T-kit 16: Well-being and mental health of young people
In 2024-2025, the Youth Partnership is working on a new T-kit on the Well-being and mental health of young people.
Training kits (T-kits) are hands-on materials meant for supporting the training and education of practitioners involved in international youth work. Since 1998, the Youth Partnership has been continuously developing T-kits and in recent years has been updating the content of different T-kits to reflect the continuous development of the youth work field and the changes of general context.
The T-kit will aim at:
- Offering a comprehensive educational manual to be used by youth workers and trainers in their practical work on the topic with young people;
- Translating the existing research by the Youth Partnership on this topic as well as the work done by the partner institutions and other youth sector stakeholders for educational purposes;
- Identifying and sharing relevant good youth work practices and available support systems and resources at European, national and local levels, and examples of existing initiatives of cross-sectoral co-operation;
- Offering a set educational methods and activities to be used in a variety of youth work and non-formal educational settings that allow users to support young people discover, understand and apply youth work referrals and approaches on mental health and well-being issues, as well as their learning process and competence development on the topic;
- Providing basic necessary knowledge on interrelated topics, including human rights and specialised support.
The Youth Partnership’s research on young people’s mental health and well-being, aimed at analysing available support systems at different levels, providing guidance for policy and practice and further exploring the different triggers that aggravate young people’s mental health and well-being will also feed in into this new practical publication.
The first online expert meeting about the development of the concept took place on 24 June 2024, and the publication of the T-kit 16 is foreseen for 2026.
