We wanted to improve the competencies of teachers, psychologists, principals, students and their parents to strengthen the resilience and mental well-being of adolescent students through teaching and extracurricular activities. We also wanted to achieve specific goals with the project: to provide support to educational staff for the prevention of adolescent mental health through short-term joint trainings, to design a manual for teachers and other educational staff for preventive work with students on the topic of mental health, to develop and pilot a peer support program and a parent support program for mental health support, and to promote project results through the organization of multipair events with the aim of their dissemination and sustainability of the project.
Timely mental health care is especially important during early adolescence (ages 10 to 19), when personality is being formed and developed. Adolescents are a vulnerable group, as they often face numerous challenges. The results of national and international studies show that the mental health of young people is at risk. Numerous studies on the effectiveness of prevention programs indicate that the most successful and efficient programs are those implemented in schools, tailored to the needs of adolescents, that include educational activities, foster the development of young people's social skills, are carried out by school staff, and also strengthen the competencies of both parents and teachers. That is why we applied for a project through which we designed and implemented preventive activities for all of the above-mentioned target groups.