Measuring Subjective Wellbeing: Integrating regional indicators with national measures Community Indicators Consortium November 2, 2015

Defining Wellbeing 2 Defining health in the broadest possible terms Committing to sustainable systems changes and policy-oriented long-term solutions Cultivating a shared and deeply held belief in the importance of equal opportunity for health Harnessing the collective power of leaders, partners, and community members Securing and making the most of available resources Measuring and sharing progress and results

Improving Wellbeing Use of interventions yielding good outcomes Community capacity yielding good outcomes Activities serving strategies to increase access, quality, demand and policies enabling intervention Catalysts and activities of community dialogue and collective action 3 Results Framework ASR’s 5 Steps to Community Transformation

Improving Wellbeing 4 COMMUNITY RESULT Youth are safe and feel safe at school. (% of students who report being bullied or harassed at school) PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Anti-bullying Strategies # of students participating in anti- bullying strategies Fidelity to the anti- bullying curriculum % of students who report being bullied or harassed at school THEORY OF CHANGE Alignment of Results

Measuring Subjective Wellbeing What prevents us from seeing, measuring and improving wellbeing  Silos: thought, discipline, funding  Lost in strategic interventions, we forget about the real goal  Disbelief that letting go or changing the system will really work Why it matters  Objective data often measures problems not possibilities  Progress is personal  Potential to measure the immeasurable  Potential to prevent unhappiness and unrest 5

Wellbeing –Program Stanislaus County 6

Changing the Mental Health Model 7 Moving from crisis response to a preventative model Moving from mental health to wellbeing  Moving beyond the mind to the whole  Seeing mental health in relation to other domains of wellbeing Education Public Safety Housing Wellbeing Employment  Developing non-traditional interventions Being consumer driven  Becoming less prescriptive and more responsive

Changing the Mental Health Model 8 Raíz Visi o n y Compromiso Raíz Visi o n y Compromiso Raíz Visi o n y Compromiso

Measuring Subjective Wellbeing 9 Measuring the space in between program and population  OECD guidelines for measuring subjective wellbeing  Trying to assess if anyone is better off due to their participation in the programs Using National measures as a lens for insight  National data showed 56% of American were “thriving” 5% “suffering,” an d 39% “struggling” 49 % 2%

Wellbeing- Community Santa Cruz, CA  How satisfied are you with your overall quality of life? 10  How often do you have someone you can turn to when you need help? Number of Suicides by Age Life Satisfaction (Mean)

Wellbeing- Community Santa Cruz, CA 11

Wellbeing – Global Egypt GDP & Wellbeing

Wellbeing: Big data = small data Local Level  Improve local efforts for community impact Holding programs accountable while creating a culture of practice and shared learning Making it easy – NGOs don’t need to be evaluators, we need them to focus on what it is that they do best, we need to find a way for them to evaluate and learn that is intuitive easy and give them ability to compare their efforts with others Measure and recognize the connection between socio-emotional skills and economic development Forces us to see the whole beyond the parts Focus on the end goal Global Perspective  Creates a shared system of understanding  Broadens our focus as funders and policy makers Recognize the importance of mental health and the socio-emotional skills needed for development Empowering communities of all shapes and sizes 13

Concluding Comments NEXT STEPS FOR ACHIEVING WELLBEING FOR ALL

Thank You Susan Brutschy, President Applied Survey Research