The “I Feel Good” project is aimed to equip youth workers and educational leaders with creative methods which they can use during the activities related to the topics of health care and prevention measures. The overall aim of the project is to realize a long term non-formal education process at international level which will be able to empower the youth work that the partnership is realizing on field with young people coming from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or vulnerable groups, to raise their capacities to better perform and provide more useful services in the field of spreading the information about importance of physical and mental health, with the focus on COVID 19 and preventing measures of health protection, for the young people with which they work, to increase the competences of their youth/social workers to better include the different target groups in the social, cultural, and economic life of their communities and awareness of importance of health protection OBJECTIVES - Equip trainers, educators and youth workers with creative and innovative tools and methods to promote awareness for and provide information on health-related topics in their training or in any other context or initiative addressing young disadvantaged people. - Develop educational activities based on creative tools in the field of visualization and nonverbal communication, which will provide an attractive access to information on health prevention and education for young people, especially ones from disadvantaged groups; - To support innovation and quality of non-formal education in youth work acquiring and developing new methodologies, activities and competences; - To improve the youth work that our NGO’s are doing on field with young people coming from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or vulnerable groups in order to rase their awareness of important of taking care of mental and physical health and measures to keep ourselves healthy - To create educational videos/cartoons/white board scribing dedicated to health (mental and physical) and publication, dedicated to the methodology how to use creative tool in the activities dedicated to health protection - To reinforce the relationship among partners with the specific objective to plan and realize future projects under the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme using the knowledge and competences acquired during this project. TARGET GROUPS 1. Social and youth workers (youth leaders, community workers, social/NGO activists) and educators (formal and non-formal educators, trainers, facilitators, pedagogues and teachers working with additional and vocational education), who actively work with international and intercultural groups, who want to rase the awareness of their target groups in the topic of heath care and wellbeing through different activities, based on such creative and innovative tools and methods as non-verbal communication, body language and visualization.. 2. The ultimate target group will be local communities, civil society, young people, especially ones who are with fewer opportunities or have different restrictions and they will be final beneficiaries of the project results. RESULTS OF THE PROJECT 1. The participants and the partner organisations will increase their competencies in designing, facilitating and evaluating meaningful educational activities for young people in the field of healthy life style, importance of taking care of mental and physical health, prevention measures in the field of health care and wellbeing. This, in turn, will lead to higher quality in youth work, and to more and better opportunities for the target groups the partners work with and their local communities. 2. At least 7 workshops, street performance, school lessons and etc, at the partner organization´s countries, in order to address the topic of physical and mental health, using creative tools, such as visuals, posters, videos, cartoons, performances, flash mobs, street performance and etc. 3. At least 14 educational videos/cartoons/white board scribing dedicated to health (mental and physical) 4. A TOOL KIT, consist of creative tools and methods, which can be used during educational activities with young people from vulnerable groups The tool kit will be translated to the national languages of partner organizations (Italian, Hungarian, German, Lithuanian, Greek, and Spanish) 5. A publication with the set of recommendation on how to adapt NFE activities to the topic of health protection and well being Moreover, in will consist detailed explanation of sessions, implemented by the participants during the practice stage and their learning outcomes from them
Main objectives of the I Feel Good project were: - To equip trainers, educators and youth workers with creative and innovative tools and methods to promote awareness for and provide information on health-related topics in their training or in any other context or initiative addressing young disadvantaged people. - To develop educational activities based on creative tools in the field of visualization and nonverbal communication, which will provide an attractive access to information on health prevention and education for young people, especially ones from disadvantaged groups; - To support innovation and quality of non-formal education in youth work acquiring and developing new methodologies, activities and competences; - To improve the youth work that our NGOs are doing on field in order to raise their awareness of the importance of taking care of mental and physical health and measures to keep ourselves healthy - To create educational videos dedicated to health and publications dedicated to the methodology on how to use creative tool in the activities dedicated to health protection - To reinforce the relationship among partners using the knowledge and competences acquired during this project.
Health is one of the most important areas of life, without it is very hard to achieve your goals and develop, and Maslow´s hierarchy of needs explains it. The pandemic has brought health and care about it themes to the top of society's problems. Within the epidemic health context, young migrants and refugees, adolescent girls and young women, indigenous and ethnic minorities, youth with disabilities, LGBT youth, youth without safe housing, homeless youth or living in rural areas are amongst the most vulnerable groups due to lack of access to expensive medical treatment or even information about viruses and other diseases, how they spread and the consequences of the disease, and how to protect yourself and your health. Moreover, epidemics and lockdown have provoked a huge number of mental problems among young people. Depression, panic attacks, bursts of aggression are only a small part of what young people met during the lockdown and panic around the pandemic. All this, taken together, brings to the fore the care of yourself and your health, both physical and mental. Youth workers have an important role to play in supporting young people in this, and they need new tools which can easily be used and reach the young target.