ESTEEM – Youth work responses to young people well-being

 

ESTEEM – Youth work responses to young people well-being” is an innovative 24 months Erasmus+ cooperation partnership project implemented among 5 organisations from Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria and Spain.

With the implementation of the project “ESTEEM – Youth work responses to young people well-being” we would like to look at young people’s well-being from a wider perspective and to provide a complex approach to promote the well-being of youngsters in order to achieve positive changes. This approach includes youngsters – youth workers – parents/society – policymakers or vice versa: policymakers – parents/society – youth workers – youngsters.

FOR YOUNGSTERS a modern digital solution – Well-being APP will be created (there is no age limit but we focus on age 13-26) that will include different mood/health monitoring tools that provide youngsters with educational science-based information on how to improve the quality of their life; social activities design to create interactions amongst people; practical tasks, tips and games designed to help build meaningful relationships with other people; different games and challenges using gamification principles to teach users about well-being different habit training tools, that help people develop/ change better habits.

FOR YOUTH WORKERS a game – training module will be created to develop professional competencies to work with young people on Well-being issues; Toolkit where different methods will be collected on how to work with young people on well-being issues; Manual for youth workers/ teachers on how to work with young people about well-being issues (also including about post-pandemic work); Collection of the best practices from partner countries about work with young people on well-being issues.

FOR PARENTS/ SOCIETY a collection of the best practices from partner countries about working with young people on well-being issues; National mapping reports & summary report – realities, needs and good practices.

FOR POLICY MAKERS a national mapping reports & summary report – realities, needs and good practices about the real situation on well-being questions will be presented.

PROJECT AIM: 

  • To develop youth work responses to mental health and psychological well-being issues of young people. 
  • To improve youth work quality during and in post-pandemic realities. 
  • To empower young people to be happy, autonomous and resilient citizens, who are able to make their choices and take decisions.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

  • To map the national realities on psychological well-being of young people, including pandemic impact, and good practices to deal with well-being issues.
  • To raise the capacity of youth workers to empower young people to address youth mental health and well-being issues.
  • To develop innovative, adaptable and ready-to-use tools and digital App to address mental health and psychological well-being issues with young people in educational practices of post-pandemic youth work.

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS:

  1. National mapping reports & summary report – realities, needs and good practices. Here you can find the Mapping report in Engilsh and in Bulgarian language here.
  2. Collection of the good practices from partner countries about work with young people on well-being issues.
  3. Toolkit with the different methods to work with young people on well-being issues.
  4. Educational game – training module to develop youth workers competences to work with young people on well-being questions.
  5. Manual for youth workers/ teachers on how to work with young people about well-being issues (also including post-pandemic work).
  6. Digital solution – APP for young people about well-being (to inform about different questions about well-being, measure individual levels in different topics, change habits with KBT approach, peer learning support system.

Project “ESTEEM – Youth work responses to young people well-being”, No. 2021-2-LV02-KA220-YOU-000051464 is funded with support from the European Commission by the program “Erasmus+: Youth in Action”, which in Latvia is administrated by Agency for International Programs for Youth.