Code 2 Mental Health

Aims & objectives

The project aims to engage youth workers in a specific experiential learning tool, empower them with skills of how to use educational escape rooms in youth work and connect youth workers from different countries to learn from each other.

The objectives:
Provide time and space for youth workers to learn about educational escape rooms

Empower youth workers with skills of creating an
educational escape room on mental health

Create 3-4 escape room prototypes to test in a local event

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

The target group of the activity was adult people working with youth in different areas of youth work such as teachers, special pedagogs, youth workers, youth center workers etc. The countries participating was Estonia, Italy, Finland, Latvia, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey

Training methods used & main activities

Non-formal methods and the use of Awesome Peoples educational escape rooms,

Link to activity

https://www.facebook.com/AwesomePeopleSE/posts/pfbid0JwB7htQ4uitY11xhx4dJ8hL7EPi8BFS7W6n2bpHxDyByYajPCF4PwNWiUTqPun2Yl

Outcomes of the activity

The activity's outcome was that all participants learned how to create and use educational escape rooms in their youth work and after the training, they went home and created their own version of a topic with youth.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Creating the training together with trainer and facilitator Karin Wouda. And facilitating the training

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.

Testimonial of the reference person

The training took place and me and Fredrik were the trainers.