A/HRC/41/34 cognitive and intellectual disabilities – are still being left behind. The global community should prioritize sustainable systems that enable and adopt a human rights-based approach to the promotion of mental health. Human beings, in all their diversity, are rights holders and should not be seen as subjects of diagnosis or a disease burden. Modern mental health policies should foster empowerment, meaningful participation and resilience among all persons, including those with mental health conditions. 94. The Special Rapporteur recommends that States: (a) Include the promotion of mental health and well-being as a cross-cutting issue in the participatory development and implementation of all public policies, and place societal well-being at the centre of development and assistance decisions that aim to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; (b) Take immediate steps to develop a cross-sectoral strategy for the promotion of mental health that includes a review of public policies with a view to social, labour and economic reforms that prevent inequality, discrimination and violence in all settings, promote non-violent and respectful relationships between members of societies and communities, and increase mutual trust between authorities and civil society; (c) Develop holistic strategies and policies for societal well-being and scale up sustainable resources for interventions that strengthen protective factors, harnessing the resilience of people and communities throughout their life and across all settings: the home, schools, workplaces and the broader community; (d) Fund and enable civil society and user-led groups to support monitoring and service provision in the promotion of societal well-being. 95. With regard to international cooperation and assistance, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States, and relevant development and international stakeholders: (a) Balance development efforts to close the treatment gap by investing equally in promotion activities that are free from discriminatory approaches and respect both evidence and holistic rights-based approaches that build well-being in societies, not just health-care sectors; and fund assistance for global mental health advocacy; (b) Ensure transparent and participatory decision-making processes in the development of strategies and funding priorities for global mental health action, and develop rights-based indicators for the monitoring and review of investment; (c) Resource and support civil society engagement and user-led advocacy, particularly for those who are in the most marginalized situations due to existing systems of mental health services. 96. With regard to the promotion of non-violent, healthy relationships, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States: (a) Develop policies and resource measures that promote effective interventions to promote positive relationships throughout life, particularly scaling up such measures to support healthy holistic development in childhood and adolescence; (b) Develop effective infrastructure for child protection and family support to improve the quality of relationships between parents and children, thereby protecting children from experiencing any form of violence in the family and avoiding the use of institutional care as a way of bringing up children; (c) Take steps towards the full elimination of institutional care for children, with a special focus on eliminating the institutionalization of young children, with or without disabilities; (d) Ensure that policies and services supporting families empower children and adolescents, recognizing their capacities; these policies should respect and protect 18