Employment

Media release

This Labour Day, the Like Minds, Like Mine campaign is asking New Zealand employers to think carefully about how they can create a stigma-free workplace for people with experience of mental illness... Read more

Employers' Toolkit

Our online toolkit provides information and resources about the issues of mental health and employment. You can use it to advance your efforts towards a mentally healthy and stigma-free workplace.

Personal stories

	Like Minds mental health promoter Grant Cooper says his own experience of mental illness is seen an asset by his employer... Read full story...
	After an initial employment set-back, a supportive referree made all the difference in giving Dennis Duerr his start in a career in mental health... Read full story...
	For Case Consulting's Darcey Ensor, the support of colleagues gave her life new meaning - she says work is fundamental to her recovery... Read full story...
	Meesh Holswich knows what it's like to feel intimidated by her employer, to the point where she felt her only option was to resign.... Read full story...
	When Bonny Neems was reduced to tears in her employer's office after an emotional crash, she was bouyed by the fact he admitted his own struggles... Read full story...
	Manager Richard Johns says of employing people with experience of mental illness, it's simply a matter of creating a comfortable working environment... Read full story...

Key Messages

"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (author)

• For people with experience of a mental illness, fairness is as important as therapies and treatment.
• Attitudes within the wider public have improved but unfair treatment still exists.
• Fair treatment allows every person to be the best they can be.
• Every individual, employer and organisation can contribute to a fairer society that better includes and values people with experience of a mental illness.