Digital Storytelling
for Youth Mental Health

What is this project about?

Digital Storytelling for Youth Mental Health will empower young people (18-30 years old) with new skills to manage the negative impacts and challenges of the 21st century. Young people nowadays face multiple challenges: social inequalities are rising; social mobility is decreasing in most of the European countries; the labour market requires new skills and public education cannot always keep up with these needs; while environmental sustainability is becoming a more and more burning issue that may soon affect our everyday life. It is not surprising that feelings of anxiety, helplessness, loss of personal integrity are more and more common problems among young people in Europe made even worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives

We aim to use a digital storytelling approach to raise awareness and empower young people to cope with challenges and mental health issues, supporting them in building resilience among peers in their communities. For this, we need to equip youth workers with modern communication and development tools.

Impact

Develop competences of youth workers in using digital storytelling as a capacity-building tool

Provide young people with opportunities to share their experiences during the pandemic with their peers and to learn from these experiences in a positive way

Provide youth workers with educational resources, methods, and tools to empower local young people in a digital environment

Enable young people to access information material on mental health

I.
Develop competences of youth workers in using digital storytelling as a capacity-building tool

II.
Provide youth workers with educational resources, methods, and tools to empower local young people in a digital environment

III.
Provide young people with opportunities to share their experiences during the pandemic with their peers and to learn from these experiences in a positive way

IV.
Enable young people to access information material on mental health

Partnership

Hungary

Youth Initiative Center

The Netherlands

Portugal

Slovakia

Slovenia

Thanks to the wide partnership of experts in youth work, digital marketing, and the creative industry, we will support young people in designing and delivering awareness campaigns and initiatives that will enable them to be actively engaged in health promotion. Youth-focused social networks initiatives will help us empower a wide range of young people to volunteer, exchange knowledge, and spread awareness.