"Peaasi.ee – e-consultation, web platform and digital solutions on mental health for Estonian

youth"

Anna-Kaisa Oidermaa, project managerNGO Peaasjad

03.12.2014.,Tallinn

NGO Peaasjad (Head Matters)

NGO Peaasjad (Head Matters): since 2009.

Mission: To improve young people’s mental health and reduce mental health stigma in Estonia.

Team members: (mental health specialists; psychologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, mental health nurse, occupational therapist. Youth work specialists; youth workers, trainers. Semiotician, public relations consultant, designer, et al)

Web portal Peaasi.ee: Young people can be reached on the Internet.

Project: "Peaasi.ee – e-consultation, web platform and digital solutions on mental health for Estonian youth"

Main goals:

• to raise awareness of mental health topics among young people and people working with young people, decrease the stigmatisation of people with mental health problems;

• support better access to mental health services by fostering help-seeking behaviour;

• prevent and relieve mental health problems, facilitate early interventions.

- Target group: young people 14-26. Secondary target groups: teachers, youth workers, parents, mental health specialists, friends, family.

- Main actions: e-counseling, interactive self-help tools, brain training exercises, starting conversations on mental health.

- Funded by: The project is financed by Norway Grants 2009-2014 Public Health Initiatives programme. The programme operator in Estonia is the Ministry of Social Affairs.

e-counseling

• Counselors are specialists with clinical experience

- Help to define the problem;

- How, where and what kind of specialist to get help from;

- Advice on what to do in the moment to increase mental well-being.

Interactive self-help tools

• Based on cognitive-behavioral therapy and Peaasi.ee team members’ clinical experience

• On the web or in the form of apps

• For young people who have diagnoses of disorders

• For young people who have any distressing symptoms

• Address some of the most common problems (Fear Fighter, The Boss of Anger, Thought Tamer, etc)

Brain training exercises

• Based on neuropsychology and cognitive remediation therapy

• For young people who have deterioration in cognitive functions due to psychiatric illness (depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders)

• For young people who want to improve cognitive functioning (memory, attention, etc)

Starting conversations, dialogues on mental health

Raising awareness, helping to form attitudes, to find appropriate behaviours

• With young people

• With teachers

• With youth workers

• With parents

• With media

• With artists

• With anyone who has mental health

- Seminars, lectures, trainings, articles, web and social media...

Peaasi.ee Partners

anna-kaisa.oidermaa@peaasi.ee