Mental Health Equity
Through cross-sector collaboration and community leadership, we are co-creating a more inclusive, accessible, and culturally responsive ecosystem of care to support mental wellness for all.
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 partner with community-based organizations to co-design and facilitate community conversations rooted in the Mental Design Institute's Understanding Everyday Emotions series, exploring mental health, wellbeing, and community supports. These conversations are a launchpad for a pipeline of peer ambassadors who are hired and trained to spread awareness and resources throughout their social networks. Our monthly, multi-sector Access Network brings together practitioners, providers, community members, and organizations to share ideas and resources and address stigma and access to care. We co-create, translate, and distribute a Mental Wellness Resource Guide.
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
The Work in Action
Partner with local organizations to co-design workshops
Hire and train community mental health ambassadors
Convene monthly Mental Health Access Network
Impact to Date
30
Community co-facilitators
123
Maternal health conversation participants
87.5%
of partners reported they are better able to spread information about mental and emotional health as a result of participating in the conversation series
96%
of participants reported they are more likely to talk to others about mental health and how they’re feeling as a result of participating in the conversation series
