Program duration: 09/11/2022 - 01/02/2024

“Caring for my child”: Child and family mental health program

The program “Caring for my child” is implemented by the Prolepsis Institute with the support of NN Hellas and aims at promoting mental health among children and families through raising awareness, providing information, and organizing educational actions.

The program, which started in April 2022, seeks to empower and strengthen the roles of parents, guardians, and elderly family members by preventing and dealing with daily mental health problems regarding their relationship with their children. These problems can be associated with both the modern way of life and the COVID-19 pandemic, which has left significant psychosocial effects on children and teenagers (e.g. high stress levels, feelings of loneliness, anger). Due to insufficiency of targeted actions and initiatives that respond to these current challenges, it is necessary to implement an integrated program to promote family mental health.

The program aims to empower all family members by strengthening their relationships and creating educational opportunities for parents, guardians and elderly family members regarding significant mental health matters. It focuses on five thematic units: Mental Health Resilience, Addictions, Bullying, Self-Esteem & Social Media, Intergenerational Relationships and Mental Health.

Interactive training and experiential workshops are held for each thematic unit as part of the program with free participation. While participating in the actions, parents, guardians, and the elderly family members will have the opportunity to gather information and discuss with experts about mental health-related topics. In addition, participants will have access to resources and tools while getting trained to cope with challenges.

Interactive trainings and hands-on workshops are conducted online. The program provides a digital platform which offers information on key topics for the whole family, activities and tools focused on children’s and parents’ interaction, and suggestions for games, movies and books regarding the association of mental health with different topics.

You can visit our website here: noiazomai.prolepsis.gr