Stowarzyszenie KAS Kombinat Aktywności Społecznej

In the erasmus program our project ideas refer to three aerias: KA210 -YOU KA152-YOU KA153-YOU Our main aim is to pair up with an organization with which, by drawing on mutual experiences, we will be able to work on the most effective ways to involve the local community in work to build a friendly environment for the mental well-being of community members - especially young people. Our place of operation is Radom and the Radomski subregion in the Mazowieckie Voivodship in Poland. So far, in the last two years, as part of activities for the mental health of young people, we have created the Civic Program for the Promotion of Mental Health of Children and Youth in the city of Radom, in which, based on the diagnosis of the local environment, we have proposed a number of solutions to improve the mental health care system in our city. link to our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/stowarzyszeniekas/ and website stowarzyszeniekas.pl We launched the first social service in the field of mental health care by engaging over 30 volunteers to run an information centre where young people and their parents can come and talk about the difficulties they face and to receive reliable information about where they can continue to seek professional help in further work on the problem. Volunteers working at the centre were trained in the field of psychological first aid, mapping, specifying and detailing complex problems, and how to support in the process of going through change. In their work, they also use the database of entities providing mental health assistance in our city, which our organization has created. We also conduct psycho-educational campaigns, classes and workshops in local schools. The key areas we would like to address during the project are: - methods for animation and long-term involvement of the local community in activities - increase in personal and specialist skills of members of our organizations in the field of social animation - development of a model scenario creating "community based mental health services", based on specific ideas and examples - dissemination of the idea of community-based mental health services Another aim is to reach out to eurpean organisations working with young people and on behalf of the youth in order to organise a youth exchange and and youth workers exchange in order to deseminate good practices on how to equip young people with knowledge on how to use and create psychological supportive environement.