PERMAH Community Evaluation

The globally renowned PERMAH Wellbeing Tool is a powerful instrument used by organisations around the world to make navigating the complexities of supporting mental health and wellbeing in the workplace easier.

More than 180,500 PERMAH Tool surveys have been completed across over 1,310 workplaces in 145 countries, and eighty-three percent of survey users report that they would recommend the tool to other workplaces.

Why is the PERMAH Tool so popular? Everything—from the PERMAH Tool questions and results insights to the reports, guides, and additional resources—has been designed through an evidence-informed and strengths-based lens. This approach both normalises struggle and, importantly, provides users with a highly effective and flexible evidence-based wellbeing toolbox, ready to use. Completely confidential and taking less than five minutes to complete, the PERMAH Tool for Communities provides:

For community members…

• An immediate, easy-to-understand “Wellbeing Insights Results Report” with coaching questions to guide them through their findings.
• The option to create a personalised “Wellbeing Plan” from more than 200 evidence-based wellbeing nudges, if they wish, and a "Wellbeing Guide" to ensure their success.

For community leaders…

• A de-identified “Community Wellbeing Insights Results Report” with actionable insights for their community at the individual (“Me” Level), family (“We” Level), and community (“Us” Level), along with coaching questions to guide community sponsors and leaders through the findings.
• A step-by-step “Community Wellbeing Guide and Plan” for leading wellbeing, featuring more than 50 evidence-based community wellbeing activities to try.

The PERMAH Tool for Community measures:

• State of Wellbeing: Know where and for whom to prioritise your wellbeing efforts and investments with this simple but powerful snapshot that shows the levels of thriving and struggle across your community.
• Wellbeing Index: Know where and for whom to prioritise your wellbeing efforts and investments with this simple but powerful snapshot. The wellbeing index provides a measure of subjective wellbeing designed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Think of the index as a pulse-check on how your community members feel about their lives, with the overall score reflecting the average report of happiness, depression, worry, and life satisfaction from the previous day.
• Community Outcomes: Explore your community's levels of wellbeing commitment, community pride, and community satisfaction. These measures reflect how your community feels things are going at an individual, friend and family group, and community level, and the impact this is having on key community outcomes.
• Community Wellbeing Amplifiers: Evaluate the effectiveness of your efforts and investments to help your community care for their wellbeing—their wellbeing ability, motivation, and sense of safety to engage.
• Community PERMAH Wellbeing Factors: Understand the strengths of you community through the lens of the strengths of current community members  at the (“Me”), 'family' unit (“We”), and community (“Us”) levels, their ability to care for wellbeing, and identify the potential risks or gaps that need to be addressed.
• Community Wellbeing Nutrients: Understand the strengths of your community culture in supporting your community's needs for housing, services, physical safety, education, the economy, and the environment, and identify potential risks or gaps that need to be addressed.
• Top Wellbeing Struggles, Top Wellbeing Barriers, Top People Your Community Members Ask for Help From, and Top Valued Forms of Wellbeing Support: Know where and for whom to prioritise your wellbeing efforts and investments.