Youth Research Dialogue
Competences for youth work, with a special focus on mental health
Our last Youth Research Dialogue before the summer break (20 June) dealt with the topic of competences for youth work, with a special focus on mental health.
Johannes from the RAY transnational research team discussed perspectives from our ongoing research project on competence development for youth work and training in the European Youth Programmes (RAY COMP). He analysed first findings and drew connections to mental health competences in youth work.
Elina Marjamäki, our guest speaker, brought in a practical perspective (and good practices) on mental health, skills and needs for youth workers and youth leaders. She has been working for MIELI Mental Health Finland since 2007. Her work in the Youth Work Competence Center focuses on training youth workers in mental health promotion of young people. Her expertise brought a valuable contribution to this dialogue.
Moderation was done by Tomi Kiilakoski and digital facilitation by Domagoj Morić.
Live stream available
If you didn’t have the time to join or want to re-watch the Youth Research Dialogue again, just access the recording of the live stream here:
Speakers
>> Johannes Eick is a youth and civic engagement researcher working for Youth Policy Labs, a small research agency and think tank in the youth sector. There, he is part of the transnational research team of the RAY Network for the Research-based analysis of European Youth Programmes. Currently, he is also working as a teacher in Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne.
>> Elina Marjamäki (M.Soc.Sc.) has been working for MIELI Mental Health Finland since 2007 in the field of mental health promotion. She has co-written a handbook “Child’s Mind – Mental health promotion in early childhood education and child health clinics”. She has created a 10 hour online course “Mental Health Power” for youth workers. She works for MIELI in the Youth Work Competence Center and is training youth workers in mental health promotion of young people. An extensive handbook “Mental Health Power – A Youth Workers’ Guide to Promoting Mental Health” https://mieli.fi/en/materials/mental-health-power-book/ is available at the website.