Mental Well-being Impact Assessment

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Mental Well-being Impact Assessment
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Anthea Cooke Director of Inukshuk and Nerys
Edmonds Mental Health Promotion Specialist -
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
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What is Mental Well-being Impact Assessment
(MWIA)?A pioneering methodology that enables
a wide range of organisations and programmes to
understand and demonstrate their impact on
mental well-being
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MWIA Toolkit

• The MWIA toolkit provides a structured, evidence
  based analysis of how policies, proposals,
  programmes and projects might influence mental
  health and well-being
• It focuses on positive mental well-being
• MWIA is rooted in Health Impact Assessment
  methodology and exists to build healthy public
  policy
• With ever increasing policy emphasis on
  well-being, this MWIA toolkit provides an ideal
  methodology for supporting systems, organisations
  and programmes to improve and evidence their
  impact on well-being
• Current toolkit is designed for use with adults,
  a version for use with children and young people
  is in development.

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The MWIA toolkit has been developed by a
partnership of
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Achievements and Developments

• 200 people have now been trained in the North
  West, Midlands and London to carry out MWIAs
• Well over 400 MWIAs have been carried out on a
  wide range of programmes including Local Area
  Agreements, Carers Projects, mental health
  projects, community arts, the European Capital of
  Culture 08 in Liverpool, Well London, and now in
  schools.
• A National MWIA Collaborative has now been
  formed to integrate MWIA in public health policy
  and practice at a national level
• An updated version of the toolkit will be
  published in 2009 and work is currently taking
  place on a version for use with young people and
  in schools

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From evaluation of the use of the MWIA tool the
benefits are

• Engaging a range of stakeholders, including
  beneficiaries, to increase awareness and
  understanding of mental well-being
• Identifying potential positive and negative
  impacts of a project or proposal on mental
  well-being
• Creating set of evidence based recommendations
  and an action plan for a project to enhance
  positive impact and minimise negative impacts
• Developing specific indicators (measures) of
  mental well-being for projects

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MWIA is based on four key evidence based factors
which promote and protect mental well-being

• Enhancing control
• Increasing resilience and community assets
• Facilitating participation
• Promoting inclusion.
• (Department of Health, 2001)

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What is the impact of Statutory PSHE on your
mental well-being?

• Enhancing control
• Increasing resilience and community assets
• Facilitating participation
• Promoting inclusion.

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Importance
Social support
Emotional health and well-being
Positive Impact
Negative Impact
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MWIA work with schools and young people

• Design process for a specific MWIA toolkit for
  work with young people
• Work for the Learning Trust in Hackney carrying
  out MWIA in three schools

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MWIA design work

• Early version of the toolkit was used in youth
  settings as part of Neighbourhood Renewal and
  MWIAs were carried on physical activity projects
  and youth clubs
• Piloting of a game version with a youth club in
  Croydon in 2008
• A co- design workshop with young people to test
  activities and develop appropriate language

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Work in Schools

• We were commissioned by the Learning Trust in
  Hackney to carry out MWIAs in three schools
• Each school has selected a specific programme or
  issue for the focus of the MWIA
• We have MWIAs focusing on
• staff well-being,
• parental engagement
• a preventative programme for children in year 5/6

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Learning so far

• All of the schools have been able to readily see
  the connections between issues and programmes in
  their school and the four factors addressed in
  MWIA
• They have been enthusiastic and open to using the
  tool
• We have so far completed the MWIA with parents

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MWIA with parents

• Focused on the impact on their well-being of
  getting involved in with school life
• We negotiated with the school a way to encourage
  parents to attend
• An assembly focused on health eating , where
  parents brought in international dishes
• 15 -20 parents engaged with the MWIA workshop
  many of whom were not the usual suspects
• Quickly able to generate what well-being meant
  for them e.g. being able to care for their
  children, social activities, money, meeting
  people
• I think todays session was great, met new
  parents, each of us spoke our mind and we all
  raised thoughts. We should have more of these
  sessions

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Support for putting MWIA into action

• The MWIA toolkit can be downloaded for free
• Seeking partners to develop the children young
  peoples MWIA toolkit.
• Action Learning programme a three day programme
  where you learn the theory and evidence behind
  MWIA, how to use the toolkit in practice and how
  to use the materials. During the programme you
  put MWIA into action by working in small groups
  to carry out an MWIA on a local project
• Mentoring during and after the training course to
  support you in using MWIA on your local
  programmes
• Providing MWIAs for organisations projects and
  programmes.

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For further information on MWIA

• You can download the toolkit from
• http//www.northwest.csip.org.uk/work/mental-healt
  h-and-social-wellbeing/mental-health-promotion/men
  tal-wellbeing-impact-assessment-toolkit.html
• The toolkit and MWIAs report and information are
  also on the HIA Gateway - http//www.apho.org.uk/
  default.aspx?RID40141
• Contact us
• anthea.cooke_at_inukshukconsultancy.com
• Nerys.Edmonds_at_slam.nhs.uk