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d. The MHTT is a free training package available to all workplaces through Beyond Blue. Additional to this, in July 2017 the MHTT workshop was provided as a one-off exercise to staff at the Human Rights Commission. ACT Health is not resourced to offer the training more broadly.

The Self Care & Resilience workshop is for ACT Health staff only.

e. The take up for MHTT in:

i. 2015-16 = 1 workshop, 12 staff

ii. 2016-17 = 9 workshops, 99 staff

The take up for the Self Care workshop in:

i. 2015-16 = 9 workshops, 235 staff

ii. 2016/17 = 28 workshops, 604 staff

3. a. ACT Health spending on staff training in mental health first aid during 2016-17 totalled $35 670.

a. The directorate’s budget for 2017-18 for staff health and wellbeing programs is $100,000. Approximately $53,000 will be spent on mental health first aid related programs.

b. ACT Health encourages staff to attend programs by promoting them through:

• all staff bulletins (weekly emails);

• the intranet;

• MyHealth Champions monthly newsletters (Champions are group of staff who volunteer to promote staff health and wellbeing in their area);

• the wider, ongoing communication of, and reporting against, the MyHealth staff health and wellbeing strategy.

c. The take-up of the mental health first aid training programs offered by the private sector was:

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