🌍💛 Partnership-Building Activity in Hungary – CARE: Supporting Mental Health & Wellbeing Through Quality Youth Work 🇭🇺✨

📚 About the Partnership-Building Activity
Taking place in Szeged, Hungary, CARE – Supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing through Quality Youth Work brings together 40 youth workers and organisations to co-create tools, strengthen mental-health-related competences, and build long-term partnerships.
The PBA addresses Youth Goal 5: Mental Health & Wellbeing, focusing on practical, ready-to-use methods and intersectoral cooperation with schools, social services, health professionals and municipalities.

📅 Activity Dates
16–23 May 2026

📅 Application Deadline
2 February 2026

📍 Location
Szeged, Hungary 🇭🇺

🌟 Themes & Learning Focus
This PBA strengthens youth workers’ ability to support young people’s mental health through:

• Shared understanding of mental health, wellbeing, and self-care
• Mindfulness & embodiment routines for stress regulation
• Fight–flight–freeze responses & co-regulation strategies
• Creating safe spaces, boundaries & trauma-aware facilitation
• Nonviolent Communication (NVC) for dialogue & conflict transformation
• Coaching mindset & GROW model for motivation and goal-setting
• Intersectoral cooperation with schools, services & municipalities
• Building a practical mental-health method pack for youth work
• Preparing follow-up Erasmus+ projects (KA152, KA153, KA210, KA220)

The PBA aims to create a sustainable partner network committed to strengthening youth mental health through everyday youth work practice.

🎯 Expected Learning Outcomes
By the end of the PBA, participants will be able to:

• Define concepts of mental health & identify local priority needs
• Facilitate daily check-ins & short mindfulness/embodiment routines
• Identify fight–flight–freeze signs & apply co-regulation strategies
• Set boundaries using youth-friendly communication methods
• Deliver a 60-minute NVC micro-workshop & mediate peer conflicts
• Create inclusive safe-space agreements adapted for fewer-opportunity youth
• Map local stakeholders & draft a simple referral flow
• Design a micro-pilot wellbeing initiative to implement at home
• Contribute to future Erasmus+ cooperation projects

🎯 Objectives of the PBA

• Build a common understanding of mental health & co-regulation
• Strengthen capacity to create safe, inclusive youth work spaces
• Share and co-create practical wellbeing tools (NVC, mindfulness, coaching questions, boundaries)
• Promote a culture of care & resilience among youth workers
• Ensure inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities
• Connect youth work with schools, services & municipalities
• Integrate wellbeing routines into organisational practices
• Initiate KA152, KA153, KA210, KA220 partnerships for long-term impact

🧠 Methodology
The PBA uses a non-formal, experiential, and peer-driven approach, including:

• Community-building rituals, daily check-ins & mindful warm-ups
• Experiential labs, role-play, theatre of situations, simulations
• Method co-creation workshops (NVC, GROW, boundaries, embodiment)
• Partnership design studios: world café, fishbowl, stakeholder mapping
• Micro-pilot planning & Open Space practice exchange
• Reflection groups, learning diaries & Youthpass integration

👥 Who Can Participate?

• 2 youth workers per organisation
• Working directly with youth, especially fewer-opportunity groups
• Experience in Erasmus+ youth projects
• Motivated to co-create & implement wellbeing practices
• Able to cooperate with schools/services & build partnerships
• Available for the full duration & able to work in English
• Eligible for Erasmus+ funding

🌍 Eligible Countries
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💶 Costs & Practical Info

• No participation fee
• Accommodation & food fully covered
• Travel reimbursement based on EU distance calculator
• Reimbursement may be delayed depending on EC transfers
• Youthpass certificate provided

Application Link
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14234

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