{"id":79229,"date":"2025-09-11T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=79229"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:00:48","slug":"tal-supports-mental-health-virtual-reality-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/09\/11\/tal-supports-mental-health-virtual-reality-program\/","title":{"rendered":"TAL Supports Mental Health Virtual Reality Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new virtual reality tool supported by TAL\u2019s Community Foundation is set to help young people find work and build confidence as part of their recovery from mental ill-health \u2013 all from inside a VR headset.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orygen.org.au\/virtual-reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orygen<\/a>&#8216;s Virtual Reality for Vocational Recovery simulates workplace scenarios using VR technology, giving young people engaged with supported employment programs an opportunity to practise and learn in a safe, controlled environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Homer<\/strong>, TAL Chief Executive Customer and Brand, and foundation Chair, said the program reflected the firm\u2019s and Orygen\u2019s shared commitment to improving community mental health outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMental ill-health is a significant challenge facing a growing number of young Australians and it requires new approaches,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is expected to help about 20 young people during this year&#8217;s trial before being rolled out to youth and community partners nationally.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VR at Orygen (webpage)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/veeq9PDCZJ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new virtual reality tool supported by TAL\u2019s Community Foundation is set to help young people find work and build confidence as part of their recovery from mental ill-health \u2013 all from inside a VR headset. Orygen&#8216;s Virtual Reality for Vocational Recovery simulates workplace scenarios using VR technology, giving young people engaged with supported employment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":79230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3,8281],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79229","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\/79229","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}