Advice and Support
Want to provide yourself or your staff strategies to support employees with a mental health condition?
Customised Education or Training Sessions
Want to develop your or your staff’s knowledge in a particular area relating to mental health and employment?
Changing lives.
Reshaping workplaces.
WISE IDEA designs programs that:
- help people living with mental health conditions improve their thinking and communication skills and manage their health and wellbeing in the context of work.
- give support workers the skills to help their clients achieve their employment or other vocational goals.
- assist employers and businesses to provide inclusive workplaces.
Feedback from our participants, support workers, carers, employers, or funders
"I liked the assessments and paperwork to help learn about myself. It’s important because it’s setting me up for higher-level jobs and the thinking that’s needed for these types of jobs."
- Employ Your Mind participant
"The program has provided me with soft padding for life and work (support, skills, strategies, people I trust)."
- Employ Your Mind participant
"(I’m) much better prepared for employment."
- The Journey to Work participant
"I feel self-worth and purpose now; I am ready to explore something else."
- The Journey to Work participant
"A highlight of facilitating Employ Your Mind was supporting the EYM students to explore jobs and opportunities that they had previously not considered, in addition to teaching them their rights around disclosure. The EYM graduation was also a highlight of course!"
- EYM Train the Coach-Learning Coach
"We have a supportive model that we developed with WISE IDEA. It challenged us around how people fit into the workplace and has been great from a diversity point of view"
- Employer
"Knowing what works allows us to fund the best interventions. Understanding where gaps exist helps us to respond more effectively to complicated issues, particularly in the area of innovation."
- WISE IDEA funder
Contact Us
General enquiries
WISEIDEA@wise.org.au
0409 945 492
Media enquiries
With decades of experience in the field of mental health and employment, WISE IDEA is well-placed to provide expert commentary to the media on matters relating to:
- mental health and employment
- cognitive remediation (assisting people to improve their thinking skills to make improvements in their everyday lives).
Please email details of your media request, including the deadline and news outlet,
to pr@wise.org.au for consideration.