1. Increased community involvement and communication | |
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Creating a community of practice | “I really enjoyed the opportunity to partner with friends and colleagues across organisations to co-deliver stuff and work with all different people collectively across Logan.” (P4) “Having done the [WoW training], it helped me step up and actually say, I can do a new thing, I don’t have to copy what has been done in the past. So, I was doing something new that was still evidence-based to work from … For three years we were funded.” (P5) |
Providing an evidence base and structure for wellbeing activities | “It was a chance for people very early in their lives to be exposed to a whole bunch of selfcare, let off a lot of steam and have fun. It was a great organising structure to deliver such a big thing, in quite a strategic way.” (P4) |
Facilitating acceptance, connection, and social inclusion | “Since being introduced to WoW, the view I now have is that, WoW doesn’t look at mental illness, it looks at mental health challenges. Mental health is about good thoughts feelings and behavioural outcomes. WoW gives another perspective by looking at when those outcomes are challenged, without giving all focus to the negatives”. (P3) “But with a WoW focus young people can actually not only just address their own problems and their friends problems but they can actually help and address their own and their friends wellbeing, having influence on their friends wellbeing and yeah, leading by example, being role models. By just pushing a little bit of the WoW content, changing the language around and being more wellbeing then problem focused, it’s a powerful message”. (P7) |