{"id":11538,"date":"2011-07-25T16:46:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T06:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=11538"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T00:17:37","slug":"afa-concerned-advisers-at-risk-of-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2011\/07\/25\/afa-concerned-advisers-at-risk-of-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"AFA Links With beyondblue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concern about the\u00a0mental health of some advisers\u00a0has seen the AFA develop a partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au\/index.aspx?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beyondblue<\/a>, the national depression and anxiety initiative, to encourage AFA members to seek help if required.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h6>These changes have the potential to impact profoundly on the way our members operate<\/h6>\n<p>&#8220;The environment our members operate in is changing, highlighted most recently by the FoFA reforms announced by government,&#8221; said AFA CEO, <strong>Richard Klipin<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These changes have the potential to impact profoundly on the way our members operate.\u00a0 The AFA recognises the relationship between changes in the workplace and people&#8217;s mental health and would like to take a proactive step towards helping members become more aware of depression and anxiety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>beyondblue Deputy CEO,\u00a0<strong>Clare Shann<\/strong>,\u00a0said the organisation was pleased to be working with the AFA to communicate its message of early intervention.\u00a0 &#8220;Periods of substantial change and stress can put people at risk of developing depression and anxiety.\u00a0 It&#8217;s critical that employers take a proactive approach to managing mental health in the workplace,&#8221; Ms Shann said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Klipin added that because advisers generally operate small businesses they do not have the same access to resources as those employed by large corporations.\u00a0 &#8220;These do not, for example, have access to specialised employee assistance programs.\u00a0 Therefore, we will be offering our members access to forums from accredited beyondblue facilitators.\u00a0 We are also offering a beyondblue workshop at our annual conference,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concern about the\u00a0mental health of some advisers\u00a0has seen the AFA develop a partnership with beyondblue, the national depression and anxiety initiative, to encourage AFA members to seek help if required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-associations","category-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}