{"id":69180,"date":"2023-12-18T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T02:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=69180"},"modified":"2023-12-18T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T02:21:31","slug":"support-for-mens-mental-health-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2023\/12\/18\/support-for-mens-mental-health-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Men&#8217;s Mental Health Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich Financial Services Australia has renewed its 12-month support for Australian mental health charity, <a href=\"https:\/\/mrperfect.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr Perfect<\/a>, noting that around one in five males in Australia experienced a 12-month mental disorder in 2020-2022.<\/p>\n<p>The insurer says Mr Perfect provides conversation and connection for men through informal gatherings across the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69182\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/12\/Linda-Griffin-e1702863443230.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-69182\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/12\/Linda-Griffin-e1702863443230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Griffin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In their sixth consecutive year of collaboration, the company has supported the charity&#8217;s expansion to more than 40 locations around Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich says its announcement follows a recent National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing, which found around one in five males in Australia experienced a 12-month mental disorder in 2020-2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;it creates a safe space for meaningful conversation between men&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Linda Griffin,<\/strong> Head of Brand, Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Zurich Australia &amp; New Zealand says Mr Perfect is effective \u201c\u2026because it creates a safe space for meaningful conversation between men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that mental health conditions are on the rise, and that reluctance to seek help disproportionately affects men. A recent national study found 21.6% of females in Australia saw a professional for their mental health compared with just 12.9% of males.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grassroots charity is one of many in the mental health arena that Zurich supports in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich Financial Services Australia has renewed its 12-month support for Australian mental health charity, Mr Perfect, noting that around one in five males in Australia experienced a 12-month mental disorder in 2020-2022. The insurer says Mr Perfect provides conversation and connection for men through informal gatherings across the country. In their sixth consecutive year of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":69184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3,8281],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news","8":"category-general","9":"category-health-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69180","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}