INJUVE will continue its collaboration with the PROEM Network and UJA, following its advisory work in the initiatives for the promotion of health and emotional well-being in young people, DAREMOS and PROCARE.
23/01/2023.- The professor of the University of Jaén (UJA), Luis Joaquín García, and the Head of the Planning and Evaluation Service of the Spanish Youth Institute (INJUVE), Miriam Noriega, met telematically to evaluate the joint work between the PROEM Network, the UJA and INJUVE.
Luis Joaquín García presented the keys to the project ‘PROmocionAnDo la salud y el bienestar EMOcional de los adolescentes en el sector educativo, sanitario y la sociedad’ (PROADEMO), which aims to develop a methodology that promotes the active participation of adolescents and social agents in the development of guidelines for national and European policies, as well as the drafting of documents in a child-friendly language.
In this way, Luis Joaquín García elaborated on the objectives of this initiative focused on the design and development of a complete digital training package, aimed at school personnel, young people and health workers, so that they can improve their skills and knowledge to establish and provide mental health services to adolescents at risk of developing emotional problems as a consequence of the pandemic.
For her part, Miriam Noriega emphasized “the important research and dissemination work being carried out since 2018 by the PROEM Network”. Likewise, she confirmed the incorporation of INJUVE, an agency attached to the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, as a member of the External Advisory Council of PROEADEMO, as has previously been carried out with similar initiatives for the promotion of health and emotional well-being in young people such as DAREMOS and PROCARE.
PROADEMO is a project (PDC2022-133401-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the State Research Agency and the European Union through the “Next Generation EU” funds within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
Presentation of the progress achieved in the DAREMOS and PROCARE initiatives.
In turn, Luis Joaquín García took advantage of the meeting with Miriam Noriega to present the results of the PROCARE and DAREMOS projects, two initiatives that have provided free emotional support to adolescents with emotional problems during the pandemic and post-pandemic stage.
The UJA professor valued the impact of DAREMOS, a pioneering worldwide interdisciplinary initiative (Psychology, Epigenetics, Corpus Linguistics and Big Data) focused on the early identification of adolescents at high risk of developing emotional problems. Likewise, he indicated the follow-up of PROCARE, the first selective prevention program aimed at young people between 12 and 18 years of age at risk of suffering emotional problems at a stage conditioned by psychosocial difficulties after COVID-19. “The results of the intervention and booster session carried out indicate the reduction of emotional problems, improvement in subjective quality of life and greater regulation of emotions among the young participants, and among their families, even 12 months after the intervention,” said Luis Joaquín García.
The DAREMOS initiative is a national project involving researchers from different departments of the UJA and the Institute of Biomedical Research of Malaga (IBIMA), in collaboration with Yotta Code, spin off of the UJA.
The PROCARE initiative is a national project involving professionals from the Psychology Department of the UJA, the Rovira i Virgili University, the Miguel Hernández University of Elche and the University of Miami (USA).
Together with the Instituto de la Juventud (INJUVE), other entities and institutions such as the Asociación Española de Ayuda Mutua contra Fobia Social y Trastornos de Ansiedad (AMTAES) (Spanish Association of Mutual Help against Social Phobia and Anxiety Disorders), the Confederación de Organizaciones de Psicopedagogía y Orientación de España (COPOE), the Youth Group of the Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Trans, Bisexuales, Intersexuales y más (FELGTBI+) and the Consejo de la Juventud de España (CJE).
