KA2 project “Art-Well“
Number: 2024-2-CZ01-KA220-YOU-000279612
1. Develop quality partnership
2. Develop descriptive analysis of specific issues and needs of marginalised youngsters
3. Exchange good practices in engaging marginalised youth in different art related practices
4. Provide marginilised youth an opportunity for self-expression, teach them on self-care
5. Support de-stigmatisation of mental health
6. Teach educators on best practices in teaching marginalised youth on self-care
7. Spread the successes of the project among relevant stakeholders
A1. Kick-off meeting
A2. Interviews development
A3. Focus groups
A4. National reports
A5. Intenrational report
A6. Workshops (4 per country)
A7. Booklets
A8. National campaigns
A9. Mobility
A10. Handbook
A11. Photos
A12. Video
A13. Landing page
A14. Multiplier event
R1. Projetc management
R1. IPA
R1.2. 5 intermediate reports
R1.3. 5 monitoring reports
R2
R2.1. Exchange of good practices
R2.2. a) English interview developed, b) 4 translation of interview
R2.3. 12 focus groups
R2.4. 4 national reports
R2.5. 1 international report
R3
R3.1.
a) 80 youngsters impacted (60% fewer op.)
b) 80+ artworks published, reaching 800+ general public
c) 80+ evaluation forms
d) 16 art activities identified”
R3.2. 4 national booklets
R3.3. 4 national campaigns reaching 800+ general public
R4
R4.1. a) 24 youth workers educated b) 120+ youth impacted
R4.2. TConcept disseminated among 100+ educators/yw
R5. Dissemination & outreach strategy
R5.1. 96 social posts, 10.000+ audience
R5.2. Educational video, 1.000+ audience
R5.3. Landing page, 300+ views
R5.4. 100+ local stakeholders
Our focus will goes on:
- LGBTQ+ young people: often face discrimination, rejection and bullying, contributing to higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide compared to their non-LGBTQ+ peers.
- Ethnic and racial minorities: They may experience racism, cultural separation, and socioeconomic
- Young people from low-income families: poverty is strongly associated with mental health problems due to associated stress, lack of resources and possible exposure to violence and neglect.
- Migrants and refugees: They often face challenges adapting to a new culture, language barriers and trauma from displacement, which can affect their mental health.
- Youth facing educational and labour market isolation, NEET people, youth at risk of marginalisation.
AT: graffiti, fashion, slam poetry, sculpting
CZ: storytelling, theater, body movement, photography
HU: poetry, painting, digital art, collage
UA: writing, singing, drawing, performance
- TG1: Marginalised youth
- TG2: Youth (16-30)
- TG3: General public (activities focused on destigmatisation of mental health issues)
- TG4: Educators
- TG5: Artists
- TG6: Stakeholders (other educational organisations both on national and international level)
- TG7: Partners organisations
Why
“(…) the young people have difficulties asking for help and managing stressful situations. The most frequent way to deal with uncomfortable situations is to avoid them, followed by leaning on the support of people’s close ones, such as friends and relatives. Strong bonds increase the perception of good support systems and the likelihood of them being ready to ask for help. In addition, in many points of the survey, the respondents showed the need to receive advice from professionals with psychological education or to follow the guidance of personal coaches and mentors. Regarding their needs, the respondents recognize that they would benefit from having more meaningful alone time. In addition, the need for physical exercise and for spending time in nature were mentioned. It is clear that external pressures limit the possibilities of young people to feel comfortable with themselves.” (source)
In sum, youngsters needs to:
- have a space where they feel safe, including a community
- get more resilient, handle stress better, and learn to express what is happening inside of them
- get educated on the topic of mental health and well-being
- learn how to be alone, and how to use the time meaningfully
- exercise more and spend more time in nature
There is great stigmatisation of “mental health problems” in partnering countries. (…) Only 6% of people choose professional help when encountering psychological problems. 60% of them try to deal with it on their own, 30% are asking for support from their friends. 4⁄5 of Czechs with psychological problems are not treated at all.
“… attitudes of social rejection towards mentally ill people in Hungary are relatively high, and there were no meaningful changes observed in public attitudes over a 15-year period.” (source)
“… there is a high lack of knowledge and understanding about most types of mental illnesss among adults in Ukraine and a high degree of social distance. There is a clear need for anti-stigma interventions in Ukraine.”
