Carrying Out Your Project

Introduction

Once you have finished planning your mental health promotion project, and you have gathered the resources you will need, you are ready to carry out your project.

Each mental health promotion project is uniquely designed to respond to the reality of a particular community at a certain point in time. The activities you have planned for your project will reflect both the mental health issue you have chosen to focus on and the strategy you have selected to address that issue.

Because each initiative will be unique, there really isn’t a standard set of activities that you should consider implementing in your project. Rather, there are a few key areas that you should keep in mind during the implementation stage:

• generating and maintaining the commitment of the community,

• keeping track of the day-to-day operations of the project, including, recording meetings, and getting feedback from participants;

• dealing with the unexpected, e.g. problem solving issues that may arise;

In this chapter, we look at each of those areas in a little more detail, and we provide tips and tools that will help to making your mental health promotion project a success.

4.1 Generating And Sustaining Commitment >

Acknowledgements

Developed with the support and help of the Mental Health Promotion Unit of Health Canada.