Development and implementation of a pilot community-based prevention programme, with emphasis on the risk behaviour of children and youth

Risky behaviour that prevents mental illness in children and adolescents is a central theme of all key actors in prevention. The initial state builds on past strategies.

Analysis of strategic documents, secondary data analysis, theoretical approaches and evidence-based programs.

Outputs of the analysis of strategic documents emphasise prevention, health/information literacy, interconnection at the community level, social and situational prevention. The aim is to build on the two projects - Developing a national prevention strategy project 1 and 2, focusing on all professions/areas working in prevention.

We need to address this issue through a comprehensive set of individually and environmentally focused activities and a range of strategies implemented across community sectors. Create and implement a basic educational module for prevention and its modifications, which we will adapt to three localities Professional training and evaluation information activities.

The contribution introduces the partial parts of the project, their interconnection, selection of the target group and regions/localities, the data from the analysis. Modules aimed at preventing mental illness in children and adolescents, according to International Classification of Diseases 10 - substance and non-substance addictions (F10 to F19, F63 ), non-addictive substance abuse (F55), eating disorders (F50) and self-harm as a symptom considered across the psychiatric spectrum. We will also focus on the sustainability of the whole project and its future dissemination.

We want to present the interim results in our contribution after one and a half years of work. Our goal is to connect this cross-sectoral nature and set up the infrastructure. The project aims to increase mental health and well being in children by creating and piloting a regional educational module to prevent mental illness in children and adolescents.