Home |
OpenCityPortal: | |||
Spanish, English, Japanese |
: What are the Priorities for Investment in PublicMental Health? |
I'd like to jointly create this type of social venture in my home town: | |||||||
You can create a Social Venture in your home town based on the business model in this page. The Social Entrepreneur Institute will assist you to make a business plan, funding the project and provide a More information on the Social Entrepreneurship Institute |
ActivityID: | |
City: | |
Chapter: | |
Full Name: | |
PartnerLong: | |
Country : |
About Your Project: | Reference Project: | ||||||
Company/Organization: | What are the Priorities for Investment in PublicMental Health? | ||||||
Project Code: |
|||||||
CategoryID: |
United Kingdom | ||||||
County: |
Merseyside | ||||||
City: |
Kensington, Liverpool | ||||||
Please write about your business concept in five paragraphs with sub-title for each | |||||||
Answer: Briefly describe the usefulness and uniqueness of your social venture | Evidence from Friedli (2009) confirms the following, as actions and commissioned activities that can improve population mental health. The WHO report, re-affirms the significance of mental health as crucial to our thinking about sustainable economic growth and in achieving greater social cohesion in the face of economic change. | ||||||
1: | 1 Social, cultural and economic conditions thatsupport family life | ||||||
1: Issues to be addressed by this social venture (or case) | • systematically work to reduce child poverty
• support parents and the development of children in early years through parenting skills training and high quality pre-school education • strengthen inter agency partnerships to reduce violence and sexual abuse • increase access to safe places for children to play, especially outdoors • make the business case for good work/life balance and provide adequate • maternity and paternity leave | ||||||
2: | 2 Education that equips children to flourishboth economically and emotionally | ||||||
2: What is the unique idea to solve the issues? | • increase uptake of the health promoting
schools approach, involving teachers, pupils,
parents and the wider community
• increase uptake of the health promoting
schools approach, involving teachers, pupils,
parents and the wider community
• support parents to improve the home learning environment (HLE) • value social, sports and creative achievements, as well as academic performance |
||||||
3: | 3 Employment opportunities and workplacepay and conditions that promote andprotect mental health | ||||||
3: Revenue Model & Organization | • support efforts to improve pay, working
conditions and job security, notably for the
most vulnerable workers • make the business case for improving job control, social support and effort/reward imbalance • early referral to workplace based support for employees experiencing psychiatric symptoms or personal crises to avert employment breakdown |
||||||
4: | 4 Partnerships between health and othersectors to address social and economicproblems that are a catalyst forpsychological distress | ||||||
4: Targeted Benefit & Outcome | • improve access to non medical sources of
support through social
prescribing/community referral or co
production models e.g. timebanking, to address basic skills, housing/transport problems, debt, isolation, limitations in daily living, opportunities for arts, leisure and physical activity etc. |
||||||
5: | 5 Reducing policy and environmental barriersto social contact | ||||||
5: Strengths and Risks of the business model | • policy responses to personal misfortune e.g.
poverty, unemployment and other
• adversity should not stigmatise or blame the victims • develop community transport schemes • promote volunteering and develop social outcome indicators • work with planners to introduce/re-introduce stop and chat public spaces • ensure that public spaces such as shopping malls do not exclude specific groups, for example teenagers. |
||||||
The Project Owner: Explain your experience and skills within 150 words. | |||||||
Business_Partners: Describe what types of business partners are you seeking | |||||||
Position1 (Investors): | |||||||
Position2 (Management & Staff): | |||||||
Position3 (Management & Staff): | |||||||
Position4 (Professional Staff): | |||||||
Position4 (Professional Staff): | |||||||
Position6 (Outside Experts): |
Business Partners can jointly develop a business plan | |||||||
Mode: |