- Project: Wellbeing in Diverse Youth Communities – WELLHOODY
- Project duration: 01.03.2022 – 01.07.2024
- Project reference: 2021-2-SE02-KA220-YOU-000049948
- Grant amount: 304.770€
- Donor: Erasmus + Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society
Summary
The WELLHOODY project will enable community wellbeing through youth learning and produce wider social benefits. Youth learning rooted in utilizing the power of diversity will encourage all community members to become pursuers of mutual wellbeing while nurturing acceptance and inclusion in terms of diversity.
WELLHOODY is working to enable and ensure the inclusion of all young people in society. The Youth Strategy 2019-2027 recognizes the need to ensure that marginalized young people are participating in all decision-making processes and are key players, particularly in processes concerning their own rights, wellbeing and interests (Goal 3). At the same time, Goal 4 is to achieve better mental wellbeing and end stigmatization of mental health issues, thus promoting the social inclusion of all young people.
Wellbeing in Diverse Youth Communities (WELLHOODY) is an innovative approach that will upskill YOUTH educators & communities in racially diverse communities to empower youth wellbeing & recognize strengths that are coming from diversity. In the process, they will equip young people to be active citizens, encouraging them to build inclusive diverse youth communities where everyone is welcome & can participate.
The project objectives are:
Empower youth educators (500+ educators) to motivate diverse youth groups to learn, participate & socialize by providing a new evidence-based learning resource & approach to engage youth learners through PR1 GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE, society will benefit from increased knowledge of how to inspire diverse communities towards common wellbeing.
Equip youth educators, stakeholders in community & youth wellbeing, as well as inclusion agents, to fully utilise the diversity positive effects on youth groups wellbeing, through the WELLHOODY Open Education Resources (ultimately delivered to 500 YOUTH LEARNERS and additional 50 youth educators in the lifetime+tested by 10)
Cultivate a supportive environment where youth from diverse backgrounds can gain confidence in new life skills: civic participation, future planning, socialising, communication, self—care, mindfulness, digital skills via WELLHOODY YOUTH CONNECTORS.
Youth workers will get understanding of the target groups, their wellbeing needs & objectives, intercultural communication (reach to 300+ educators, 50+learners)
-Share open digital access to information, learning, and build closer relationships. PLATFORM & ONLINE COURSE will facilitate collaboration, create and add additional learning materials (1,000+ people engaged).