Social Inclusion
Social inclusion is central to promoting mental health and minimising the disability associated with mental illness. Social inclusion is about being able to participate in and contribute to all aspects of a society that genuinely includes people living with mental illness; that supports, intervenes and prevents crises; and that does not discriminate or stigmatise. Community-based organisations are well placed to make the principles of social inclusion real within communities.
This MHCC paper summarises the evidence linking community-based strategies with recovery, and the evidence linking social inclusion with positive mental health. In doing so, it places the community in its broadest sense at the heart of each individual’s experience of their own mental health. It articulates the value and place of the non government sector as an integral part of the mental health care landscape in NSW, as well as in the social fabric of community, particularly in relation to its essential role in promoting and enabling social inclusion.
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