Jonathan Mooney
Strategic Advisor, the Wellbeing Project @City Of Santa Monica
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Strategic Advisor, the Wellbeing Project @City Of Santa Monica
Santa Monica, CA, US
The ultimate goal of health measurement, policy, and public health initiatives is to improve the quality of people’s lives through the support of local government. But, until now, government has lacked the information needed to make fully-informed decisions to address real-time challenges and barriers to good health and wellbeing. Furthermore, governments that endeavor to address public health issues have traditionally operated using a very narrow definition of ‘health’ and worked with a very limited set of health-related metrics. Specifically, health has been typically defined as the absence of disease. Subsequently, public health initiatives tend to target specific ills like rates of chronic disease rather than considering the whole spectrum of factors that come into play. Wellbeing measurement, on the other hand, takes traditional health measurements – rates of chronic disease, mental health status, and healthy behaviors – to the next level by considering environmental impacts, subjective wellbeing (happiness), thriving, resilience, social connections, and equity in order to create a fully-formed picture. Good health is more than the absence of disease. It’s also about the presence of individual and community assets that people need to flourish.Through The Wellbeing Project, the City of Santa Monica is becoming the first City government in the world to create a way to genuinely understand the wellbeing of the community members it serves, from cradle to career and beyond, and then use that information to actively help people thrive. We created a framework that allows us to harness the power of data to consider the full range of environmental and societal factors known to influence one’s health and wellbeing. We are then using these data-driven findings to make decisions, allocate resources, and cultivate partnerships to address targeted trends and needs in our community.
EDUCATION
Brown University
Bachelor's degree
ABOUT JONATHAN MOONEY
Background: I\'m a dyslexic writer, speaker, and do-gooder. I hold an honors degree from Brown University, a Harry S. Truman Scholar for Public Service, and was a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship. I\'m keenly interested in any opportunity to share my experience with you- The Divergent Fund:The Divergent Fund is a social that finds, funds, aligns, and supports breakthrough social entrepreneurs with bold ideas to improve life outcomes for neurodivergent individuals and their families by investing deeply in the growth of their ideas and leadership. We identify unmet needs across the continuum of neurodivergence and deploy early-stage capital and support to invent, develop, and fuel solutions that address those needsWe find, fund, and support social entrepreneurs working on big and bold ideas to make the world better for neurodivergent humans in a big way.Author:Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the LinesThe Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal (Henry Holt & Co. 2007) Learning Outside the Lines (Simon & Schuster, Social Entrepreneurship:A serial social entrepreneur, I have created and co-founded several social impact initiatives including:»Eye-To-Eye, a national movement building organization for students with learning and attention differences; the Promo-Pathway, a program to prepare young people for employment in the creativity economy which Vice President Al Gore called “the most innovative training program for 21st-century jobs in the country”; »Streetcraft LA, an interest-based learning network that helps formerly incarcerated young people build an education and life, on their strengths and talents was featured in a Fast Company series on “world-changing ideas and innovation”»The Santa Monica Wellbeing Project, a bold idea for Santa Monica to become the first city in the world to measure wellbeing, was named one of the five most innovative projects in the country by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Keynote Speaking: Presented in all 50 states, and 5 countries, along with numerous universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, and The University of Pennsylvania. Topics: »Inclusion,»Disability rights»Education & Social Impact »Neurodiversity»Education reform»The learning revolution, »Creating college and career pathways for at-risk youth.Media Appearances: Featured and quoted in/on:The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, HBO, NPR, ABC News, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe.
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