Collective Impact for mental health in Husby

Purpose and goal: Collective Impact Husby is a collaborative model to strengthen the capacity of local actors to work for wellbeing and

mental health. Creating collective capacity to act aligned with the needs of residents in Husby with support of a sustainable structure for systematic work and pooled resources. Through this project, the first initiatives for strengthened mental health and wellbeing have been initiated and a monitoring structure developed. Thereby, the model has also been made concrete and the conditions for continued development have been created.

Expected results and effects:

The interventions "Knowledge bank" and "Psychological Safety Net" supports Husby residents, especially young adults, to receive early support for their mental health. The Knowledge bank provides target group-adapted guidance on how to seek support from professional actors in the care system, while the Psychological Safety Net provides structure for local role models in the area to get tools to acknowledge and support people who need someone to talk to in the event of a crisis or other events. Through the follow-up model "How are we doing?" creates local data for monitoring.

Approach and implementation:

As part of Collective Impact Husby, working groups from the involved actors have jointly created the respective intervention. The work has been based on a strategic analysis and dialogue with relevant research, especially concerning the Psychological Safety Net, which is inspired by so-called task shifting. The work has been coordinated by process managers from Folkets Husby.

RISE has provided support for intervention design and has designed the follow-up model. The questionnaires in the follow-up have been discussed with the actors and tested on the relevant target groups.