🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Mental Health in Youth Work - Training Course
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
19-23 October 2026 | Finland
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❗️What Is This Training About?
The training provides a foundation for understanding how youth workers can strengthen and support young people’s mental health, wellbeing, and resilience; aimed for youth workers who work directly with young people in youth work settings.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
Youth Work Can Promote Mental Health
The Mental Health in Youth Work training explores the role and competencies of the youth workers in supporting the mental health needs of young people by strengthening their emotional and mental health skills.
Objectives
The training course objectives are:
- Clarifying the understanding of what mental health means
- Understanding the role of youth workers in promoting mental health in their work with young people
- Developing youth workers’ practical skills in supporting people’s mental health in their work
- Encouraging participants to reflect on their everyday practices with young people
- Enhancing the capacity to create a supportive, inclusive, and stigma-free environment
Mental Health from a preventive perspective
This training highlights mental health from a promotion and prevention perspective.
In this training, we do not approach mental health from the point of view of diagnosis, therapy, or healing – these approaches belong to the professional work outside youth work practices and require a set of competences that youth workers do not need to have.
Who can participate?
The training is open to you if you are
- working directly with young people on a regular basis in a youth work or youth-related services
- interested in developing your competencies in supporting young people’s mental health
- capable of applying the learning in your regular youth work practices
- willing to share experiences and good practices with others
- curious in mental health, emotional well-being, and resilience of young people
We want to especially encourage the participation of youth workers whose understanding of mental health is low or who have not been dealing with the topic before.
This training is not open to
- mental health professionals, such as therapists, psychologists, and clinical health care personnel,
- teachers and other educators in the field of formal education, such as primary and secondary schools or faculties
- representatives of organisations who only organise international projects or who do not have regular local youth work activities
- people looking for a therapeutic intervention. Given that we will be addressing potentially emotionally challenging topics related to mental health, we require participants to have emotional readiness to explore sensitive mental health issues.
Time and venue
The training will be hosted in Finland; the exact location will be announced later.
- Monday, October 19 - arrival
- Tuesday-Thursday October 20-22 - working days
- Friday, October 23 - departure
The programme includes a pre-task with the young people in your organisation and a pre-session online, where we discuss your pre-task. Instructions will be given to the selected participants.
This training is organised under Mental Health in Youth Work long-term project
Safe, accessible and sustainable
In this event, we follow the principles of a safer space. We strive to ensure that everyone is met as their own self and that no one has to fear discrimination or harassment. We want you to respect the same principle.
Our activities are accessible to people with different abilities. If you need a support person, accessible room and transport or other kind of support, we will provide it for you. You can tell your individual needs in beforehand so we can support you in your participation.
We take sustainability in consideration where we can. Since most participants have to fly over the sea to Finland, we encourage you to travel on land within Finland. We also encourage you to contact your own national agency to find out how they support low emission travelling to activities abroad.
We provide plant-based meals, or use locally grown and produced foods, as much as possible. We also respect the diets and food allergies of all participants.
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 25 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, Only open for youth workers who work directly with young people in local youth work settings.
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
EDUFI - The Finnish National Agency for Erasmus+ and European Solidaristy Corps (National Agency)
Co-organiser(s):
- Finnish National Agency for Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps (National Agency)
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Paavo Pyykkönen
E-Mail:
Phone: +358 400 247 774
💶 Costs
Costs
Participation fee
There is no participation fee.
Accommodation and food
The accommodation and meals will be covered for selected participants between 19 October (dinner) and 23 April (breakfast). Accommodation is in single rooms.
Travel reimbursement
Reimbursement of travel costs varies between countries. If you want to be sure what the practice is in your country, please contact the National Agency.
📜 Certificate
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:
https://youthworkshub.org/what-is-youthpass
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 7 September 2026
Date of selection: 18 September 2026
🔗 Official Link
⚠️ Important Notice
Youth Works Hub is not the organiser, partner, or representative of the listed projects. This listing is shared for information only, based on details from the source. Deadlines, eligible countries, dates, and other details may change or be withdrawn at any time, and all funding, reimbursements, and allowances are set by the project coordinator or National Agency. Applications go directly to the coordinator or hosting organisation through the official link. Listings may include third-party links (ESC Portal, infopacks, forms) that Youth Works Hub does not control. Always verify the details on the official project page before applying.
