The Hope and Healing Project is a new, five-year project that officially started in April 2025. It's a community-led social action and system change project building on decades of work and extensive learning from communities, organisations, and practitioners about what it means to make long-term, sustainable differences to people's lives.
We know that being seen and heard is a mental health intervention. We will work with communities to hear their stories, to make sense of their experiences and have their voices heard by people with power about what needs to change.
We will create learning networks for professionals and activists to build trust and mutual support – reducing feelings of isolation, shame and hopelessness that working to create change can bring.
We will listen deeply to stories across all layers of the system, sharing the learning via national campaigns to start a conversation about how we create and sustain hope that things can be different, and enable communities to heal from trauma and thrive. We are embarking on a five-year project to deepen and scale existing work, bring together a network of organisations and build meaningful collaboration with communities to create long-lasting, transformational change in how people understand and respond to distress both at a human and policy intervention level.
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We work with people experiencing challenges with their mental health, and with communities who want to create a greater sense of wellbeing in the places that they live. Through our projects, we work with thousands of people each year.
We believe that long-lasting wellbeing comes about by understanding how lives can be shaped by traumatic experiences, identifying people's strengths and focussing on healing. We know we can't 'fix' people, but we can walk alongside people and help where we can on their journey.
We try hard to make Platfform a great place to work, we live our values and mission in everything that we do.