Based on the holistic approach of education, teachers and helping professionals should promote the education as the development of the whole person including the help and support of the mental health of their pupils. However, in many cases teachers are under-equipped to help students with increasing mental health problems. Our aim is to address the priority group of teachers, school leaders and other teaching and helping professions to get adequate knowledge, support and understanding to be able to recognise and give front-line support to pupils with mental health problems.

This approach requires the training of teachers on self-knowledge and self-esteem that can strengthen the teachers’ ability to identify the problems of their pupils and to provide proper mental health support. As additional priorities, the other aim of our project is to support the children with anxiety, stress, burnout, social and emotional distress. Factors within the school environment have been identified to have an impact on young people’s mental health. The supportive teacher-student relationships are associated with the students’ better mental health, for this reason we would like to improve the key competences of the students by developing physical, social, and artistic interventions that can promote the child’s well-being. Consequently, the preventive and intervention activities of the project could relieve the burden on the school psychologist and health care system (e.g. pediatric psychiatric institutions).

Child and adolescent mental health conditions pose a public health challenge, however, a number of children suffering from mental health conditions are not accessing the help they need.

Our goal is to include these children with less opportunities to the mental health intervention strategies with physical, social, and artistic activities to give them flexible, integrative, and personalized support according to the horizontal priority (inclusion and diversity in all fields education, training, youth and sport). By using these intervention tools, the children can have access to mental health support in school settings.