Description
The project is needed to teach parents how to raise children and teach specialists through series of trainings. The purpose is to promote and enhance comprehensively the mental health and well-being of youth and adolescents in Nõmme district, preventing and reducing the risk of youth and adolescent delinquency. The method of shared concern is a method for intervention that is based on mediation, and is therefore especially suitable for solving the hidden bullying incidents of teens. Nõmme educational specialists will receive four in-depth trainings for the method of shared concern during sixteen months (16 academic hours), which will be followed by the case-specific follow-up trainings (8 academic hours). In total 60 specialists will be trained. At the same time, parents are offered educational program, in total 10 lectures, on the related topics. Lectures are open to general public, the number of participants is not limited.
Summary of project results
Approximately 22% of pupils in Estonia suffer from bullying. Most of the victims do not know how and where from to seek for help. Specialists working with children and youth at risk do not have enough knowledge how to deal with them. To help children better, specialists need training and this was the main goal of the Project. Specialists who were trained now know how to use Shared Concern method. Altogether 60 specialists within 6 days were trained. Also meetings between specialists were held and they will be continued to support each other and exchange experiences how to help children better. Because of a good advertising, parents of the Nõmme district pupils were held lectures in the schools of Nõmme. Very popular events fulfilled auditoriums of the schools with altogether 641 parents.
Summary of bilateral results