EmpowerYOUth: Enhancing Youth Mental Wellbeing

<< Objectives >>EmpowerYOUth builds youth worker competences, empowering them to work with a curriculum aimed at building the resilience and coping mechanisms of youth (14-19) to positively impact their wellbeing by fostering effective coping mechanisms, habit-building practices and complementary attitudes among youth. Youth workers will be equipped with digital tools including a learning platform with a rich library of practical exercises that seamlessly bridges facilitated learning into real-life application.<< Implementation >>EmpowerYOUth will implement the following activities:#Development of the EmpowerYOUth curriculum through the enhancement of BUILD, drawing on youth voices and I.YOU app practices#Development of the EmpowerYOUth platform including a digital archive of practical exercises and methods#Development of EmpowerYOUth in-person training and its implementation#Implementation of EmpowerYOUth curriculum piloting#Amplificaiton of youth worker and youth voices through EmpowerYOUth public service campaign<< Results >>EmpowerYOUth international training course (2.5 days) trains 32 youth workers from Iceland, Bulgaria and Italy in EmpowerYOUth curriculum, exercises, and participatory methods. Trained youth workers access support though a digital platform extending their learning and offering a rich library of practical exercises and insights for use by youth worker, parents and youth themselves. Parent capacity to support their children will be enhanced through parent/guardian workshops in all countries.