Mental Health in the Workplace:
A Guide to Your Rights
This guide was developed and authored by Barbara Brennan for her client Mental Health Reform, and was developed with co-production at it's heart. It is based on employment law as it relates to mental health, the UNCRPD, Public Sector Duty and best practice around mental health in the workplace.
This guide was created to provide accessible information to improve awareness and understanding of rights in relation to mental health in the workplace and hopes to empower people with psychosocial disabilities to both understand and claim their rights in the workplace in a practical and implementable way.
The Elephant In The Room Movement is a visual conversation about mental health, and giving space to normalising conversations in every walk of life about our most difficult experiences.
Barbara was delighted to support friend and colleague Brent Pope on his mission to change the world with his approach to easier conversations about mental health.
During her time with EITRM, Barbara developed the vision, mission, values, brochure and enhanced the website to include a more comprehensive and inclusive approach.
Green Ribbon Campaign
Barbara was responsible for the delivery of the annual See Change Green Ribbon campaign, which aims to spread awareness about all mental health difficulties to help end mental health stigma and discrimination.
She successfully led the See Change team through 4 annual Green Ribbon campaigns, supporting hundreds of events at local level. The campaigns had different themes each year and focused on minority group engagement, discrimination, shame and judgement.
Barbara developed and implemented a national framework for the campaign, introducing strong annual themes, events, templates and guides for the nation to engage with in a meaningful way.
Read the full campaign reports by clicking on the images below
See Change
Ireland's national mental health stigma reduction programme
Barbara began as one of See Changes first volunteers. She helped to launch the programme nationally in 2010, and was one of the early voices to publicly and nationally share her personal experience with mental health difficulties.
After engaging in national research and helping to build a new workplace programme focusing in stigma and discrimination, Barbara was then made a workplace facilitator in early 2013.
Barbara was appointed as See Change National Team Lead in 2019.
During her time as See Change National Team Leader she successfully launched 4 annual Green Ribbon campaigns in addition to all the annual events outside the campaign which helped facilitate conversations nationally. She oversaw the expansion of the workplace and Mental Health Advocate programmes, 7 national pieces of research which were published in the See Change booklets and the Green Ribbon reports.
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