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
Meet the team-
Natalie Durbeej
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Mervi Vänskä
Collaborating with schools through interventions that work on social support and cohesion.
Tell me more-
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.
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An important aspect of the RefugeesWellSchool project is the dissemination of the materials and results of the implementation and study.
Other Institutions work to provide communities a better life. We take an example from that.
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Refugee Youth in Public Space
A research project on the everyday experiences of young refugees and asylum seekers in public spaces
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RWS – Parental involvement
In the RefugeesWellSchool research project, we attach great importance to parental involvement.
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CON-FRONT
RefugeesWellSchool was invited by CON-FRONT to present its work to promote the psychosocial well-being of young refugees and migrants across the EU.
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Augeo Foundation’s online course ‘Supporting refugee youths’ goes North
the aim of the INSETT intervention is to make teachers and schools 'refugee competent'
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Interesting !
New review article in "Social Science and Medicine" which looks at school-based mental health programmes for adolescent migrants in high income countries
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RefugeesWellSchool and MedLitRefYouth projects in HORIZON
Schools and media literacy critical for teen refugees’ social wellbeing A quarter of the migrants and refugees who entered Europe last year were children, while nearly 15,000 refugee children were resettled here – mostly in the UK, France and Sweden. Helping these teenagers to feel socially supported is crucial to their wellbeing and creating […]