BHC OFFERINGS
We are in the business of connecting all things brain and mental health: people to people, people to issue areas, organizations to governmental priorities, issue areas to issue areas.
AT BHC, WE ARE MAKING THE CONNECTIONS THAT MATTER IN BRAIN AND MENTAL HEALTH
BHC helps organizations strengthen their role in global mental health.
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Strategy & Positioning — clarifying priorities and identifying opportunities for impact in the global policy landscape (WHA, UNGA, Davos, Global Ministerial Summit, G7/G20).
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Partnerships & Coalitions — building connections across civil society, private sector, and government stakeholders to advance shared goals.
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Program & Project Delivery — from grant development to implementation support, with experience spanning youth mental health service models, advocacy campaigns, and multistakeholder initiatives.
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Policy & Advocacy Support — advising on narratives, frameworks, and messaging that resonate across global health platforms.
Designing meaningful, respectful engagements with PWLE.
Guided by our own experience of mental ill-health and our global network of peers within global mental health advocacy, we’ve created an offering on how best to engage people with lived experience in policies, programs, and research that affects them.
Many organizations – in particular those focused on mental health – have an interest in understanding the perspectives of those they serve. In global mental health, this group is called “people with lived experience” (PWLE) of mental ill-health (or mental illness or brain illness).
The problem is that organizations often operate with no real knowledge, resulting in an unintentionally transactional approach focused on box-ticking rather than creating respectful, meaningful engagement opportunities.
As a result, they push their organizations further away from PWLE, rather than closer to them. They end up exacerbating the problem they’re trying to solve.
BHC offers trainings based on a set of principles, tactics, and strategies for successful lived experience engagement. These trainings are aligned with the WHO framework for meaningful engagement of people living with noncommunicable diseases, and mental health and neurological conditions, and tailored to your needs. They are designed to meet compliance and ethical requirements in developing policies, programs, and even therapeutics focused on mental ill-health.