Digital Mental Health Innovation Cluster: The Role of the Third Sector in Supporting the Digital Mental Health Ecosystem

As Scotland’s digital mental health strategy continues to evolve, a critical question emerges: What role does the third sector play in fostering, supporting, and shaping the ecosystem built by this strategy? This event, organised by the Digital Mental Health Innovation Cluster in collaboration with SAMH, aims to explore this vital role, highlighting the contributions, challenges, and opportunities for third-sector organisations in driving forward digital mental health innovation.

Join us for a dynamic discussion that brings together leaders from mental health charities, digital mental health innovators, policymakers, and other key stakeholders to reflect on how the third sector can integrate with the broader digital mental health landscape. We will explore how charities and non-profit's can leverage digital tools, participate in digital policymaking, and deliver person-centred, tech-enabled mental health support to Scotland’s communities.

This event aims to provide a platform for cross-sector collaboration and meaningful dialogue, with the shared goal of enhancing mental health support through digital innovation.

Objectives:

• Understand the third sector’s role in the digital mental health ecosystem.

• Share best practices and successful collaborations between third-sector organisations and digital health initiatives.

• Identify challenges and opportunities for deeper collaboration between the third sector and digital mental health stakeholders.

• Explore future trends and technologies that can enhance third-sector contributions to mental health support.

• Sharing intelligence, inclusion, accessibility, understanding gaps in the landscape

  
  

Key Themes:

• Shaping the Ecosystem: The role of third-sector organisations in influencing and aligning with Scotland's Digital Mental Health Strategy.

• Innovation & Integration: How third-sector initiatives can integrate with digital health solutions to offer more personalised, scalable, and accessible mental health services.

• Challenges and Opportunities: Addressing gaps in funding, digital literacy, and access to technology within third-sector organisations.

• Collaboration: How third-sector organisations, public health bodies, and digital innovators can work together to ensure that mental health care reaches all who need it 

  
  

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