Kids in the context of mental Disorders: Skill training to empower Teachers, Health Professionals and Social Workers - KIDS STRENGHTS

Actonym: KIDS STRENGHTS
Start: 01/10/2009
End: 30/09/2011
Duration: 24 months
Web site: www.strong-kids.eu

Target group: Teachers, Health Professionals, Social Workers, Training institutions

Target sectors: social work, child minding, Early Childhood Intervention, pre-school, school, health

General Aim: Increase of knowledge and skills of professionals and training institutions in diverse sectors towards new emerging challenges of mentally vulnerable families. This is primarily reached by transferring recently created EU-material by using ICT: resource pool, seminars and too online.

Expected results:

1) Tailor made adaptations towards methodological needs of diverse professional sectors
2) By 4 core modules into language variants (DE; FI, PT, ES, TR, SK, EN, HU)
- 1 Information (impact of a mental illness on children)
- 2 assessment of resources and risks of the children = ICT-based resilience map
- 3 Communication with parents “Lets talk about children”
- 4 “Fostering resilience”
3) Making available training materials – regarding online-learning in a PORTAL
4) Pilot tests in diverse professional groups
(AT: social worker, PT Early Childhood, ES: psychologists, SK: Pedagogues, HU: preschool teacher, TR: teachers, FI medical staff)
6) Starting processes to integrate the modules into mainstream training of the professionals
7) Core Modular program– methodically differentiated for 7 sectoral groups
8) 8 Language variants of the core modules and methodological specifications
9) Online Portal guaranteeing easy accessibility and availability of concrete working tools
10) Strategy of mainstream transfer into curricula for social workers, kindergarten teachers


Partners: 15 partners form 9 countries (DE; FI, PT, ES, TR, SK, EN, HU, BG)