Boost Your Well-being: Take Action for Mental Health

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This playlist empowers you to explore, support, and take action toward improving mental health and well-being—for yourself and those around you. Through engaging activities, you will learn to recognise your strengths, understand your rights, provide mental health support, and raise awareness about mental health issues in your community. Each activity is designed to be inclusive, supportive, and flexible, ensuring everyone can participate comfortably and meaningfully.
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By completing this playlist, you’ll gain the skills to become a mental health advocate, make positive changes in your community, and promote well-being for yourself and others. You’ll also develop valuable communication, empathy, advocacy, and leadership abilities—all essential in building a healthier, more supportive world.
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Why should you care?Boost self-awareness: Learn to identify and appreciate your strengths, building confidence and resilience.
Know your rights: Understand your mental health rights in education, work, and healthcare and learn how to advocate for yourself and others.
Support others: Gain practical skills in mental health first aid to confidently offer help when someone is struggling.
Promote inclusivity: Learn how to make mental health support accessible and welcoming for people from all backgrounds.
Raise awareness: Lead or contribute to campaigns that spread important mental health messages, helping reduce stigma and promote well-being in your community.
Earn recognition: Receive badges that showcase your skills in self-awareness, advocacy, support, inclusivity, and leadership—giving you a tangible way to demonstrate your commitment to mental health.
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How partners and organisations in Cities of Learning can support you:
Highlight success stories: Share inspiring examples of young people leading mental health initiatives in their communities.
Encourage participation: Use social media and local outreach to motivate more young people to join the activities and promote mental well-being.
Create connections: Help young people connect with local mental health resources, support networks, and other youth initiatives.
Organise events: Partner with local organisations to host wellness workshops, support groups, and awareness campaigns focused on mental health.
Promote ongoing engagement: Use the platform to share the campaign results and encourage continued efforts to promote mental health awareness.
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This playlist is part of the European Youth Goals for Cities of Learning cooperation partnership implemented by four partner organisations:
System&G, lead partner in Greece
CODEC, Belgium
Badgecraft, Lithuania
System&G, Finland
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The EU Erasmus+ programme co-funded this activity.
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Your Strengths, Your Superpowers for Mental Health

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Nepoznatog trajanja

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Stand for Yourself and Your Mental Health Rights

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Support for All: Building Inclusive Mental Health Spaces

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Nepoznatog trajanja

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Mental Health First Aid for Everyone

Obavezno

Nepoznatog trajanja

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Mental Health and Wellbeing Awareness Campaign

