Fostering relationships at school: educators’ evaluations of former youth mentor program experiences

Coyne-Foresi, Melissa; Nowicki, Elizabeth

doi:10.1080/13664530.2021.1924248

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“…All these issues should be taken into consideration in planning mental health promotion through community volunteers or paraprofessionals, who hold unique community wisdom but do not have a professional background. For example, peer mental health educators in previous research valued financial reimbursement, training, support and role flexibility ( Tisdale et al ., 2021 ), and reported that their role had benefited their personal growth ( Coyne-Foresi and Nowicki, 2021 ). However, these were rarely integrated in service systems ( Gopalan et al ., 2017 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Youth-led co-production of mental health promotion in Pakistan: intergenerational influences

Vostanis,

Hassan,

Fatima

et al. 2024

Health Promotion International

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Youth with mental health needs face barriers in seeking and accessing help, especially in resource-constrained settings in Majority World Countries. Community engagement is thus important for mental health promotion, particularly in addressing stigma. Engagement can be enhanced by involving peer educators and by relating to intergenerational experiences in the sociocultural context of the community. The aim of this study was to explore how intergenerational experiences and perspectives can inform the co-production of youth-led mental health promotion in a Majority World Country, Pakistan. We recruited 11 families (one grandmother, mother and granddaughter in each family) as advisers from two disadvantaged areas of Karachi, and 14 peer educators. Training for peer educators included seminars, experiential activities, three participatory workshops with family advisers and supervision. A sub-sample of family advisers and peer educators attended four focus groups, and peer educators completed reflective diaries following each activity. Data were integrated and subjected to thematic codebook analysis. The three themes related to enabling and hindering factors towards co-production of mental health promotion, incorporation of intergenerational resilience and cascading knowledge to communities. The findings highlighted potential benefits of youth-led mental health promotion that contextualizes intergenerational experiences for those communities. Peer educator roles should be supported by training, and mental health promotion should be integrated within local service systems.

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confidence: 99%