These promotions were supported by a Health Resource Centre that provides information, referrals to local services and a free counselling service for employees and their families.
Our partnership with Mensline Australia, which provides a dedicated telephone contact line for our male employees, has proved successful over three years of operation.
The Staying Connected workshop program offered to separated fathers has continued to be popular. Independent research shows a return on investment in less than three years through improved attendance and work performance, as well as substantial personal benefits to the participants.
A domestic and family violence policy was implemented in May. Training sessions for managers and supervisors have given them the skills to provide information, referral and support to employees to assist in the prevention of violence and abuse in their relationships.
During the year we launched our Money for Keeps financial education program to provide our employees with high-quality, independent information that will equip them to be effective money managers and discerning consumers of financial products and services.
Money for Keeps is based on adult learning principles and an educational model prepared by Swinburne University Industry Consulting Services, in consultation with financial literacy educationalists. It is designed to help people move through the program so that they experience real learning to achieve, ultimately, positive behavioural change. Topics covered so far have included budgeting, credit and debt, savings, superannuation and tax.
Program materials are delivered through fortnightly fact sheets, quarterly newsletters and booklets, workshops and an interactive website. Whenever possible, materials are mailed to homes to encourage use by the whole family.
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