With the `Stress? No, thanks. Youth workers in balance, ready for youth challenges', from Gantalcalá Andalucía, we wanted to improve youth participation, focusing on improving the mental health and skills of youth workers in several areas of Europe after the worsening caused by covid 19. To this end, the main objectives we set ourselves were: Raise awareness of youth workers about mental health problems and their relation to decreased youth participation, through data collection from the most affected countries in Europe, reflection and common work for the detection of factors; Improve mental health, well-being and motivation of youth workers, through methodologies of non-formal education, self-awareness and stress management techniques, and change of habits; and Increasing youth participation through the acquisition or improvement of `soft´ skills of youth workers, the exchange of ideas and good practices focused on improving the mental health of young people and the planning of future initiatives in this regard, at local and European level. All this was carried out in addition to transversal objectives such as learning in an intercultural environment, improvement of English, awareness through sustainable development practices and the use of new technologies.