Good mental health leadership
Leadership should take all aspects of mental health into account. Mental health action is led and managed in a systematic manner across administrative sectors.
- Leadership adapts organisations and their activities towards topical issues and economic actualities affecting mental health preparing them for future challenges.
- Management is based on current knowledge and technology.
- The availability of knowledge from topical and preventative research is safeguarded.
- The most suitable indicators are used to inform leadership and management.
- The Mental Health Strategy is regularly evaluated and focal points are reformulated as necessary.
What?
Leadership should take all aspects of mental health into account. Mental health action is led and managed in a systematic manner across administrative sectors.
Why?
Quantitative data is necessary to confirm successful implementation. A large-scale national dissemination of evidence based psychosocial interventions necessitates a new approach to data collection to confirm equal access to and quality of treatment. Numeric data will support implementation of mental health promoting operational models.
How?
Ongoing: Implementation of operational codes for mental health and substance use services in health care and social services. Collaborative work to create measures and tools for collection of numeric data from mental health promotion.
https://blogi.thl.fi/tools-for-follow-up-a-core-of-successful-implementation/
Learning from implementation science and building structures and skills for national implementation of evidence-based interventions is being supported in collaboration with Itla and stakeholders. This includes training leaders of social and welfare services, online materials, and coordinating roles between services providers and training providers (wellbeing services counties, university clinics, THL, ministry of social and health services).
