[YMHBB] Youth Mental Health Beyond Borders

What we hope to achieve

• New Understanding of Youth Mental Health: Seeing youth mental health as something that belongs to everyone and respects all young people's different experiences

• New Skills: Helping decision-makers learn fun and creative ways to work with young people for policy change

• Better Follow-Through: Finding ways to make sure young people's ideas actually happen

Activities

Legislative Theatre Workshop (23-24, 11am-3pm)

• We build on youth mental health recommendations developed by young people in previous projects in Manchester and Barcelona

• Young people and decision-makers from Barcelona and Manchester work together using Legislative Theatre to think creatively about translating these proposals into change

• What are the barriers to enacting young people’s ideas? How can we strengthen participation all the way through implementation?

• Working towards a best-practice guide for the policymakers, community groups and young activists

Legislative Theatre Event (25 June, 12-3pm) INVITE-ONLY

• Focused LT-process to cocreate a guide for policy makers and advocacy partners in GM, Barcelona and beyond: moving from civic participation through to implementation

Digital Workshop (26 June, 12-3pm)

• Cocreate a fanzine bringing together learning from the LT workshop on youth participation/ activism on mental health

• Continue to develop the Decidim online platform to help push forward the agreements and outcomes of the legislative theatre process