Make your mark on global mental health by getting involved in the Movement. The first way to contribute to the Movement is to actively promote global mental health in your daily life, whether through service delivery, policy, research, user involvement, human rights or advocacy.

The next step is to join the Movement and share your activities and knowledge about global mental health with other members, using this website. This can be done by joining the Movement, setting up a profile, and telling us about your activities, using the easy online submission forms.

How to contribute

Members can contribute to the Movement in numerous ways. For example, you can:

• Add new content to the site by submitting key resources, announce events, share information about funding opportunities, disseminate activities, submit photographs, and network.
• Become a website content editor
• Join the Newsletter development team
• Join and assist the Secretariat: If you are interested in getting involved with some of the planning and coordination of the Movement activities

Contact the Secretariat if you want to discuss how you can contribute to the Movement.

Examples

All activities of the Movement have been based on the dedication of members who have volunteered their time.  Members have used various strategies to get involved, while also benefiting from these activities. Examples of member involvement include:

• Participating in the MGMH Summit Working Group
• Joining the MGMH website development team
• Including the Movement as a primary dissemination strategy on a grant proposal to secure funding towards the design and development of the website
• Submitting grant proposals to provide bursaries for members from low-income countries to attend the Global Mental Health Summits