This document introduces the ACMHI Mentally Healthy Campus Maturity Model, which was created to help post-secondary institutions collaboratively improve mental health and wellness on campuses. The maturity model visualizes capabilities and development in three stages with five levels to focus efforts on complex systemic challenges. It can be used by individual institutions to assess themselves or collectively to identify gaps and overlaps between organizations. The model addresses four dimensions in increasing detail levels from basic to advanced. The goal is to facilitate shared understanding and conversations between institutions to inform decisions and progress towards the shared vision of mentally healthy campuses.

1. Systemic Maturity Models and
Multi-organization Collaborations:
ACMHI Mentally Healthy Campus Maturity Model
Sharon Matthias | Innovation Platform
Jess McMullin | Situ Strategy
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2. Backstory
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• ACMHI = Alberta Campus
Mental Health Innovation
• 4 yrs. Funding from AB Gov’t
• Student Associations in
14 small - midsize colleges,
universities and polytechnics
• Legacy tools created by mining
Innovation projects

3. • Long view as well as short
• Strategic cohort – ROI to
society
• Society and personal benefit –
habits and norms in PS are
carried through life –
workplaces, families and
communities benefit
• Helping students grow their
mental wellness capabilities
• Disruptive thinking yields
value for all PSI players and
policy makers
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Value Proposition : Post Secondary Students

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Systemic Learning Evaluation for
Legacy Tools
- If they were doing what they did purposefully,
what would they have been assuming?
/ what program model would they have been using?
—> Tools so others “stand on their shoulders”
3 Core Requirements
-Based in Student Experience
-Dual continua model of mental wellness
-Mentally Healthy Campus

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Mentally Healthy Campus
as complex adaptive system

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ACMHI Legacy Tools
-Emergent Program Model / Strategy
-Student Academic Journey Map, Wellness Journey Map
-Mentally Healthy Campus Developmental Maturity Model
-Evaluation & Learning Framework

7. What is a Mentally Healthy Campus?
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Key Implication - MHC = place of learning, workplace, community asset.
Students, Student Associations as both beneficiaries AND contributors

8. The Challenge
‣ Tackling complex systems challenges like integrated
mental wellness and mental disorders requires a
host of factors (and organizations) to work together.
‣ However, this holistic view can be paralyzing: Which
factors? How do we know how we’re doing, who
should do it, and what should we do next?
‣ A maturity model can help focus efforts in complex
systems challenges.
‣ A developmental maturity model visualizes the need
for both growth and development.
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Progress Vs The Mirage of Perfection

10. Maturity Model - What it is
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• Capabilities to Create the Desired Change with increasing Discipli
• 3 Developmental Stages - 5 levels of maturity within each

11. M.H.Campus Maturity Model Quadrants -
Basic Level
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12. Multi-organization & Multi-professional
Collaborations
‣ Shared understanding of key dimensions
‣ Vehicle for shared conversations
‣ Overlay individual profiles —> Collective map
‣ Sharing the collective map helps to make
informed decisions about your particular
contribution to progress towards a shared
aspiration - see gaps and overlaps
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13. Dimensions - Detailed Level

14. Dimensions & Levels - Advanced
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15. Adjacent Possible
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16. Emergent Strategy
The opportunities for your vision, direction, and planning emerge from the
opportunities in your adjacent possibilities.

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Thank You! Questions?
Sharon Matthias,
Innovation Platform: for Flourishing Societies
sharon@InnovationPlatform.com
Jess McMullin,
Situ Strategy , Centre for Citizen Experience
jess@situ.org