Psychosocial support for adolescent refugees and migrants in schools.

Interventions promoting social support and social cohesion

We implement preventive psychosocial interventions in a school setting to promote adolescents’ mental and social well-being.

RefugeesWellSchool is a European funded Horizon2020 project carried out by seven different partners in six European countries (Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the United Kingdom).

Team

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Signe Smith Jervelund
Mervi Vänskä

Collaborating with schools through interventions that work on social support and cohesion.

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To better understand the influence preventive programmes can have in a school context the RefugeesWellSchool project evaluates the effectiveness and implementation processes of a set of school-based interventions for adolescent newcomers.

In-service teacher training
An important aspect of the RefugeesWellSchool project is the dissemination of the materials and results of the implementation and study.

Classroom Drama intervention