Toolkit: Global Mental Health Communications

This case study focuses on a health promoter at the Great Lakes County Public Health Unit, recently tasked with planning and implementing a school-based mental health intervention for youth in her community. Finding that the mental health system is focused mainly on diagnosis and treatment rather than prevention and building of protective factors, she aims to build an intervention emphasizing mental health promotion in the elementary-school years to minimize risk factors and lower the likelihood…

This article from the Lancet discusses methods for transforming mental health systems worldwide, as the world faces a growing mental health crisis. The article presents a series of principles and policy actions aimed at shifting current practices of mental health systems, specifically targeting the prevention of harmful social environments, increased diversity in the mental health care workforce, the introduction of a rights-based approach to prevent violence in care, and the prioritization of people's experiences within…

These country profiles from the World Health Organization (WHO) present information on 155 individual countries and their efforts to address violence against children. Each profile provides a snapshot of an individual country’s policy and implementation efforts toward preventing violence against children, assessing seven key strategies known as INSPIRE: implementation and enforcement of laws; norms and values; safe environments; parent support; income strengthening; support services; and education. These country profiles accompany the Global Status Report on…