The FRAME Foundation has launched a new project; this time aimed at supporting young people in building mental resilience. Stronger Youth is a response to the growing need for youth support. In Poland, where the challenges faced by young people are similar to those experienced by their peers across Europe, there is still a shortage of psychological and psychiatric assistance. Therefore, every initiative with a preventive character is important. The essence of the project is to strengthen young people through the most suitable communication channel—their peers. The main goal of the project is to support youth by providing them with tools for peer mentoring—a form of community self-help in which adolescents with greater mental resilience and self-organization skills support peers at risk of depression or social exclusion. Within the project, tools will be created to diagnose needs as well as scenarios for joint activities in which mentally stronger peers can support those more vulnerable to problems, while at the same time raising their own social competencies.
Stronger Youth, or “Silniejsza Młodzież” in Polish, is a project based on diagnosing the real needs of teenagers, which will be examined as a priority. For this reason, secondary schools are currently being recruited to participate in the project both at the research stage and during the pilot.