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This activity allows you to lead or contribute to a mental health awareness campaign that promotes well-being and reduces stigma in your community. Whether you prefer working behind the scenes or taking on a more active role, this activity offers a variety of ways for you to make an impact. Through campaign planning, content creation, and small-scale events, you’ll help spread important messages about mental health and encourage others to take action.
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First, get inspiredIn this TEDxCherry Creek Women talk, Téaghan Ferguson captures our attention on the society in which youth are actively prevented from advocating for themselves and their peers. This is why we need generational learning to help break down this barrier. Youth need to be heard and supported as they advocate for their needs.
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In their TEDxLFHS talk, high school student Sarah Mack shares takeaways from their mental health struggles and treatment experiences to illustrate how society stigmatises and trivialises the hardships of mental illness.
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The following videos showcase five mental health campaigns making a difference (according to a blog post by Roger Horberry, a senior copywriter at GWI with a special interest in research and data topics).
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Mind’s “If this speaks to you” mental health campaign aims to challenge how we speak about mental issues and listen to others.
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This simple but hard-hitting mental health campaign from the UK’s Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) reminds us that suicide is something that happens to ordinary people from all walks of life.
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In this campaign, Dove invites young people to share stories of how they’re affected by “appearance hate and discrimination” caused by toxic beauty ideals, with a wider mission to make social media a more positive place that’s safer for kids.
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This mental health campaign video, made by UK Championship League side Norwich City FC to support #WorldMentalHealthDay and Samaritans mental health charity, addresses themes of suicide.
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ASICS – one of the world’s leading sports shoe brands – to take action and create this mental health campaign to encourage more people to experience the mental health benefits that the movement can bring.
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Now, take action!By completing the following activities, you’ll learn how to contribute to or lead a mental health awareness campaign that makes a real difference in your community by raising awareness, promoting mental well-being, and reducing stigma.
Campaign planning workshop or toolkit: Attend a campaign planning workshop or use an online toolkit to create an impactful mental health awareness campaign. The toolkit provides templates and practical steps to help you design a campaign that fits your interests and resources, whether a social media campaign or a community event.
Content creation (flexible roles): Choose a role that matches your strengths and comfort level. You can create digital content (e.g., social media posts, videos, graphics) to spread awareness or work behind the scenes to help with research, event organisation, or outreach. This allows you to engage in the campaign in a way that feels right for you.
Get involved in a small-scale event or online campaign: Join a mental health awareness event, such as a peer discussion, wellness workshop, or an online awareness campaign. These smaller-scale initiatives are designed to be manageable while still having a meaningful impact on your community.
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Get your badge!Complete some activities from the list above and apply for a badge (=click the "Get this badge" button below) by submitting your campaign plan, content, or reflections on how you contributed to raising mental health awareness and reducing stigma.
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Who is behind this activity?Cities of Learning Network partners invite you to learn and do something about the European Youth Goal #5, Mental Health and Wellbeing. We value your efforts and contributions and want to reward you with badge recognition.
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Contact us for more details about the Erasmus+ co-funded project "European Youth Goals for Cities of Learning."
System&G, Greece - the project lead partner
CODEC, Belgium
Badgecraft, Lithuania
System&G Finland
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Disclaimer: We are grateful for the ideas generated by youth leaders and youth workers during the international study visits. To create this activity, humans collaborated with AI using the Youth Goals Hub GPT custom-built version, informed and inspired by the best youth work practices.
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Preuzmi značku znanja aktivnosti

Well-being Promoter Preuzmi ovu značku znanja

This badge is awarded for completing the Mental Health Awareness and Prevention Campaign activity. By leading or contributing to a mental health awareness campaign, you have shown your commitment to reducing stigma and promoting well-being in your community. This badge recognises your leadership, advocacy, and community engagement growth, helping you foster open discussions about mental health.
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Skills and experiences gained (aligned with LifeComp competences):
Leadership (connected to LifeComp Dimension P1 Self-regulation): You’ve taken the initiative in planning and contributing to a mental health awareness campaign, showing responsibility for promoting positive change.
Content creation (connected to LifeComp Dimension L2 Critical Thinking): You’ve developed skills in creating engaging digital or in-person content to spread mental health awareness.
Community engagement (connected to LifeComp S3 Collaboration): You’ve learned how to engage your community in discussions about mental health, reducing stigma and encouraging well-being.
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By completing badge tasks, you demonstrated your ability to raise awareness about mental health and promote well-being in your community. This badge recognises your efforts to reduce stigma and make mental health a more open and approachable topic for all. It acknowledges your efforts to achieve European Youth Goal #5 Mental Health and Wellbeing. Cities of Learning Network partners value badge earner's efforts and contributions and issue this badge after reviewing the provided evidence.

Morate da završite 2 zadataka da biste dobili značku znanja

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Dokaz verifikovan od strane: jedan/na organizator/ka aktivnosti

Plan a mental health awareness campaign:
Task: Contribute to planning a mental health awareness campaign with clear objectives and target audiences.
Evidence: Submit your campaign plan briefly explaining your campaign activities.

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Dokaz verifikovan od strane: jedan/na organizator/ka aktivnosti

Create and share content:
Task: Develop and share content for your mental health awareness campaign.
Evidence: Submit examples of the content you created and a reflection on its impact.

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Dokaz verifikovan od strane: jedan/na organizator/ka aktivnosti

Get involved in a small-scale event or online campaign:
Task: Get involved in a small-scale event or online campaign to promote mental health awareness.
Evidence: Provide a summary of the event explaining your role and contribution, including participant feedback.

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Aktivnosti: 5

Započeto: 1

Završena plejlista: 0

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Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

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