Youth Engagement Scheme YES

The active participation of adolescents in decisions and actions that concern them is not simply good practice—it is a precondition for services to genuinely respond to their needs. The Child & Adolescent Mental Health Initiative invests systematically in this direction, developing structures, methodologies, and actions that give children and adolescents themselves the ability to express their views, co-shape, and actively contribute to public dialogue on their mental wellbeing.

In this section, you can learn about the related initiatives that have been developed, starting with the YES Υοuth Engagement Scheme. Explore its four years of operation, discover the Dialogue Actions on Adolescent Mental Wellbeing and Wellness that ran alongside YEs and can serve as inspiration for encouraging youth participation at your own school, and study the programme's reports and publications, as well as the creations of the teenage members of YES themselves to understand how to design and implement similar actions.

Every professional working with children and adolescents can benefit from this methodological material to encourage and organize initiatives, programmes, and actions within their own setting, actively involving children and adolescents.