The CJE maintains its collaboration with the PROEM Network and the UJA, following its advisory role in the initiatives to promote health and emotional well-being in young people, DAREMOS and PROCARE.
23/05/2023.- The professor of the University of Jaén (UJA), Luis Joaquín García, and the 1st Vice-President of the Spanish Youth Council (CJE), Laura Selena Báez Benítez, met telematically to evaluate the joint work between the PROEM Network, the UJA and the CJE.
Luis Joaquín García explained the basis of the project ‘PROmocionAnDo la salud y el bienestar EMOcional de los adolescentes en el sector educativo, sanitario y la sociedad’ (PROADEMO), which seeks 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.
Luis Joaquin Garcia also explained the objectives of this initiative aimed at the design and development of a complete digital training package for school personnel, youth and health workers, in order to enhance their skills and knowledge to establish and provide quality mental health services to adolescents at risk of developing emotional problems as a result of the pandemic.
For her part, Laura Selena Báez Benítez, as head of Feminism, Human Rights and EU Dialogue with Youth, showed her interest in the research and dissemination work carried out since 2018 by the PROEM Network, especially regarding topics such as gender violence or violence within intrafamily relationships).
At the end of the meeting, Laura Selena Baez Benitez confirmed the integration of the CJE as a member of the External Advisory Board of PROADEMO, in the same way as previously done with two 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 progress made in the DAREMOS and PROCARE initiatives
During their meeting, Luis Joaquín García also presented 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 emphasized 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 pointed out the success 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 the 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,” Luis Joaquín García apostilled.
The DAREMOS initiative is a nationwide project involving researchers from different departments of the UJA and the Institute of Biomedical Research of Malaga (IBIMA), in collaboration with Yotta Code, a 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 Spanish Youth Council, other entities and institutions have also been part of the External Advisory Board of DAREMOS and PROCARE, such as the Spanish Association of Mutual Help against Social Phobia and Anxiety Disorders (AMTAES), 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 Instituto de la Juventud de España (INJUVE), attached to the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030.
