Euro Youth Mental Health

Euro Youth Mental Health

We are a network of mental health youth work experts and young people with personal experience of mental health difficulties. We empower and train young people to use their stories to make a positive change in services and research on youth mental health across Europe.

Mission statement

We are a Non-profit organisation currently run by passionate and enthusiastic young volunteers who share their expertise and experiences to improve the mental health support young people get across Europe.

We act in order to create a Europe that enables young people to access support and talk openly about their mental health and well-being. By encouraging collaboration across services, sharing of best-practice and ensuring that young people are empowered to have a voice in all matters that affect them around the promotion of mental health and preventing the impact of mental illness. We offer a variety of bespoke training on mental health promotion and mental illness impact prevention to a variety of youth, NGO, education organisations.

Summary of relevant work

  • Delivery of trainer to mixed national young people and/or professionals
  • Study weeks with Council of Europe
  • Ongoing support and empowerment of young 'experts by experience'
  • Consultancy on participation/involvement of young people with mental health difficutlies

Key partners

Funders

None - we currently operate completely voluntarily.

Seeking collaboration with

Experts by experience/service users
Other organizations
Policy makers
Researchers

Details

Approach(es)
Advocacy
Detection and diagnosis
Empowerment and service user involvement
Human rights
Prevention and promotion
Task sharing
Training, education and capacity building
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Disorder(s)
All mental health conditions
Region(s)
Europe
Population(s)
Children and adolescents
Disability
Setting(s)
Community
Primary care
School
Specialist care
Workplace
Country(s)
United Kingdom