Making Connections for

Mental Wellbeing Among Men

and Boys in the U.S.

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New Funding Opportunity: Making Connections for Mental Wellbeing Among

Men and Boys in the U.S.

Thursday May 28, 2015

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Welcome to our presenters:

Clare Shann

Larry Cohen

Howard Pinderhughes

Sheila Savannah

Sheila Savannah, MA

Director

Prevention Institute

Making Connections for

Mental Wellbeing Among Men

and Boys in the U.S.

Funding Announcement Webinar

Featuring:

Clare Shann, PhD

Mark Hedstrom

Larry Cohen, MSW

Howard Pinderhughes, PhD

Sheila Savannah, MA May 28, 2015

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Webinar Agenda

I. The Movember Foundation, Cornerstone Funder

II. Prevention Institute, Lead Coordinating Agency

III. What and Why of Community Level Approaches

IV. Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing

V. How to Apply to this Initiative

VI. Q&A

Polling Question:

Who is in the audience today?

Government

US Territory

School

Institution of Higher Education

Nonprofit with a 501(c)(3) status

Native American Tribal Organization

Faith-based Organization

Minority Serving Organization

Military and Veterans Serving Organization

For Profit Organization / Small Business

Other (Please submit answer in Q&A)

Clare Shann, PhD

Global Mental Health Lead

Movember Foundation

Movember Foundation

www.Movember.com

The Movember Foundation’s

vision is to have an everlasting

impact on the face of men’s

health

Current programs in prostate

cancer, testicular cancer and mental

health

The Movember Foundation

and community have raised

over $550 million globally

Movember Foundation

Movember Foundation

Larry Cohen, MSW

Executive Director

Prevention Institute

Prevention Institute

As Lead Coordinating Agency

Site selection and administration

Capacity building through technical assistance

Manage a multi-site learning community

Connect the work to additional key partners and

initiatives

Capture and disseminate lessons learned

Catalyze action on community-level approaches to

men’s mental health and wellbeing

What’s Mental

Health Got to Do

with It?

How Community Environments

Affect the Mental Wellbeing

of Boys & Men

It is unreasonable to expect

that people will change their

behavior easily when so many

forces in the social, cultural and

physical environment conspire

against such change.

— Institute of Medicine

”

“

…forces in the social, cultural

and physical environment

conspire...

— Institute of Medicine

”

“

What’s Mental

Health Got to Do

with It?

How Community Environments

Affect the Mental Wellbeing

of Boys & Men

Q&A Feature

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What’s Mental Health

and Wellbeing Got to

Do with It?

HEALTH & SAFETY

ENVIRONMENT

HEALTH & SAFETY

ENVIRONMENT

HEALTH & SAFETY BEHAVIOR &

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

ENVIRONMENT

HEALTH & SAFETY

BEHAVIOR BEHAVIOR & EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

ENVIRONMENT

Take 2

Steps to

Prevention

Medical Conditions

Exposures & Behaviors

Environment

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Medical Conditions

Exposures & Behaviors

Environment

The 1st

step ...

Medical

Conditions

Exposures & Behaviors

Environment

Let’s take

another

step ...

a systematic process that reduces the frequency

and/or severity of illness or injury

QUALITY

Prevention

is the Prescription

Comprehensive

Aimed at the

community environment

Changes norms

The ideas of

one generation

become the

instincts of

the next.

— D.H. Lawrence

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Howard Pinderhughes, PhD

Associate Professor

University of California, San Francisco

Subject Matter Expert, Prevention Institute

Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys in the U.S.

Making Connections: Report Findings

Prevention is not at scale to maximize

impact needed

Indigenous approaches are emerging –

supporting healing and mental wellbeing

Resilience is a critical protective factor

Boys and men of color are disproportionately impacted –

with far reaching implications related to fathering,

families and communities

Military service members, veterans, and their families

experience trauma and its effects disproportionately

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Mental Wellbeing

Connected to Community

Level Approaches

Promoting community-wide

strategy development that

engages public and private

partners in comprehensive

solutions

Making Connections

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Making Connections

Connection to Men and Boys

Focusing strategies in the places where men and boys spend

their time, through the people with whom they interact, doing

the things they enjoy doing

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Making Connections

Supporting men and

boys in experiencing

connection and in

coping with stressors

(past, present and

future)

