3. A common agenda is required to improve mental health status and overall well-being of all peoples in Canada.

5. Leaders are needed to initiate and continually commit to a cultural shift in the health promotion workforce to promote mental health.

4. Various interventions can be integrated and implemented to address and amplify mental health promotion.

1. Mental health promotion is a process aimed at empowering individuals control over their well-being and mental health through interventions focused on improving coping mechanisms, self-esteem, and social supports.

2. Various facilitators and barriers exist in implementing and integrating mental health into health promotion.

A collective endeavour, mental health promotion necessitates everyone to play a role in shifting the culture toward promoting mental health and well-being.

Core facilitators include understanding mental health in a destigmatizing, positive way, focusing on meaningful engagement and participatory practice, centering a strengths-based approach, and intersectoral exchange. Barriers include mental health stigma, siloed ideas of physical and mental health, and misconceptions of mental health.

This common agenda can be informed through the ongoing monitoring of mental health of populations, culturally competent mental health interventions, collaboration and intersectoral exchange, and community engagement.

These interventions oversee a range in scope of practice covering the community-level to provincial-level to the course of the lifespan.

Leaders understand that sheer knowledge is insufficient for the cause and that leadership skills, impact, influence, and mentorship are key in the process of this cultural shift.