WHAT WE DO
AFF Missions SCIO — addressing foundations of fairness — works upstream and midstream to prevent harm before it escalates. We address the conditions that shape wellbeing and the systems people must navigate, ensuring prevention is embedded early, equitably, and sustainably.
Upstream Action
Addressing the foundations of fairness
We work upstream to reduce the social, economic, and cultural conditions that drive stress, stigma, exclusion, and preventable harm.
This includes reshaping narratives, tackling structural pressures, and supporting environments that enable dignity, wellbeing, and fairness.
Linked initiatives:
THiMO • BuSE
Midstream Action
Improving systems and everyday experiences
We work midstream to improve how systems operate and are experienced — focusing on access, interaction, and the points where harm is often felt first.
Our work supports systems to be more humane, navigable, and responsive, reducing escalation into crisis.
Linked initiatives:
AoIn • AIHS
Community
Our prevention work is delivered and experienced within community settings, where trust, participation, and wellbeing are strengthened as outcomes of upstream and midstream action.
WHY PREVENTION MATTERS
Across society, people experience stress, exclusion, and harm not because of personal failure, but because of structural pressures, unequal systems, and environments that quietly erode wellbeing over time.
When support only arrives at crisis point, harm is already embedded — for individuals, communities, and public services.
AFF Missions SCIO—addressing foundations of fairness—exists to act earlier and more effectively:
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Upstream, by addressing the conditions and narratives that shape wellbeing
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Midstream, by improving how systems operate in practice
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At community level, by strengthening everyday connection, trust, and resilience
Prevention is not about resilience rhetoric or individual coping.
It is about reducing avoidable harm at source.
INITIATIVES
All AFF Missions initiatives are designed as preventative interventions, each operating across defined points of the prevention pathway.
THiMO
Reducing harm from digital pressure and social comparison
THiMO addresses the cultural and digital environments that drive anxiety, overload, and disconnection. It challenges the normalisation of constant comparison, performance pressure, and fear of missing out, supporting healthier norms around presence, pace, and wellbeing.
Prevention focus: wellbeing · presence · social balance
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BuSE
Reducing stigma and harm linked to economic insecurity
BuSE tackles the shame, stress, and exclusion produced by structurally unequal economic systems. It reframes financial hardship as a systems issue, not a personal failing, and supports stigma-free approaches to financial resilience and access.
Prevention focus: fairness · access · stigma reduction
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Upstream: Changing the Conditions That Create Harm
AoIn
Improving agency and inclusion across everyday systems
AoIn focuses on the points where people encounter friction, exclusion or delay in routine systems, services, support pathways, and public-facing institutions. It strengthens agency, resilience, and meaningful participation helping communities build confidence, belonging, collective responsibility and dignity without escalating to crisis or enforcement thresholds.
Prevention focus: agency · inclusion · resilient connections
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AIHS
Access and integrity in higher-risk system contexts
AIHS is a standalone initiative focused on reducing the risk of victimisation by strengthening system integrity, accountability, and ethical design in higher-risk contexts. It places responsibility on institutions rather than individuals, ensuring systems act with care and fairness.
Prevention focus: integrity · accountability · safe system design
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Midstream: Improving How Systems Are Accessed and Experienced
Prevention Ecosystem Diagram
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Preventative by design, not crisis-led
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Explicitly upstream and midstream, addressing conditions and systems
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Non-stigmatising, avoiding deficit or blame-based narratives
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Evidence-aligned, informed by FPH, Marmot, WHO and related frameworks
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Accountable, with defined outcomes and indicators
We focus on shared responsibility and system conditions, not individual fault.
Prevention works best when systems act early, fairly, and with integrity.