This project aims to influence community infrastructure to support the application of a gender and mental wellbeing lens over health priority areas, for improved mental wellbeing in the Southern Metropolitan Region. On 28 November, 2023, WHISE ran a forum with health planners from the 10 local government areas within the Southern Metropolitan Region. The aim was to identify synergies between mental health promotion and gender transformative practice in the municipal health and wellbeing plans. This report details the evaluation results from this forum.

Key points:

  • Increased understanding of legislative obligations: The forum significantly improved participants’ understanding of legislative obligations and requirements for local governments to address gender transformative mental health promotion. Pre-forum understanding was predominantly low to neutral, which increased to high and very high post-forum.
  • Enhanced knowledge of existing frameworks and policies: There was a notable increase in participants’ understanding of existing frameworks and policies that enable mental health promotion and activities. Post-forum, all participants rated their understanding as high or very high.
  • Overall improvement in understanding: The forum effectively increased participants’ understanding across multiple measures, such as the determinants of mental wellbeing and opportunities to integrate gender transformative mental health promotion in local government settings, demonstrating the forum’s success in enhancing knowledge and confidence.

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