Making a local impact on mental well-being.
The work of MWIA enables local areas, organisations and projects to look in detail at the subject of mental well-being and mental health promotion and helps to assess the impact they make and the further contributions and impact they can achieve on their own and more importantly with others as part of local efforts to promote and sustain good population mental well-being.
New edition of the Mental Well-being Impact Assessment Toolkit
This new edition of the Mental
Well-being Impact Assessment (MWIA) toolkit has been published by the National Mental
Health Development Unit in partnership with the English National MWIA Collaborative.
Improving population mental
health and well-being will be a key theme in the Government's
forthcoming Mental Health Strategy and the Public Health White Paper. The toolkit helps support national, regional and local services
and systems across health, local government, the voluntary, community and
private sector to embed mental well-being into their work. This version builds
on the earlier MWIA Toolkit published in 2007.
Documents to download
Well London: Mental Well Being Impact Assessment Project report - November 2009
Mental health is everybody's business' is a phrase we hear more and more, and with interest in mental health and its promotion increasing all the time, there is a need to find ways that help translate this interest and good intentions into action. This is the business and purpose of Mental Wellbeing Impact Assessment (MWIA). The work set out here helps in encouraging, engaging and enabling all sectors and agencies large and small to play their part in improving mental health and wellbeing for people, their families, communities and businesses.
Colleagues across the UK, Europe and further afield have been engaged in developing MWIA and are keen that the work continues to build on the experience, capability and learning that has begun. The aim now is to reach more areas, more people, more agencies and more communities. There is much more to do, to share and learn.
The work presented here offers an exciting opportunity to help impact positively for better mental health. Its application and value has been well tested over the last few years and the results and improvements are impressive. MWIA has the potential to make a significant difference to the lives and well-being of communities.
The National Mental Health Development Unit will be supporting further MWIA development and its use. We encourage you to work with us and others to engage more communities and areas in developing this practice.
Gregor Henderson
Wellbeing and Population Mental Health Programme
