Mental Health Equity Project
ONGOING PROJECT
As part of Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital $4.5 million dollar investment in Community Health Impact Funds, we have been awarded the opportunity to create a more inclusive, supportive, and accessible ecosystem of care advancing mental health equity.
Leveraging partnerships, trusted spaces and peer-networks, our mental health equity project aims to enhance community access to behavioral health services by creating a groundswell, increasing mental health awareness and acceptance within the Boston neighborhoods of Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, and West Roxbury.
Our project entails:
Partnering with ten trusted community partners to individually tailor Mental Design Institute’s ‘What is Mental Health?’ series on mental health and self-care to the unique assets and needs of the populations they serve.
Training partner staff and community member’s to co-facilitate these conversations.
Co-creation of a resource guide for community-based behavioral health services.
Training and employing community participants as peer-to-peer advocates to promote mental health awareness and resource sharing.
Convening behavioral health providers, community-based organizations, and community members to bridge clinical and community resources, addressing mental health-related needs, and connecting community members to care.
Collaborating Organizations
