Financing
The financial resources for mental health are inadequate. This Working Group was established with the aim of increasing and improving mental health finance across the world.
Working Group Co-Chairs
Mathew Mutiso
Executive Director, Coalition for Action for Preventive Mental Health
James Sale
Director of Policy, Advocacy and Financing, United for Global Mental Health
Our Focus
Through regular meetings we aim to:
share and create learning opportunities for Action Network members
facilitate information exchange
develop policy briefings
submit collective statements for political processes
provide technical support.
Our Work
Our join report with the Children & Youth Working Groups, Financing Child, Adolescent and Young People's Mental Health, explores the need for greater investment, the current levels of investment, what great investment can achieve, and what needs to be done to increase and improve investment in child, adolescent and young people's mental health.
Recommended reading: Financing of mental health: the current situation and ways forward
How to join us:
Ensure you are a member of the Global Mental Health Action Network. Sign up here.
Once you’ve signed up, you’ll receive an email inviting you to sign up for our Working Groups and register for our networking platform, Circle. Please use the same email address that you used when registering for the Action Network when submitting the Working Group form.
If you are already a member of the Action Network, sign up for the Working Group using this form.