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Mental Health First Aid Kit

In April, the Training Course "Mental Health First Aid Kit" was implemented in Puig-Reig in Catalonia. 

The main objectives of the Training Course were the individuals:
  • Providing youth workers and educators with specific tools and know-hows for managing and supporting youngsters in difficult situations.
  • Creating a safe space for sharing experience between youth workers
  • Sharing good practices
See below what the people of the Greek team said about the program:
"The most important fact I keep in mind from this project, is that a very safe environment can be created, in order to sensitive topics get approached, such as mental health, with discretion and clarity."-Ilektra
"This particular program helped me a lot as a person studying and working in education, I learnt so much about mental health, personality amd communication types, how to avoid a crisis, how to express my feelings, control my mind, calm down. I met a lot of kind, good and interesting people"- Chara
"Through this TC, we had the chance to learn a variety of mental health tools to use in our work with youngsters, but most importantly we had the chance to connect"- Alexandra

The program is co-financed by the European Union.

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