{"id":886218,"date":"2026-09-09T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886218\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:10:10","slug":"beyond-r-u-ok-day-year-round-mental-health-in-the-public-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886218\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond R U OK? Day: Year-round mental health in the public service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As agencies don yellow for R U OK? Day today, the organisation\u2019s workplace program manager wants public sector workplaces to think beyond the cupcakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Julie-Anne\u00a0Whitfield said the annual morning tea is just a stage for the big conversations every workplace needs to have about mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said people should \u201cAsk, \u2018Are you okay?\u2019 any day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWellbeing becomes performative when it is treated as an event. It becomes meaningful when it changes how people are led, supported, and included every day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As agencies don yellow for R U OK? Day today, the organisation\u2019s workplace program manager wants public sector&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,455868,514,515,455869,455870,455871],"class_list":["post-886218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-julie-anne-whitfield","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychosocial-safety","tag-r-u-ok","tag-r-u-ok-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}