This project focuses on the ways in which communities find things that, at the local level, provide support to people with a mental illness. In understanding this, the project explored how communities are resilient and how resilience can be further developed. The project focused on regional and rural communities. The paucity of mental health services facing consumers and carers makes investment in community-based services all the more critical. The work presented in this research report offers a strong guide to how to carry these broad ambitions forward in a practical and effective way. The key findings confirm a central message that healthy communities don’t rely on health services. In many regional areas, these services are so rare that they can’t form an integral part of the fabric of regional communities. Instead, these communities are drawing inspiration from local leadership who seem to have a catalytic ability to draw together people and resources to make good things happen and, in the process, contribute to their community’s mental health.