The Mental Wellness Initiative (MWI) brings together health and mental wellness, development and systems practitioners to deliver mental wellness as an urgent response to COVID-19 in South Africa. MWI addresses urgent short-term needs for psychosocial intervention and builds long-term capacity for a social ecology approach to mental wellness interventions; strengthens resilience to deal with pre-existing conditions and future barriers to sustainable development and provides a conduit for adaptive learning as well as responsive and effective healthcare across the sector. MWI will lead advocacy and thought leadership to shift the national conversation concerning mental wellness, to normalize and institutionalize mental wellness as core to South Africa’s development and transformation activities. This will result in mental wellness being leveraged as an imperative in the drive to achieve the objectives of the SDGs as reflected in the National Development Plan (NDP).
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