“Not acknowledging that millions are dealing with mental health conditions is costing an enormous amount both in terms of dollars and cents and, more importantly, people's lives."
Arianna Huffington
Mental Health at Work Mini-Conference, May 2018
"I personally would like to thank Mind Share Partners for all of your support of this ERG and community from the very beginning when we were unsure, driven, and quite a bit scared on launching something that would make us so vulnerable. You provided resources and insight that gave us direction, hope, and reminded us that what we were creating would matter to our peers. To which, you were right. I'm thankful for Mind Share Partners, what you stand for and all that you're creating in this new area of diversity, inclusion, and belonging."
"After the Mind Share Partners conference, we created our own Mental Health Fund, since our health insurance excludes it, and talked about it so our team knew we had their back and they'd be covered for emergency care for suicidal thoughts, etc.
It's a start. Stigma runs deep. It's good that [Mind Share Partners] is helping workplaces talk about it!"
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Chris Underhill is a serial social entrepreneur who works to bring new concepts of social change into being. He is an expert in global health and rehabilitation systems, runs his own mentoring practice, and is the UK Board Chair of the International Centre for Social Franchising. His latest organization, mhNOW: |citiesRISE, is a multi-stakeholder initiative designed to promote mental health by catalyzing collective actions across sectors. This follows on from his most recent organization, BasicNeeds, which he founded in 2000 to deliver a holistic model for mental health in the world’s most disadvantaged countries. Recognized as a significant innovation in community mental health care delivery, the Model combines medical, social, economic and personal aspects into one program and has benefited more than 697,000 people. In the last ten years Chris, has developed programs in China, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Sudan.
Chris is an Ashoka Senior Fellow, a Skoll Awardee for Social Entrepreneurship, a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur, and was awarded an MBE from Her Majesty the Queen for services to disability and development.
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CHRIS UNDERHILL
Advisor