Protecting Youth's Mental Health

Background For many, the age of “youth” is an interesting time, but since it is full of changes and challenges, it can represent the trigger of anxiety, worry and uneasiness. Unfortunately, young people sometimes do not recognize what is happening, where to find help or find it embarrassing, so these emotional strains might lead to deeper mental processes. That is why, this strategic alliance (formed by Petrklíč Help, CWP and Permacultura Cantabria) decided to address this topic in the project “Protecting Youth's Mental Health” The project seeks to gather tools for the identification of youth mental health issues and on the other hand, it seeks their prevention, The needs have been covered by achieving the objectives of the learning activities implemented: PARTICIPATORY VISIT TO CEZCH REPUBLIC PARTICIPATORY VISIT TO THE UK TRAINING COURSE in Spain Objectives The objectives for the “DANCE” project are as following: - To Create spaces for knowledge exchange and good practices that add solutions to the problem of youth depression. Thus, the project has planned 2 participatory visits to Petrklíč Help (Czech Republic) and CWP (UK), to know the situation of the problem in each country, and their best practices to tackle it. Associated organizations will collaborate in these visits. -To Provide youth workers and participants with tools for creating healthy and collaborative spaces. That is why, an 8-day course in Spain will be carried out and led by Permacultura Cantabria, to merge the tools to identify and prevent youth depression. With this, youth workers and young leaders will be better trained. -To Promote the dissemination of the project and its results in order to broaden its impact. An exhaustive dissemination strategy was planned and divided into several phases (before, during and after the course) and tasks. Implementation The main activities implemented were: a) Transnational project meetings: We carried out 2 transnational meetings, International project meeting online due to the covid-19 situation (Kick off) International project meeting in Czech Republic where our Spanish partner attended online due to a personal problems (Final assessment) b) Best practices exchange through the three learning activities: A 3-day participatory visit to Czech Republic A 3-day participatory visit to UK An 8-day course in Spain c) Other supplementary activities without specific budget: Internal workshops: Through the workshops, the 3 entities ensured the transfer of the... of the newly acquired tools and knowledge. Youth workers and youth leaders who formed part of the training organized in Spain organized an internal workshop for youth workers and young people from their organization, so they benefit from the course results. This has implied the participation of the organizations: selection of participants, internal workshop, support and tutorship. Achievements The main tangible results of the project were: *Summary video of the course held in Spain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmZYNxJ2dqk *Infopacks of the learning activities shared with participants before the learning activities. CZECH REPUBLIC: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ItoKfywRJymBTDUxpQ05nwfI78CA-Z7h/view?usp=sharing UK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eFnEuH75Vg-a0urHMkTJDN4K70ClEzaQ/view?usp=sharing SPAIN: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jGAibDI3p_iXF1mKu625mHOphdtDBt11/view?usp=sharing *Posters of the project activities (project meetings, learning activities, etc) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r0DJOIN1xbeJJSDDrpTOkoyz_TAyTotm?usp=sharing *Newsletters https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qT4LY_lWgnux4xv6J2LE6aZFpVEZgTS6?usp=sharing *Spaces for youth Youth Mental Club - regular meetings on Smetanova 9, Český Těšín - each first Wednesday in month from 15:00-17:00. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1chs23ev6hfyZnCHgJkJBd2JVr9uVNrRI/view?usp=sharing *Internal workshops https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HBUDeGoPexS44g4N1vdez_GdIlJPi9X_?usp=sharing Other kinds of results and achievements are explained in the next sections.