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Project

MMHA Strategy Map

Client

Maternal Mental Health Alliance

Vision

For every mum and family in the UK to have access to the mental health support they need before, during and after pregnancy

The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) is a UK charity and network of 130 organisations, dedicated to ensuring women and families affected by perinatal mental health problems have access to high-quality, compassionate care.

The client approached me with an idea to visualise their strategy in the form of an ‘Amusement Park’ style map, where there would be different areas relating to their four pillars.

It was an absolute joy to bring this idea to life visually – to make the strategy fun and engaging without diminishing it’s importance or making it feel silly or trivial.

The concept pulls together over-arching themes and objectives derived from a lengthy strategy document, and distills them down into clear and ‘easily to understand’ illustrations. These combine to form the basis of the map which is populated to reflect the diverse range of women and families receiving support from MMHA.

Illustration of Maternal Mental Health Alliance strategy map
Illustration of Maternal Mental Health Alliance strategy map

Each pillar/area is of equal importance, so there isn’t a designated route, or a particular order in which to journey around the map.

The colours used are derived from the existing MMHA brand palette.

Close up from Illustration of Maternal Mental Health Alliance strategy map - Reaching all women
Close up from Illustration of Maternal Mental Health Alliance strategy map - Raising awareness
Close up from Illustration of Maternal Mental Health Alliance strategy map - Excellent services
Close up from Illustration of Maternal Mental Health Alliance strategy map - Listening to women

For flexibility and to gain more value from the illustrations

As well as the full map illustration, the individual areas can be used separately to highlight and help describe each of the Strategy pillars.

The illustrations are being used for presentations and on the client’s website & social media channels.

Process

Below: My initial sketch

Initial sketch for Illustration of Maternal Mental Health Alliance strategy map

You’ve done such a fantastic job bringing the strategy to life on a page – I have no idea how you managed this, but it’s brilliant

Laura Seebohm

Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA)

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