Creating a Mentally Healthy City strategy
The Creating a Mentally Healthy City strategy has been created to support the strategic direction of the Creating a Mentally Healthy City Forum.
The strategy will be delivered with two strands:
We have prepared different formats of the strategy:
- Creating a Mentally Healthy City strategy - full version
- Creating a Mentally Healthy City strategy - one page summary
- Creating a Mentally Healthy City strategy - animated video
Creating a Mentally Healthy City ambition statement
We are committed to building a city where everyone, of all ages and from all communities, has the support and resources to maintain good mental health and wellbeing and cope with life’s challenges.
We will work with citizens and partners to create a place where mental health and wellbeing are a priority, and no one faces mental health and wellbeing struggles alone.
Together, we will work towards zero deaths from suicide and zero admissions for self-harm.
Developing the strategy
Our approach to developing the strategy and priorities has combined published research with community and stakeholder engagement.
We have a series of reports that informed the development of the strategy, and will be updated in due course.
We encourage people to use the findings from this research and community engagement to support initiatives that promote positive mental health and wellbeing.
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Report name |
Purpose |
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Summarise factors that help and hinder our mental health and wellbeing. |
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Mental Health and Wellbeing Needs Assessment |
Summarise the mental health and wellbeing needs of our citizens in Birmingham and provide insight into effective public health interventions. |
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Community engagement report |
Summarise the findings from our community engagement events, delivered by our partner ICE Creates. |
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Citizen survey report |
Summarise the findings from our citizen survey to provide community insight. |
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Strategic context and need |
Provide a strategic view of why we have created a Public Mental Health Strategy. |
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Suicide Prevention Literature Review |
Summarise some of the factors that may lead someone to enter crisis and the successful suicide prevention public health interventions. |
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Deaths by Suicide - Coronial Audit |
An investigation to better understand the lives of people who have tragically died by suicide in Birmingham from 2017 to 2021. |
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Consultation summary report |
A summary of the findings of the public consultation (March to May 2025). |
Page last updated: 12 May 2026
