"Motorola (U.S.) calculates that from this training they make a return of $50 for each dollar spent on employee training."

We asked Agile to find out where workplaces were at with the concept of health promotion and what strategies might work best to prevent or minimise gambling-related harm. After consultations with local businesses and Social Planning and Economic Development Officers from Local Government, we now have a much better sense of the health promotion capacity of workplaces and the place of gambling as a "stand alone" issue.

Gambler’s Help Southern has been involved with workplaces in a number of ways. We’ve provided information materials and on-site information displays, delivered education sessions for employees, professional development for staff in employee support positions and a forum specifically for workplaces. All of these activities have been worthwhile, but we have long believed that there is a better, more strategic way of operating in the workplace setting…hence the Workplace Project.

A two-part action plan was developed by Agile. One part focuses upon advocating for the building of the health promotion capacity of workplaces. The other part involves the joint development and piloting of a multi-faceted workplace health promotion program.

We need partners for this pilot program to happen - this was made very clear by health promotion literature, by the project research and by our reflections upon our own organisational capacity.