SDM for mental health

Mental health disaster response programs are traditionally reactive and largely focus on encouraging help-seeking behaviours.

However, the evidence for these approaches is lacking in the context of repeat extreme weather events. New knowledge is needed to inform agencies about where, when and how to intervene to optimise community wellbeing.

A digital decision-making tool, using community-based model building, can simulate diverse climate-driven scenarios and identify the most impactful intervention points to improve mental health outcomes. This tool will provide valuable insights to stakeholders to pre-emptively guide more targeted and effective investment to support mental health in communities impacted by natural disasters.