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EFD Afterhours
EFD Afterhours is a new addition to the events programme for 2007/08 and a format unique to EFD.
Each Afterhours event brings EFD members together in an informal environment to share knowledge and experience on a topical theme. The events are free to attend and include guest speakers — the UK's leading disability experts — who will create debate and challenge perceptions of disability.
Afterhours will take you out of the office environment to inspire fresh thinking and new ideas on disability. Each event takes place at the Museum of Garden History, an unusual venue, just across the river from Westminster. Refreshments will be available throughout the evening and we create a setting to make it easy for you to network with other EFD members and share best practice.
Focus: Mental health
When: Thursday 12 June 2008, 6pm – 8.30pm
Location: London
Did you know that one in six of your employees could be experiencing mental ill-health at any one time?
Are you aware of the bigger picture when it comes to your employees and their mental well-being?
Latest research by EFD, in partnership with Great Place to Work, shows that many line managers are unsure of what to do when dealing with mental ill-health among colleagues.
This is an opportunity for you to discuss the findings of this research, presented here for the first time, and debate the effect mental ill-health may have on every area of your organisation.
With our expert panel, you will have the chance to debate why workplace mental health is hard to address and consider how much responsibility should be placed on an employer to promote mental well-being.
Who should attend?
All levels of management from HR, diversity and equality departments and occupational health.EFD Afterhours are member only events.
Confirmed speakers
- Dame Carol Black
- Health Work Wellbeing
- Paul Farmer
- Chief Executive, Mind
- Dr Bob Grove
- Director of Employment Programmes, The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Neil Lowther
- National Social Inclusion Programme
- Susan Scott Parker
- Chief Executive, Employers' Forum on Disability
- James Partridge
- Director, Changing Faces will chair the panel