UJA researcher David Jiménez participated in this informative event organized by the Provincial Council of Jaén and the Dinamia Association in the city of Jaén.
24/10/2024.- The University of Jaén disseminated the materials for the promotion of health and emotional well-being of young people generated by the PROADEMO project at the Provincial Meeting of Youth Technical Staff held at the Antiguo Hospital de San Juan de Dios in the city of Jaén.
This event, organized by the Provincial Council of Jaén through its brand Jaenícolas and the Provincial Association of Youth Technicians ‘Dinamia’, brought together about 40 professionals and policy makers of Youth in the province of Jaén. At the institutional level, it was attended by the deputy of Equality and Youth, Mª Dolores Ruiz, and the president of ‘Dinamia’, Antonio Lara.
The thematic axes of the day dealt with artificial intelligence, the Erasmus plus program for youth technical professionals and emotional education and mental health. Within this framework, the researcher of the Department of Psychology of the UJA, David Jimenez presented the resources developed in the project ‘PROmocionAnDo the health and emotional well-being of adolescents in the education sector, health and society’ (PROADEMO).
Specifically, David Jimenez delved into the set of practical tools for the emotional support of adolescents aimed at educational, health and youth professionals, and the young people themselves that have been carried out. The aim of this project is to provide a series of free materials aimed at improving the skills of workers in these sectors when helping the adolescent population at risk of suffering emotional problems.
Among these resources, youth technicians have a three-session emotional training guide for professionals; a 22-chapter practical tools guide for professionals, which is complemented by a triage tool to classify the seriousness and urgency of the most frequent incidents they may face in their interaction with young people; and a series of informative videos aimed at adolescents themselves to promote their resilience and increase their emotional literacy. In turn, PROADEMO offers classroom or online training courses to transfer this knowledge.
These materials, which can be downloaded free of charge from the project website, have been co-generated by an interdisciplinary group of experts in Psychology, Anthropology and Journalism, of which David Jiménez himself has been a member, together with UJA researchers Luis Joaquín García, Lourdes Espinosa, José Antonio Muela, Jesús Sánchez, Manuel Vivas, Álvaro Muela and Adelina Ocaña.
In the elaboration and edition of this kit, the PROADEMO project has counted with the collaboration and support of an External Advisory Council composed of nine entities: the Spanish Youth Institute (INJUVE), attached to the Ministry of Youth and Children, the Spanish Youth Council (CJE), the European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA), the Princess of Girona Foundation (FPdGi), the Integral Health group of the FELGTBI+, the Asociación Española de Ayuda Mutua contra Fobia Social y Trastornos de Ansiedad (AMTAES), the Confederación de Organizaciones de Psicopedagogía y Orientación de España (COPOE), the Asociación Andaluza de Técnicos de la Juventud (AATJ) and the Asociación Asturiana para la atención y el cuidado de la infancia (ASACI).
PROADEMO is a project PDC2022-133401-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the State Research Agency and the European Union through the “Next Generation EU” funds within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan).
