Resilience program for young people
with a focus on “learners”
Challenges faced by young people
Facts and figures
75%
… of mental disorders begin before the age of 25.
41 %
According to vocational trainers, less than half of the apprenticeships are unproblematic. There were problems in over 26% of cases.
4,5 Std./Tag
Duration of use of social media by 13 to 23-year-olds in Switzerland. Three quarters of respondents underestimated the duration.
37 %
This is how many 17 to 19-year-olds in Switzerland say they suffer from mental health problems.
Why young people today are mentally challenged
There are many reasons for mental health problems. Here are three of the most important causes.
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Multi-crisis
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Lack of competence in self-management
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Overburdened family; lack of solidarity
What can strengthen young people
Strengthened resilience and support systems for better health and success
Key competencies
What are the main skills that help young people to overcome their challenges? Among other things:
- Self-awareness, self-empowerment & self-control
- Self-acceptance, self-efficacy & self-esteem
- Relationship skills & networking
- Communication skills and conflict management
- Impulse control and emotion regulation
- Ability to concentrate
- Perseverance & goal orientation
- Media competence
- Environment and task-related skills
Strengthening resources & systems
Numerous studies and surveys suggest that young people can be mentally healthier, happier and more resilient if they are part of functional and empowering systems. These should be:
- Enable / promote empowering relationships, belonging and affection
- Contain clear structures and fair rules
- Ensure psychological safety
- Promote self-efficacy and a sense of purpose
- Enable experimentation, discovery, involvement, making mistakes and co-creation
- Include creativity & inspiration in the learning process
- Promote individual development
Our understanding of resilience
Resilience is trainable and volatile. Failure is part of growth.
1. Self-Leadership
2. Health Literacy
3. Connectedness
4. Purpose & Solution Orientation
5. Acceptance & Adaption
6. Personal Responsibility
7. Realistic Optimism
WHY – our vision
We strengthen young people in their resilience. Needs-based and sustainable.
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Together with representatives from business, health promotion and other partners, we develop effective programs that strengthen young people’s resilience.
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We are turning young people from victims into participants – initially with a pilot resilience program for learners. In this way, we create the basis for expanding the services for other young people.
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In a second step, the impact of the pilot program unfolds throughout Switzerland and includes other relevant systems – in particular legal guardians, vocational trainers, instructors, mentors, etc.
Development & implementation
Effectiveness is the goal. Participation and equality is the path.
A. Raising awareness
- Motivating and informing the target group: topics of resilience, mental health, self-management, reflected, positive use of media
- Involvement of other target groups (legal guardians, vocational trainers, instructors by arrangement)
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B. Inclusion of
- Designing effective offers (online/offline) together with the learners (young people)
- Involvement of young people from secondary schools, apprentices and apprenticeship graduates / apprenticeship drop-outs
- Program development: focus 3-4 years (incl. integration of existing effective offers)
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C. Activate
Impact through:
- Motto: Being allowed to try things out instead of having to be able to; shaping instead of tolerating;
- Promotion: self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-management – resilience
- Social incentives: “strengthening” others through one’s own behavior e.g. “jogging” triggers a donation to “Velafrica”
- Synergy effects: Use of existing resources (e.g. Atélier du futur – Mobiliar, etc.), multipliers (e.g. KV Zurich), media (e.g. TagesAnzeiger), etc.
- Creativity & self-efficacy: learners as podcasters; artists; consultants
- Mentoring: young people as mentee and mentor (role reversal)
- Campaigning: communication in the (social) media
D. Multiplication
- Concept for spreading the target group from the pilot project to other affected parties (pupils at grammar schools; vocational school students from all over Switzerland; young people from precarious backgrounds, etc.)
- Increased integration of the relevant target groups (with a focus on parents/guardians; elementary school, etc.)
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Resilience projects that specifically strengthen
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