(source)
“… people just don’t talk about it [mental illnesses] openly because it is viewed as a weakness. (…) Austrians don’t talk about their own mental health because of the fear of losing their jobs. Even the most common mental illnesses like depression and anxiety are thought of as laziness or unreliability in the workplace.” (source)
In sum, stigma around mental health needs to change. We don’t believe it will happen right away, but it is important to work towards changing the societal perspective on mental health, and help its normalisation among the public.
How
When it comes to well-being, we find it beneficial to use the perspective of 4 bodies:
- physical (connected to physical health, proper exercises, diet, etc.)
- mental (connected to knowledge on mental health and well-being, as well as critical thinking, and regular exercising of the brain)
- emotional (connected to emotional intelligence, an ability to Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, and Regulate one’s emotions)
- spiritual (connected to living a life one can consider meaningful for themselves; in other words, following their dreams, and life goals, thinks that make sense to them)
With this perspective, to answer above mentioned needs, we want to use the healing power of art for:
- developing a community for youngsters where they can self-express themselves through art and beyond
- teach them art tactics for handling stress, and its regular release, which leads to bigger resilience
- educate them on the topic of mental health, self-care, and professional support
- organise activities including body movement in nature
- lead them towards planning alone time and spending it for self-care
TG3:
- spreading personal stories (especially success stories), statistics, and surveys
- organising living libraries and other events allowing interaction with public
TG4&5:
- developing a toolbox of best practices
- teaching the methods to the youth workers
TG6:
- disseminating our findings, successes, materials and learning
TG7:
- building quality international partnership
- exchanging know-how
- developing together activities for us and public
Responsibilities
INspire is responsible for coordination of the whole project, including
- administration
- communication with Czech National agency
- coordination and management of the whole project
- financial coordination and budget management
Project Coordinator (Vojtěch Žák) responsible for:
- keeping the of GANTT chart
- budget plan
- management of the budget
- regular communication with accountant (minimum 1⁄4 year checks of the budget flow)
- coordination of project managers
- publishing reports from the meeting publicly in here:
https://www.czechinspire.eu/Art-well
Project Monitoreer responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting, including:
- Creating of monthly monitoring reports within one week from the monthly managers meetings and sharing them with the consortium
- Monitoring regular progress towards the goals
- Evaluating how much the objectives have been achieved
WP2
- Kick-off meeting in Czechia
WP5 dedicated to dissemination and visibility which includes
- development of dissemination plan
- photo documentation of the whole project
- overview of partners social present and visibility of the project, including providing materials to be shared online
- developing a video on art release & community sharing
- developing and keeping a landing page with summary of outcomes, where participants art pieces will be published
- coordinating the multiplier events
- coordination of dissemination of all findings and successes
itWorks is responsible for coordinating the WP2, including
- creating guidelines for the survey (focus groups)
- coordinating local analysis of the results and reports based on them
- conducting cross-analysis of the results
- developing the final handbook, including its copywriting, proofreading, and graphical aspects
F4F is responsible for coordinating the WP3, including
- coordinating development, promotion, and implementation of local workshops for youth
- coordinating evaluation of the workshops, and our learnings from them
- developing the booklet of best practices, including its copywriting, proofreading, and graphical aspects
- supervision of developing of national campaigns on destigmatisation of mental health
EMINA is responsible for coordinating the WP4, including
- logistical preparation and coordination of mobility of youth workers
- design of the program, focused on transfer of the best practices, and its facilitation
- developing a handbook on Training Concept
- Every partner assigns 1 project manager + 1 project manager substitute. If there is a change in the team of managers, changes are immediately reported.
- Managers are meeting for monthly implementation meetings (online) to review, monitor, and manage the projects.
- There are 5 steering meetings set-up, from which we are delivering intermediate and monitoring reports.
- Project managers are led by Project Coordinator. Project coordinator is dividing tasks in consortium, managers are dividing tasks within their organisations.
