Mental Health Promotion of Children up to 6 Years (1997-1999)

Supported by the European Commission, DG Health and Consumer Protection

There is strong evidence that the early years of life have a crucial impact on mental health throughout the life cycle. The development of strategies to promote the mental health of young children is therefore of fundamental importance. This involves raising awareness of the significance of the mental well-being of children, as well as interventions to support parenting, to facilitate the relationship between parents and children, to improve child-rearing conditions and to protect vulnerable children.

The Project had five objectives

• To develop a concept of positive mental health promotion in pre-school age
• To identify, collect and categorise successful examples of model programmes
• To organise the exchange of information and experiences
• To develop indicators for effective activities in mental health promotion for children
• To advise the European Commission on mental health promotion

The Directory of Projects on Mental Health promotion for Children up to 6 Years contains a wide range of projects collected in the 15 EU Member Sates and Norway. From the 195 projects submitted, 27 projects have been selected as particularly good examples of interventions, which demonstrate documented evidence of effectiveness and which could be replicated across Europe.

Directory Mental Health Promotion Children up to 6 (pdf)

For more information, please contact info@mhe-sme.org

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