"Mindspace: mental health in youth work"

Objectives We want to raise awareness of the importance of mental health in youth work among relevant stakeholders and to build the capacities of youth workers in order to respond to the youth at risk. Bringing together mental health professionals, youth workers as well as you young people at risk, all from different sociocultural backgrounds, we want to develope a sustainable and widely applicable mental health program for working with youth at risk based on non-formal education and youth work principles. Activities Through the set of focus groups, participants from Serbia, N.Macedonia and Germany will share their experience and practice in youth work to get the relevant information and guidelines, provide additional data through online questionnaires, develop workshops and training programs, test it in training and local workshops and design it according to all findings. Program dissemination activities will follow in order to promote the results to relevant parties. Two