Summary

• Disseminating your results is an essential part of implementing your mental health promotion project. Sharing your results broadly is beneficial to your project in many ways.
  
  
• Community partners should be involved in helping to plan a dissemination strategy early in thelife of the project. You can access the networks of your community partners to help you disseminate your results.
  
  
• You can communicate your results in a variety of ways, according to the background andinterests of your audience. The format and content of your presentation can be adapted, to ensure that it is relevant and appropriate for your audience.
  
  
• The relationships that are created over the course of your mental health promotion project will continue for as long as benefit all the partners involved. In all of the sample projects, many participants continue to contribute time, energy and resources to the project, although the funded, pilot stage has ended.
  
  
• Planning for sustainability is a process that should be a part of the overall planning of the project. Planning is important because it focuses on the set of steps that you will need to go through to reach your ultimate goal, a lasting improvement in people’s mental health.
  
  
• To ensure that your mental health promotion initiative maintains its identity as citizen-guided, rather than service-oriented, affiliate with community organizations that share a community-building orientation.

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