Community Initiated Care: transforming the mental health and addiction workforce 

Well Being Trust is working with Harvard Medical School to develop a national plan for scaling up community-based models of care that enable and empower individuals in communities to learn how to prevent and respond in a timely and effective manner to mental health and substance use concerns. The Community Initiated Care effort is intended to promote population mental health and well-being, reduce historic and emerging disparities, prevent mental health issues through scaling up evidence-based interventions, and build a new type of mental health workforce in communities throughout the United States.
In this video, Benjamin Miller, PsyD, President, Well Being Trust; Vikram Patel, PhD, MB, Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Shekhar Saxena, MD, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and John Nashlund, PhD, Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard School share details about Community Initiated Care and building skills to improve mental health.