Super excited to see more interest in this space, and people starting things in general, kudos!
Have you talked with the people working on Mind Ease and/or Canopie? (As far as I understand, Canopie was originally a Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charity, then became a for-profit). Also might be interesting to talk with the people that worked on hippo.
Yep, and I might still do that, but I suspect what I have in mind isn’t a good fit for the reasons mentioned in the post.
Curious about what resource specifically you have in mind!
I think resources for family/best friends/employers of mentally ill folks is a neglected space. You have a group of people who are extremely incentivised to help (maybe employers less so), have the opportunity for a high marginal impact, but who in my experience usually have no idea what they’re doing.
I’m also attracted to potential knock-on benefits from something like this to how mental health is discussed more generally, which I’d currently characterize as at best well-intentioned but pretty poor (and far worse than that in some areas of the world).
Here’s something with a different focus (training a more general ‘first line of defence’ support network at a university), but that shares some features with what I have in mind: https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/welfare/peersupport .
I had not noticed that those aren’t the same, thank you for correcting me! And I agree that applying to it makes a lot more sense than applying to the incubation program.
Super excited to see more interest in this space, and people starting things in general, kudos!
Have you talked with the people working on Mind Ease and/or Canopie? (As far as I understand, Canopie was originally a Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charity, then became a for-profit).
Also might be interesting to talk with the people that worked on hippo.
Did you consider applying to Charity Entrepreneurship career coaching?
Curious about what resource specifically you have in mind!
Yep, and I might still do that, but I suspect what I have in mind isn’t a good fit for the reasons mentioned in the post.
I think resources for family/best friends/employers of mentally ill folks is a neglected space. You have a group of people who are extremely incentivised to help (maybe employers less so), have the opportunity for a high marginal impact, but who in my experience usually have no idea what they’re doing.
I’m also attracted to potential knock-on benefits from something like this to how mental health is discussed more generally, which I’d currently characterize as at best well-intentioned but pretty poor (and far worse than that in some areas of the world).
Here’s something with a different focus (training a more general ‘first line of defence’ support network at a university), but that shares some features with what I have in mind: https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/welfare/peersupport .
Thanks for the concrete company recommendations!
The career coaching seems different from the incubation program, as far as I can tell your points apply mostly to the latter, right?
I had not noticed that those aren’t the same, thank you for correcting me! And I agree that applying to it makes a lot more sense than applying to the incubation program.