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European heritage, movies and Mental Health!
What was in our Mind?
The main objective of Young Minds is to enhance teachers’ skills to foster students’ mental health and psychosocial awareness and well-being using films as an educational resource, with a focus on European audiovisual productions and with a scope that encompasses not only the teachers and their students but also the wider school community, reaching adolescents, parents, children, as well as mental health and audiovisual professionals, in the promotion of mental health literacy.
(Croatia, Portugal, Greece and Lithuania)
Mind us!
Dive into a curated collection of tools, films and in the future the productions made by our target groups that bring mental health stories to life and fights stereotypes!
1
Develop education resources and guidelines that connect mental health knowledge with media studies, fostering critical thinking.
2
Train teachers to apply materials and guidelines to use films as an education resource and enhance their, and therefore their students, mental health literacy.
3
Pilot the innovative teaching method with the students, fostering their analytical and creative skills in critiquing and producing films related to mental health.
Implementation
Capacitate teachers on mental health, a film-based approach
Capacitate teachers on mental health, a film-based approach
Mental Health on the screen: Let´s watch and talk about it events.
Mental health awareness campaigns
Our target-groups
Secondary teachers
Secondary school students from the associated partner schools
Other school staff (directors, support and administrative staff)
Mental health, critical thinking, innovative education, and media studies professionals associated with partner organizations.
Wider school community: parents, children, caregivers.
Other secondary school and VET providers, youth and sports organizations.
Policy makers and public bodies at the national and EU Level