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Mental Health and Coping During Pandemic

2020-3-PL01-KA105-0950942020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: PL|RS|HU|MK|SK|TR|IT · Grant: €17,466
Health and wellbeingPost-conflict/post-disaster rehabilitationInclusion - equity

Objectives

The overall aim of the project is Competence Development of Youth Workers, Youth Trainers and Volunteers in order to promote the mental health of the young people through their professional (youth training/youth work) and volunteering services. This way, the youth professionals would be able to reach the following objectives of the project: -To support the development of healthy youth identity through youth work, youth training and volunteering especially in Coronavirus crises; -To prevent potential mental health issues among their target group and to ask for support from other specialists; -To promote mental wellbeing among young people, through strategies for the enhancement and promotion of mental health and the dissemination at European level of knowledge and information for the prevention of mental disorders; -To increase the capacity of partner organisations to address the mental health educational needs of young people in their communities during pandemic; -To facilitate the use of the mental health education tools by youth workers around Europe; -To provide a set of knowledge and skills to young workers so as to enable them to work in multidisciplinary teams in the network with health professionals, bringing in very institutionalized contexts, tools and practices of education non-formal in supporting young people with mental illness.

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