The purpose of our project was to bring relevant improvements to youth work by addressing serious educational needs that we have identified within the local realities of the project partners. Mental health of young people should appropriately be addressed because it includes the emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It contributes to how young people think, feel, and act. In a 2019 research of Mental Health Europe, it was clear that 1 in 5 adolescents in Europe are affected by at least one psychological problem each year. Depression is one of the leading causes of disability among adolescents and suicide is the second leading cause of death in 15-29 year olds. Moreover, as the coronavirus pandemic rapidly has stretched across the world, the Regional Office of the World Health Organization foresaw that the main psychological impact of quarantine and mobility restrictions includes elevated rates of stress or anxiety, loneliness, depression, harmful alcohol and drug use, and self-harm or suicidal behavior. A paper under the title “The Effect of COVID-19 on Youth Mental Health” showcases that COVID-19, may have an immense influence on youth mental health, especially for youth coming from a disadvantaged background. The paper calls out for immediate, effective and long lasting psychological interventions for youth, especially the ones who are from a vulnerable background. In Europe, researcher Sarah Payne already showed through an extensive analysis that the ISSUES of Mental Health and Social Exclusion are closely linked. Inadequate mental health increases social exclusion, loss of social contacts and sociability and vice versa. In this context the NEED arised imperatively: the need to empower the mental health of young people, as well as their social inclusion, particularly of the ones who are disadvantaged. The project ‘Pathways to Nature and Soul’ AIMed at increasing the capacity of youth workers to stimulate the inclusion and empowerment of disadvantaged young people (including youth with mental health issues), through nature based methods and activities. The OBJECTIVES of the project were: 1. By the end of the project the 24 youth workers to enhance by 75% their degree of understanding the characteristics and particularities of disadvantaged youth. 2. By the end of the project the 24 youth workers to increase by 75% their degree of understanding the use of nature as an environment that stimulates the learning, participation, inclusion/connection and empowerment of disadvantaged youth. 3. By the end of the project the 24 youth workers to improve by 75% their specific professional competences to use efficient and sustainable methods, activities and concepts based on nature for the development of disadvantaged youth. 4. By the end of the project the 24 youth workers to increase by 75% their personal and professional motivation to work with disadvantaged youth. 5. By the end of the project the 24 youth workers to implement 24 follow-up nature-based educational action plans with disadvantaged youth in the countries involved.