In the Center’s efforts to promote health and well-being, we focus not only on what goes wrong but also what goes right. Why are people in some communities healthier than others? How can communities restructure their policies, resource decisions, resource access, education, and social groups to create environments of well-being? In the face of powerful ordinary stressors and occasional extraordinary stressors, what can individuals and the people around them do to foster the resources and abilities to adapt – for the betterment of their mental and physical health?
Across the Center, we bring expertise in designing interventions centered on resilience and in measuring outcomes like positive mental health. Without this approach, you can miss the most powerful and enduring levers of well-being.
Promoting resilience, fostering well-being
Topics
- Stress and resilience
- Positive mental health
- Stigma reduction
- Sexual health
- Substance use and mental health
Populations
- Children and adolescents
- Youth whose biological parents can’t care for them
- Sexual and gender minorities
- Populations facing discrimination
- Clergy and caregivers
Methods
- Intervention design
- Implementation science and scale-up
- Translating to policy
- Intersection of physical and mental health
- Biomarker data collection
- Foundation proposal writing