Over the past two decades, the Mental Health Foundation has delivered a wide range of pioneering, evidence‑informed mental health programmes across the UK, often working with communities at higher risk of mental ill health.
While we are no longer running programmes directly, the insights generated through this work remain deeply valuable. Here we bring together the evidence, learning and impact from our programme portfolio over the years.
Our approach was to develop, prototype and demonstrate the effectiveness of prevention-focused community-based mental health programmes, with a view to embedding them in existing systems long-term. Insights from our programmes have also informed other aspects of our work, including our research, policy and public engagement activities.
Many of our programmes have also lead to the creation of resources which can continue to be used by people to look after their own mental health or support the people they work with.
By sharing what we learned – what worked, for whom, and under what conditions – we aim to equip others with the evidence and insight needed to design effective, scalable and sustainable mental health support.
Highlighed programmes
Becoming a Man
Together to Thrive
Young Parents Connect
UOK?
Creating Connections
Key ingredients of successful mental health programmes
Through our programmes work, we identified a number of approaches which were proven to help people support their own mental health or the people around them. By using different combinations of these key ingredients depending on the context, we were able to take the lessons we learned through our wider programmes work and mental health research to create effective solutions that are proven to work.
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