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What is Community Wellbeing?
"Community wellbeing is the combination of social, economic, environmental, cultural, and political conditions identified by individuals and their communities as essential for them to flourish and fulfil their potential."
Source: WhatWorksWellbeing
Video: TEDx | Self Care to Communities of Care
Whether it be a young man who is threatening to engage in a mass shooting or a new mother who is diagnosed as having postpartum depression, how is it that we’ve come to think of distress as existing inside of a person? Why do we think we can simply label a person as disordered and ignore the ways in which society is disordered? What might be the possibilities of moving away from locating distress almost exclusively inside of people and instead begin interrogating neoliberal systems that put pressure on who people believe they are allowed to be? If people in relative positions of power routinely engaged in this practice, might this move us towards a model of community care where people don’t have to self-care their way out of social inequities? Travis Heath discusses the use of narrative therapy and the ways in which it pursues these very goals.
Learn more about Community Wellbeing, take an assessment to identify your community involvement level, and set goals to improve community wellbeing.
Places & Community: What Works Wellbeing
What works when it comes to effective policy and practice to improve both individual and community wellbeing? And how do we measure things like community wellbeing: why can’t we just add up all the reported individual wellbeing scores in an area? Our evidence, analysis and guidance looks at how community wellbeing can be understood and improved. Explore research, videos, practical examples & more.
Self & Community Care Toolkit
A collection of downloadable resources for BIPOC and AAPI individual and community support. Also includes resources for allies.
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