Evaluation
O1 Develop quality partnership in between participating organisations
- clear agreements in the internal partnership agreements (done when IPA signed)
- partners overall keeping their deadlines (evaluated monthly)
- partners overall expressing satisfaction at the end of monthly online meetings (evaluating monthly)
In the final evaluation, as a success, we consider
- partners scoring 5 out of 7 on their satisfaction with the partnership
- clear idea on how to cooperate in the future
O2 Develop descriptive analysis of specific issues and needs of marginalised youngsters from partnering countries
- SO2.1. Research a realities of TG1 through focus groups
- SO2.2. Create a national analysis
- SO2.3. Compare the international results
- SO2.4 Produce a report based on our findings
GO2 is reached when
- 2nd focus (national) group is confirming the conclusions from focus group 1 (reliability)
- comparative and descriptive report is developed in English and disseminated
- there are specific conclusions and actions partners are able to take based on their findings
O3 Exchange good practice knowledge in engaging marginalised youth in different art related practices, learning key implementation challenges and tips for conducting, introducing new art forms into our services
- SO3.1. Discovering the specific needs
- SO3.2. Identify the best art practices for educating marginilised youth on self-care
- SO3.3. Identify the best strategies in implementing the art practices
- SO3.4. Exchanging our findings
GO3 is reached when
- every partner can identify a specific needs of marginalised youth from their audience and strategy how to answer this need
- every partner can identify a specific “good practices” they learned from the others
O4 Provide marginilised youth an opportunity for self-expression, teach them on self-care practices based on art approach, and offer them alternatives to social media induced isolation through engagement in art based activities
- SO4.1. Create a safe space for youngsters to self-express through art and learn self-help tool
- SO4.2. Document artworks from participants, digitize them, and promote them to raise awareness on mental health issues
- SO4.3. Evaluate the impact on the participants
- SO4.4. Identify best national practices
GO4 is reached when
- 4 national art workshops of 4+ hours are organised, with participation of at least 20 youth, where at least 12 of them are marginalised.
- at least 60 % of participants recognizes a positive effects of the workshops on their wellbeing
- at least 60 % of participants are able to name a specific strategies they an use for their well-being
O5 Support de-stigmatisation of mental health among youth and public in general
- SO5.1. Bring awareness on different mental difficulties people are struggling with
GO5 is reached when
- 4 national campaigns on destigmatisation of mental health are released
- 3200+ people are affected by the campaign
O6 Teach educators on best practices in teaching marginalised youth on self-care
- SO6.1. Teach 24 youth workers diverse art activities for well-being
- SO6.2. Exchange the best practices among participating countries
- SO6.3. Disseminate their teaching among 120+ youth
- SO6.4. Develop a handbook on a training concept and disseminate it
GO6 is reached when
- 24 youth workers take part in the mobility
- 24 participants will name their learnings (specific art activities) in the evaluation form
- 24 participants indicate at least 5 out of 7 level of satisfaction with the mobility, and at least on 5 out of 7 according the Bloom’s taxonomy for non-formal education, in the competence to run the art activities for well-being with their target groups
- 24 participants implement 4 local actions for youngsters (120+)
O7 Spread the successes of the project among relevant stakeholders
- SO7.1. Photo-document the whole project
- SO7.2. Develop and disseminate a video on art release and community sharing
- SO7.3. Develop a landing page on centralising all results
- SO7.4. Implement 4 multipliers events to spread the learnings
GO7 is reached when
- 4 multiplier events are implemented
- ME reaching at least 100 different stakeholders
- at least 80 % of participants reports through a evaluation form on a specific tools they gained during the multiplier event
- they are going to use in their work with youth
- there is 96 social posts published, with reach of at least 10.000+ audience
- there is an educational video created and released, reaching at least 1.000+ audience
- there is a landing page regularly updated (on monthly basis), reaching minimum 300 views until the end of the project (the landing page is staying active, as it will be part of INspire website)
Dissemination channels
There will be a minimum of 1 social post per month, cross-post by all partners.
As main channels, we count Facebook,
and Instagram, support channels might be TikTok, Discord, etc.
TG1, 2, 3
On INspire website will be created as a crossroad of all main info and relevant outcomes of the project. All involved TGs.
One of the outcomes is educational video that will be shared through Youtube and other social networks.
All involved TGs
Partners are sending regular newsletter to their target groups through which they are informing on all the activities.
Mostly TG1&2
Partners have a newsletter for other partner organisations from their network where they are going to share their findings
and outcomes. TG4, 5 & 6.
In multiplier events, we are going to invite relevant local stakeholders from our networks, and beyond. TG4,5&6
During a project, an online campaign on de-stigmatisation of mental health will be developed, which will involve a unique graphic, sharing information we have learned so far, engaging public, and local communities. We intend to involve universities and other NGOs in the process to support us with spreading the message. All TGs.
We will share relevant results in online databases for professionals like Salto Youth, or Session.lab. TG4,5&6
WP2
Project monitor