{"id":80123,"date":"2025-11-10T09:42:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=80123"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:40:08","slug":"tal-launches-new-mental-health-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/11\/10\/tal-launches-new-mental-health-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"TAL Launches New Mental Health Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAL and mental health organisation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sane.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SANE<\/a> are to deliver new support programs for Australians living with mental ill-health. The collaboration includes a three-year digital health initiative and a pilot peer recovery program for people on claim.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, the TAL Community Foundation and SANE will co-develop a digital support service aimed at reaching those who have experienced mental health distress but not received consistent care through traditional channels.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, TAL and SANE have introduced a peer recovery pilot program for eligible superannuation fund members receiving IP or TPD benefits. The 20-week program provides one-to-one support, group sessions and community connections to help participants rebuild their health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75069\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75069\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/12\/Georgina-Croft24white1-scaled-e1733717041198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/12\/Georgina-Croft24white1-scaled-e1733717041198.jpg 904w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/12\/Georgina-Croft24white1-scaled-e1733717041198-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/12\/Georgina-Croft24white1-scaled-e1733717041198-851x1024.jpg 851w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/12\/Georgina-Croft24white1-scaled-e1733717041198-768x924.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/12\/Georgina-Croft24white1-scaled-e1733717041198-696x838.jpg 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/12\/Georgina-Croft24white1-scaled-e1733717041198-349x420.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgina Croft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mental ill-health has been TAL&#8217;s leading cause of claims for four consecutive years, with more than 11,000 Australians claiming for a mental health condition in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgina Croft<\/strong>, Chief Claims Officer at TAL, said: \u201cIt\u2019s clear that the rising instance of complex mental health conditions is having a profound impact on the people and families we support every day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Which is why we&#8217;re committed to working collaboratively with experts like SANE, alongside our industry partners, to ensure we are there for people in their most vulnerable moments, and support their recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAL and mental health organisation SANE are to deliver new support programs for Australians living with mental ill-health. The collaboration includes a three-year digital health initiative and a pilot peer recovery program for people on claim. Under the agreement, the TAL Community Foundation and SANE will co-develop a digital support service aimed at reaching those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8281],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news","8":"category-health-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80123","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=80123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}