Activity No 2 – Hold On: Youth Capacity-Building
A2 Aims
• Strengthening young people’s knowledge and understanding of the common mental health and wellbeing challenges affecting their peers
• Fostering youth capacities and skills for offering peer mental health and wellbeing support
• Establishing peer support mechanisms for advancing youth mental health and wellbeing
• Supporting exchange of experiences among youth engaged in establishing mental health peer support across the partner countries
The main results of this activity will be:
1. Development of an e-learning course on mental health & well-being topics
- Self-paced online course with at least 4 modules of common mental health and well-being challenges.
2. A mentoring programme, to establish peer mental health support
-Establish peer support groups (either in person or online) to provide emotional support and mental health education.
3. Youth mental health advocates international conference
- An 1-day conference so that mental health advocates can share their experiences in establishing peer mental health support groups.
