🧠💬 Erasmus+ Training Course in Germany 🇩🇪 Strengthening Mental Health in Long-Term Volunteering for Professionals Who Support Volunteers 🤝🌱🇩🇪

Mental Health in Long-term Volunteering – Healthy Volunteers & Healthy Coordinators

🧩 About the Training Course
Mental health has become one of the most critical topics in international volunteering. This Erasmus+ Training Course focuses on both sides of the process: the well-being of young volunteers and the mental health of professionals working with them.

The training is designed for experienced youth workers, coordinators, mentors, and professionals involved in the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) and similar international volunteering programmes. It does not provide therapy or clinical intervention. Instead, it offers trauma-sensitive, pedagogical, and practical tools that can be used safely in everyday professional contexts.

Participants will explore stress, resilience, boundaries, and self-care while learning how to recognise and respond to mental health challenges among volunteers in a responsible, non-therapeutic way.

📚 Training Structure & Content
The programme is built around two complementary components:

🗣️ Exchange of Experience & Practices
Participants share real-life experiences from different countries, including support systems, healthcare contexts, and organisational approaches to mental health in volunteering.

🧠 Specialised Resilience Workshop
A two-day workshop led by a qualified resilience trainer, focusing on:
💚 Strengthening professionals’ own mental well-being
🧭 Trauma-sensitive support for young volunteers
⚖️ Setting healthy boundaries in professional roles
🛠️ Practical strategies for daily pedagogical work

All sessions emphasise reflection, peer learning, evaluation, and networking to improve long-term support structures across Europe.

🎯 Training Goals
🧠 Understanding trauma, stress, and resilience
💪 Strengthening self-awareness and self-care
🔍 Recognising stress and trauma reactions in volunteers
🌱 Developing a trauma-sensitive, resource-oriented approach
🧩 Applying concrete tools in everyday youth work
🤝 Building partnerships and professional networks

📅 Activity Dates
19 – 23 April 2026

📍 Location
Leipzig, Germany 🇩🇪

👥 Participant Profile
This training is recommended for:
Youth workers
Youth leaders
Youth project managers
Volunteering mentors
Youth coaches
Volunteering coordinators

🌍 Eligible Countries
🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇨🇿 Czech Republic 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇫🇮 Finland 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇮🇹 Italy 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇲🇹 Malta 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇳🇴 Norway 🇵🇱 Poland 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇲🇰 North Macedonia 🇷🇴 Romania 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇹🇷 Türkiye 🇺🇦 Ukraine

🗣️ Working Language
English

🏫 Organiser
VILLA gGmbH (Youth NGO) – Germany
An experienced organisation with over 20 years of work in ESC and Erasmus+ youth projects, hosting and coordinating international volunteers and training professionals across Europe.

📎 Application Deadline
8 February 2026

📎 Application
https://trainings.salto-youth.net/14329

Infopack
https://www.salto-youth.net/tools/european-training-calendar/download/salto%5Ctrainingcalendar%5Cmodel%5CDownload-10588/TC_Leipzig_VILLA_Mental_Health_ESC_1.pdf

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