In Säffle, intensive work has been carried out for a few years to put public health work on the municipal political agenda to a greater extent. The reasons for making public health visible in general are many. Among other things, there are individuals in different groups who live in a social exclusion, unhealthy numbers are increasing in both urban and rural areas and Värmland is one of the counties in Sweden that has the most number of suicides and children living in poverty. Värmland also has among the lowest levels of education in the country and, like most other municipalities and counties in Sweden, wrestles with the question of the great need for skills supply. How should workplaces in the private and public sectors be able to hire people if the individuals do not feel well, do not have the energy or want to get involved? We already see consequences of this in the form of companies having to redirect their production or say no to orders on the basis that they do not find employable individuals in the municipality. The public sector is also finding it difficult to find staff and has limited existing employees, whose numbers are also decreasing due to retirements. This means that the professionals are allowed to work even more at the risk of being burned out. A vicious circle. The work to highlight the importance of public health work has, among other things, been done in collaboration with Region Värmland and meant that the administrations in Säffle municipality have been involved, received information and thus increased understanding of public health as an enabler or obstacle linked to, among other things, the need for skills supply. The Association Life and Public Health project is rooted in great concern at the high rates of ill-health and suicides at the local, regional and national levels. In addition, there are signals that certain parts of associations and civil society find it difficult to maintain, reach and recruit new members. This is partly due to an ageing population and the fact that older enthusiasts are not replaced by younger ones. The project's explorative, entrepreneurial approach has the hope that there are methods to work preventively and preventively to find the individual's driving forces and motivation to employ themselves, instead of becoming a home sitter. One of the questions underlying the project is how associations and civil society need to develop in new areas in order to attract more children, young people and adults, especially those living in exclusion? This is where associations and civil society come in as enablers as these arenas have a strong psychosocial significance for the individual's sense of security, belonging and commitment linked to a context. The project's target groups are young people between the ages of 13-19 who live in exclusion and parents of these young people. The project's goal is to eventually develop a model with working methods with regard to finding the individual's own driving forces for engaging and employing themselves linked to developing and increasing associations and civil society. The effects expected from the project's efforts are, among other things, that more individuals are employed and contribute to their own livelihood, either as an employee or as a self-employed person, more long-term sustainable skills supply in the labour market and a richer association and civil society.