The first objective sought to strengthen the capacity within the consortium to identify specific knowledge, behaviours, attitudes, and skills that contribute to health literacy as means to facilitate youth to achieve an adequate state of social, physical, sexual, and mental well-being: How is health literacy knowledge and awareness translated into healthy behaviours and healthy lifestyles that lead to a greater social, physical, sexual, and mental well-being? Whereas the second object sought to strengthen youth’s capacity: (1). Facilitate youth become aware of health problems that may affect them; (2). Facilitate youth in acquiring an understanding of those health problems, their consequences and how they can deal with them; (3). Facilitate youth to acquire the skills needed to address physical, sexual, and mental health problems; (4). Advocate for youth health policy that value systems that include a strong interest in health and motivation to actively participate in protecting and improving the quality of health; and (5). Facilitate youth to develop a sense of responsibility and urgency to ensure that appropriate action is taken to solve sexual and mental health problems.
We sought to create a partnership aiming to strengthen partners’ capacity to develop a youth work that can meet the health literacy needs of young people through Inclusion and Diversity; using approaches that offer potential for reaching out to and engaging youth in health education. Despite its immense benefits, health literacy remains a challenge for European public health. Research shows that more than a third of the EU population face difficulties in finding, understanding, evaluating, and using information to manage their health, especially on sexual and mental health. So, we aimed to address the lack of youth health literacy in the field of youth education and training in non-formal learning settings. We referred to youth health literacy as youth’s skills and knowledge necessary to access, understand, evaluate, and use health information, enabling them to make health care decisions, disease prevention, and means for healthy living. To meet those needs, we applied the Impact Pathway, Participatory Action Research, and Human Rights-Based Approaches in the project implementation.