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When people are struggling with their mental health, they often turn to their friends or loved ones for support. This idea allows communities to come together in a safe space with computer and internet access, to utilise two digital tools to collectively empower and up-skill. Learn how you can A.S.K. and earn your #BeThereCertificate, to support the mental health of your loved ones and community.

Communities need connection and tools to kindly, safely, and knowledgeably support their own and loved ones’ mental health.

This idea encourages you to gather as a local community, and upskill through two key tools:

  • Learn how to ‘A.S.K.'
  • The Be There Certificate

What is 'A.S.K.'?

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Communities need connection and tools to kindly, safely, and knowledgeably support their own and loved ones’ mental health.

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Join the communities already benefitting from starting a Mental Health Community Connect

You'll get guides and resources on how to bring this idea to life.

There is no funding available for this idea in Brazil, but these resources will still help to make your project happen!

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This course was an easy-to-use, straight forward and interactive way to further strengthen how I can be there for my loved ones! I'm thankful to have access to a tool like this and recommend it to anyone who also wants to learn how to support thei...

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Mental Health Community Connect
Angelica Buccini - Youth Mental Health Advocate

How to start a project on ChangeX

  • 1

    Create your project page

    Click the green start button to register and set up your project page. It’s quick, free and easy.

  • 2

    Complete a 30 Day Challenge

    Complete simple steps in 30 days to get your project off the ground.

  • 3

    Activate your project

    Follow the 5 Step Guide and your action plan to bring the project to life.

  • 4

    Share impact

    Share impact by posting a summary and photos and completing a survey.

Great for

  • someone who wants to champion mental health in their community
  • someone who wants to gather their community around a cause
  • someone who wants to facilitate the upskilling of their community with tools to tackle mental health

Mental Health Community Connect project essentials

5 Step Guide

  • Plan your gathering
  • Invite your community
  • Host the event
  • Follow up with attendees
  • Keep up the momentum

Time

Suggested: It'll take a few hours to plan your community event, a further few hours to get the word out there and invite attendees, and we recommend hosting your community event over half a day (e.g. a morning or afternoon).

Resources

More information on how to get started and any resources shared by the Mental Health Community Connect

67 Mental Health Community Connect projects have already been started

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Meet the Social Innovator

When people are struggling with their mental health, they often turn to their friends or loved ones for support. This idea allows communities to come together and utilise two digital tools, to collectively empower and up-skill. Learn how you can #BeThere and A.S.K, to support the mental health of your community.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Why a 30 day challenge?

    The 30 Day Challenge was developed by our Team based on our experience working with communities. We’ve learned that the first weeks are critical to build momentum and get off to a good start with any community project. Teams who complete these steps within the first month are much more likely to successfully complete their project!

    The Challenge is a series of simple steps that each applicant has to complete to get their project off the ground and unlock funding, if there is funding currently available for that idea in your region. Steps include watching a video and/or reading content, having a call with a ChangeX team member, forming a team so that you have support, having your first team meeting, sharing a team photo, and sharing a project action plan.

  • What can funding be used for?

    Once funding is received it can be used to cover direct set-up costs of the new community project. For example space rental, insurance fees, seeds and planting materials, tools, training fees; pretty much any materials you might need for a project that benefits your community.

    Funds cannot be used for the costs of work that has already been carried out, costs unrelated to the setup and maintenance of the new project, payments to group members for their work on the project. Funds can’t be used for the promotion of religious causes, non-charitable activities, sponsorship or fundraising events. Please read the terms and conditions for further details.

  • How do I know if there is funding available?

    On idea pages, if there is funding available for the idea in your region you will see “Funding available” and the region listed in the turquoise box. When you first login you will also see a green banner at the top of the screen saying “live funds near you” if there is funding available in your region. The ChangeX homepage will feature those live funds near you.

    A note on the waitlist: when all the funding has been allocated to applicants, new applicants will go on a waitlist. If some applicants that are in the fund don’t successfully complete the 30 Day Challenge their funding will be released and can be then allocated to those on the waitlist. To see if you are going on a waitlist check the main fund page, ideas fully allocated will have the note “Join the waitlist” instead of “Apply to start”.

  • What is ChangeX?

    ChangeX is a platform that connects communities to proven ideas and funding.

    By empowering local changemakers with proven ideas from social innovators and accessible funding from our partners, we aim to build healthier, more inclusive and sustainable communities. Our work is aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and together with our partners, we aim to impact 1 billion people globally by 2030.

    • Communities: Get the funding, resources and support you need to start impactful projects in your community.
    • Social innovators: Connect with local changemakers, access funding to scale your idea, and impact more communities globally.
    • Funders: Fund the themes and regions they care most about, with measurable impact, and at global scale.

    We believe that by bringing the best social innovations and the world’s changemakers together in a shared community, we can accelerate the spread of innovations across the world and have a bigger impact. Together we aim to unleash the potential of changemakers by enabling collaboration, by sharing knowledge and resources, by connecting changemakers across different disciplines and innovations and by opening up access to the world’s best proven social innovations to everyone.

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