title: Enterprising social wellbeing: social entrepreneurial and strengths based approaches to mental health and wellbeing in "remote" Indigenous community contexts.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Social enterprises are market-based activities that provide social benefits through the direct engagement of people in productive activities. Participation in social enterprise development brings psychosocial wellbeing benefits, by strengthening family networks, enhancing trust, increasing self-reliance and social esteem and promoting cultural safety. Our objective is to explore how social enterprise activities can meet community needs and foster self-sustainability while generating profits for redistribution as social investment into other ventures that aid social functioning and emotional well-being.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Social entrepreneurship enhances both interdependence and independence. Concomitant mental health and social wellbeing dividends accrue overtime to communities engaged in self-determined enterprise activities. Social entrepreneurship builds social capital that supports social wellbeing. Strengths-based approaches to social entrepreneurship can assuage disempowering effects of the "welfare economy" through shifting the focus onto productive activities generated on people's own terms.
authors: School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Magill Campus, SA, Australia. deirdre.tedmanson@unisa.edu.au
authors: Deirdre
authors: D
authors: Tedmanson
authors: Pauline
authors: P
authors: Guerin
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016520:Entrepreneurship / Q000191:economics; D008603:Mental Health / Q000191:economics; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D017149:Private Sector / Q000191:economics; D012424:Rural Population; D058012:Small Business / Q000191:economics; D012944:Social Support; D000081034:Indigenous Peoples