The full working minds toolkit is available below. This comprehensive, practical guide contains useful material to help employers make positive changes to policy and practice surrounding mental health. It has been designed as a flexible, stimulating resource and will be particularly useful to managers and human resource professionals.

The toolkit is available as a set of PDF files, which can be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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You can download the toolkit section by section, or download the entire toolkit if you prefer. (This file is approximately 1.5 megabytes in size and will take about 20 minutes to download on an ordinary modem.)

Welcome gives an overview of the issues and presents the business case for a positive approach. download the welcome section

People contains key questions and answers about staff management issues, plus stories from real people about how they have managed their mental health problems at work. download the people section

Practice contains key questions and answers about implementing good policy and practice on mental health, and gives case studies of good practice from a range of organisations. download the practice section

Law contains key questions and answers about the law surrounding mental health at work, and gives examples of real legal cases dealing with discrimination and mental health. download the law section

Facts contains a Lexicon dealing with the kind of language we use in talking about mental health issues, a summary of the working minds research report on workplace attitudes to mental health, and key facts to provide a strong context for the issues. download the facts section

Resources provides comprehensive listings of further materials and useful organisations to help you address mental health issues at work. download the resources section

A screen saver and posters are also available to help raise awareness of mental health issues in your workplace.