Mental Health Equity
Advancing a collaborative, cross-sector, and community-driven model for mental wellness support, peer advocacy, and education.
Objective
Through cross-sector collaboration and community leadership, we are co-creating a more inclusive, accessible, and culturally responsive ecosystem of care supporting community-defined mental wellness for all.
About
With support from Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital’s Community Health Impact Fund, we are partnering with mental wellness service providers and 10 community-based organizations to adapt the Mental Design Institute’s What is Mental Health framework into community-based conversations exploring mental health processes and supports. These convos will be a launchpad for a pipeline of peer advocates who are hired and trained to spread this information throughout their social networks, and to connect their peers to self-care strategies and local supportive services.
Being able to integrate [the science of emotions and the body] and practice it is where I believe empowerment comes from…when you have the knowledge and the tools then you can control the direction of life, and health and balance and wellbeing…
Sam Williams, Founder, One Circle Health and Wellness
Partners
