Working Together for Mental Health: Evaluation of a one-day mental health course for human service providers

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 Participants' workplace characteristics

Workplace Characteristic	N	(%)
Type of Organisation
Non-government organisation	82	(53.6)
Non-health government organisation	27	(17.6)
NSW health service	33	(21.6)
Other, insufficient information or not stated	11	(7.2)
Work Role
Support Worker	52	(34.2)
Professional	42	(27.6)
Manager/Coordinator	20	(13.2)
Admin/Reception	13	(8.6)
Student	4	(2.6)
Other	14	(9.2)
Not stated	7	(4.6)
Services provided*
Disability support	63	(18.2)
Child and family	44	(12.7)
Aged care	40	(11.5)
Employment	33	(9.5)
Counselling	32	(9.2)
Housing/Homelessness	32	(9.2)
Welfare	32	(9.2)
Youth	29	(8.4)
Legal/Justice	12	(3.5)
Other	30	(8.6)

*Most organisations provide more than one type of service.
Note: 23 people did not complete the last section of the questionnaire because they do not work for an agency that provides human services. This initially appears incompatible with only 11 people responding in the 'other' category in response to the question on the type of organisation worked for. However it is likely that carers or students identified a workplace not related to the human service field because the categories used were broad. That 25 people were in the 'student', 'other' or 'not stated' category for work role is consistent with people not working for a relevant organisation.

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