About Us

SafeMINDed® is an independent mental health accreditation for your workplace that not only recognises current practices that support good mental health in the workplace, but also develops strategies, methods, and approaches to further enhance these practices, using criterion within the SafeMINDed® framework. These criterion are measurable against a maturity model and allow your workplace to achieve bronze, silver, or gold accreditation status. SafeMINDed® is a solution for workplaces who are seeking to become mental health aware, and visibly demonstrate their commitment to ensuring a psychologically safe environment.

Overview

SafeMINDed® Mental Health Accreditation is a unique, evidence-based framework specific to mental health and wellbeing, that accredits your workplace in being an environment that promotes good mental health and ensures a mental health aware workforce. Embedding effective mental health support within your organisation using the SafeMINDed® framework contributes to staff retention and success, decreased sick leave, increased staff capacity, capability and productivity. SafeMINDed®demonstrates your commitment to prioritising mental health and ensures visibility within policy, practice and lived values. The accreditation process is undertaken, monitored, and supported by experienced mental health professionals.

Development

Through personal experiences as an educator in the tertiary sector, and given the global prevalence of rising poor mental health among both students and the wider workforce, Dr Suzie Bartlett identified the critical need for the development of a specialised mental health accreditation framework. SafeMINDed® is an evidence-based framework that has been developed by Suzie through a large national research study. The study was focused on investigating the mental health and wellbeing of tertiary learners. SafeMINDed®was developed in education but has wider application to any business/organisation from small to large scale nationally.