Connect Men and Boys

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Making Connections

Re-connection to

Cultural Identity and

Expanded Notions of

Masculinity

Advancing the notion of

providing men and boys with

an expanded definition of who

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Making Connections

Transforming systems and

institutions that serve men

and boys to support positive

mental health outcomes

Embedding effective

strategies within the

practices of institutions,

systems and services

Creating a focal point for

advancing coordinated

strategy

Connect Systems and Institutions

to Mental Health and Wellbeing

and Each Other

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Community-Level

Mental Wellbeing Approaches

People

Equitable

Opportunity

Place

Within the Physical/Built Environment

PLACE Parks & open space

Look, feel & safety

Getting

around/Transportation

Housing

What’s sold and

how it’s promoted

Air, water, soil

Arts & cultural

expression

Place

People

Equitable

Opportunity

Within the Physical/Built Environment

PLACE

Place

People

Equitable

Opportunity

Design physical

environments to foster

social connection

Within the Social/Cultural Environment

PEOPLE

Social networks & trust

Participation & Willingness

to Act for the Common

Good

Norms & Culture

People

Place Equitable

Opportunity

Within the Social/Cultural Environment

PEOPLE People

Place Equitable

Opportunity

Implement strategies to shift

community social norms,

including around narrow

definitions of masculinity and

mental health

Within the Economic/Educational Environment

EQUITABLE OPPORTUNITY

Living Wages & Local

Wealth

Education

People

Place Equitable

Opportunity

Within the Economic/Educational Environment

EQUITABLE OPPORTUNITY

People

Place Equitable

Opportunity

Provide job training,

employment support, and

placement services for

veterans, formerly

incarcerated individuals,

individuals with a mental

illness and chronically

unemployed men

Development of Public Space

The Healing Generations Project

Salinas, CA

La Cultura Cura is a transformative ‘health and healing’ philosophy,

which recognizes that within individual, family and community

cultural values/traditions/indigenous practices, exists the path to

healthy development, restoration, and lifelong well-being. National Compadres Network

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Veterans Sustainable Agriculture

Training Program

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VSAT passes on agricultural knowledge to veterans to not only

provide healing through farming but also to support them in starting

their own agricultural enterprises.

Making Connections for Mental Wellbeing

Among Men and Boys in the U.S

How to Apply

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Making Connections Initiative

The overarching goal of this initiative is to improve the mental health and wellbeing of men and boys in the

United States.

Making Connections Initiative

This initiative emphasizes community-level strategies and underscores the importance of

mental health and social connection and their link with community

wellbeing and resilience.

Making Connections Initiative

Prioritizes those who have a particularly high

need for community-level attention to mental

wellbeing, such as military/veteran

communities/families and boys and men of color

and their families.

Through this funding announcement, Prevention

Institute and the Movember Foundation are

seeking to select up to 10 communities to be part

of this initiative.

Making Connections Initiative

Community of Practice

Meet regularly

Share lessons, challenges, successes

Help each other solve problems

Inform tools to advance the field

Making Connections

In Year 1, the selected community sites will go

through a strategic planning process with technical

assistance provided by Prevention Institute.

Sites that fully participate with technical assistance

and develop an actionable prevention plan will be

eligible to receive implementation grants for a

period of 2-4 additional years.

How to Apply

This is a two-step application process:

Organizations must submit a Letter of Interest (LOI) by June 12, 2015

Based on individual and composite criteria, invitations will be extended to select applicants, who will respond with submission of Proposal Application

How to Apply

Letter of Interest (LOI) due June 12, 2015

Completed Making Connections coversheet

No more than 3 pages in length

Responds to Funding Announcement

Brief description of need

Brief description of what you want to accomplish

Applicant’s capacity to accomplish the work

Amount requested

Individual Selection Criteria

Understanding of initiative intent

Selection of appropriate population of focus

Well defined goals, objectives and activities

Willingness and capacity to engage in a planning process,

including with appropriate partners

Ability to engage multiple sectors in planning and implementation

Capacity to effectively carry-out the work

Ability to harness community leadership

Willingness to participate in a learning collaborative

Readiness to participate in individual site and collective

evaluation

Composite Selection Criteria

Geographic location

Population of focus

Stage of readiness for planning and

implementing community-level strategies

Among qualified applicants, sites will be selected to

assure a diverse group of sites with respect to the

following criteria:

Deadline for Letter of Interest June 12, 2015 at 5pm PT

Invitations to submit full

Proposal Application sent to

selected applicants based on LOI

July 2, 2015

Deadline for full Proposal

Applications August 3, 2015

Application review interviews

scheduled with top respondents August 17 – 20, 2015

Projects expected to begin Mid September 2015

Important Dates to Remember

Correspondence and Questions

All correspondence and questions relating to this call are to be submitted to MakingConnections@preventioninstitute.org.

As appropriate, questions that are submitted will be posted with responses on the Making Connections for Mental Wellbeing FAQ page of the Prevention Institute website www.preventioninstitute.org.

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New Funding Opportunity: Improving the Mental Health and Wellbeing

of U.S. Men and Boys