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MATES funding
boost opens door to
South Island
LAST MONTH, MATES in Construction received a very welcome $600,000 in one-off funding from the Government’s Mental Wellbeing Innovation Fund.
MATES in Construction CEO Victoria McArthur says the charity will use the funding to expand their suicide prevention services, to ensure support for workers all over Aotearoa New Zealand and across all sectors of construction.
“Now, with this extra funding we will be able to increase
our presence in the South Island, including new field staff in Dunedin and Christchurch. This will mean more people in our industry can get support on their site.”
One of very few well documented and researched workplace- based suicide prevention programs globally, MATES’ approach has been highlighted as best practice by the World Health Organisation.
Since its inception, MATES in New Zealand has:
• Inductedover21,000workersintotheGeneralAwareness
Training programme
• Deliveredtheprogrammeonto256sites
• Had5,265call-backsrequestedafterattendingaMATES
training session
• Trained1,100peopleasConnectors
• Gainedthesupportof110industryorganisations.
“We know that as an industry we need to keep prioritising the wellbeing of our people, especially as we continue to battle COVID-19,” says Victoria McArthur.
“It’s excellent to have government recognise and support the work we are doing and help us to take those services even wider in our industry.”
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