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Strengthening and Protecting the Mental Health of Young People
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Connecting Young People to Resources and Services

 

Young people reported a lack of knowledge on mental health and the support system, leading to a sense of insecurity and possibly a delay of help-seeking.

Improved health literacy among young people may facilitate help-seeking through mechanisms of awareness of service availability and symptom recognition (Velasco et al., 2020 as cited in Westberg et al., 2022).

As was before said, all development stakeholders have important roles to play and civil society can play an important role in supporting people with mental health conditions. That can be done through direct service provision and advocacy to access needed resources and to integrate into the community.

Services provided could include social services, education programmes and livelihood projects. Depending on particular strenghts of the organizations they can raise awareness and build capacity to reduce stigma or provide support and services, educate communities about mental health issues and advocate for improved services (WHO, 2003).

Directions for mental health promotion and protection by the WHO (2012) regarding supporting vulnerable groups in society are the following: conduct awareness raising campaigns, foster responsible reporting in the media, develop and implemet social inclusion policies, make education available and accessible to all.

Considering the stigma that people with mental disordes face, campaigns that serve to raise awareness can play a valualbe role in reshaping public attitudes (WHO, 2012).

Directions for mental health promotion and protection regarding supporting vulnerable groups by WHO

1) Conduct awareness raising campaigns

2) Foster responsible reporting in the media

3) Develop and implemet social inclusion policies

4) Make education available and accessible to all

Considering the stigma that people with mental disordes face, campaigns that serve to raise awareness can play a valualbe role in reshaping public attitudes (WHO, 2012).