BUSINESS RESILIENCE PROJECT
RECOVERY AFTER NATURAL DISASTER & PANDEMIC
PLEASE NOTE: The Business Resilience Project is wrapping up 24th October. As such we are unable to take on any new customers.
FREE workplace support for small business owners and their employees.
The Business Resilience Project is a fully-subsidised workplace service, providing small business operators with the tools, guidance and connections needed to support recovery, resilience and wellbeing for both themselves and their workforce.
Strength-based service to support resilience for businesses in small, regional communities.
The Black Summer Bushfires of 2019, the pandemic and then flood disasters that came in rapid succession afterwards have had long lasting impact on communities and business. Guidance and support to improve recovery and resilience will offer protective strategies to manage challenges for small businesses and their workplaces.
Is your small business eligible?
Free wellbeing and workplace support for small businesses and their employees available to business operators in the following areas:
- Mid Coast, Greater Taree Region
- Hastings Valley, Port Macquarie Region
- Macleay Valley, Kempsey Region
- Clarence Valley, Grafton Region
- Richmond Valley, Lismore Region
Joanne has been an amazing resource for our staff in the past few months following what has been a tumultuous couple of years where we have experienced multiple bushfire threats, the impact of COVID-19 on our small business, and most recently, the floods. It has been exhausting keeping up with all the added responsibility, rebuilding and navigating available resources. Joanne has helped us navigate this ‘new world’ with understanding and kindness. She’s kept our spirits high and motivated, while also assisting with identifying appropriate supports for our small business and residents.
Your pathway to improved resilience and mental fitness.
Proudly funded by the Bushfire Community Recovery & Resilience Fund, the Business Resilience Project offers supports and resources to small business operators in bushfire effected communities who want to build their individual and workplace wellbeing.
Connect
Connect with a dedicated Business Resilience Mentor who can assess individual and workplace wellbeing and tailor an action plan to suit your individual and workplace needs
Access
Access custom Business Resilience resources on wellbeing, resilience, mentally healthy workplaces, self-care, workforce transition and trauma informed practice
Referral
Connection and coordination with existing business and mental health services to help support resilience for you and your business
Network
Engagement with peer business support networks within your local area to facilitate shared experience and knowledge
Workplace
Referral to custom workplace wellbeing workshops or consults provided by CHESS Connect as required *numbers are limited
Check-In
Regular communication and check-ins between small business owners and the Business Resilience Mentors throughout the project
Our team
Meet our dedicated Business Resilience Mentors
Sally Milliss
Business resilience mentor
taree, portmacquarie, kempsey
Cate Murphy
BUSINESS RESILIENCE MENTOR
GRAFTON, YAMBA, MACLEAN, LISMORE
Local to the Clarence Valley for sixteen years, Cate has worked across the Richmond and Clarence regions as the owner of two small businesses before transitioning to delivering programs of support for CHESS Connect.
Originally trained in a hospital setting as a Mental Health nurse, Cate brings to her mentorship role the skills acquired through a lengthy career in the public, private and not for profit sectors of mental health.
Passionate about innovation, Cate believes dedicated mentorship is the key to building resilience, enhancing well being and the rejuvenation of business goals. Together we can think outside the box as we identify needs, adopt resources, and action a plan toward a vibrant, healthy and sustainable future.
SUPPORTING WELLBEING IN THE WORKPLACE
A bit about CHESS Connect
CHESS Connect is a for purpose, not for profit human service organisation, supporting Mid North Coast and North Coast Communities for over 25 years.
We collaborate with business, councils, Government Departments and their employees to educate and promote a culture of positive wellness in the workplace. Leveraging our extensive experience in both mental health recovery and employment, we have developed strategic workplace services that offer holistic, strength-based frameworks to improve wellbeing, productivity, effective service delivery and customer satisfaction.
The Business Resilience Project is proudly funded by the Bushfire Community Recovery and Resilience Fund, through the joint Commonwealth/State Disaster Recovery Funding
Arrangements. Although funding for this product has been provided by both the Australian and NSW Governments, the material contained
herein does not necessarily represent the views of either government.