The International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) brings together and connects mental health leaders to help spread innovation and best practice to improve mental health and addiction services around the globe. They create the space for people to share their leadership experiences and insights to help find solutions and ideas to overcome challenges and improve people’s lives.
- A Global Network: members have access to a knowledgeable global community of mental health leaders, professionals, experts and ambassadors for change.
- A Support System: members design and create their own networks within our global community, ensuring unique perspectives, best practices and learning is shared openly.
- A Creative and Safe Space: IIMHL has developed mechanisms to support members to convene and connect to promote innovation and best practice, cultivate ideas and find positive solutions.
- People-focused: members support themselves and each other to find and learn new ways of improving the mental health and well-being of citizens.
- Leadership Exchange: the Leadership Exchange is a week-long learning event which is held every two years including regional events, virtual sessions and a range of other ways of connecting members easily across the globe.
- Knowledge transfer among IIMHL countries through the Leadership and Regional Exchanges
- Promotion: the promotion of workshops, training, education & research
- Learning collaboratives
- Information dissemination
IIMHL encourage each leader to make the most of their learning experience by continuing connections and discussions in the months between the Exchanges. The intent is that the benefits of such a collaborative effort will cascade down to all staff and service users. Potential avenues for collaboration include:
- Joint programmes and service development
- Staff exchanges and sabbaticals
- Collaborative service evaluation
- Managerial, operational and clinical knowledge sharing
- Research
- Peer consultation
Organisation
Email: steve@iimhl.com
