It's my life
- Austria,Carinthia
- 2007

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“It's my life” was a school project to strengthen the mental health of young people at vocational schools in Carinthia.
A total of six schools, each with two classes, took part in the project. After the presentation of the project in the participating classes, the students selected their topic from four subject areas. The topics were recognizing and coping with conflicts, consumer behaviour with a focus on alcohol, self-a... show more
Aims for all target groups:
Support and encouragement of the program
Promoting and strengthening the mental health of the adolescents Promotion and strengthening the emotional well-being of the adolescents Promotion and empowerment of the adolescents: self-competence
Pairs of external coaches and teachers worked with students. There were information sessions for parents, school leaders and other teachers at the BFS.
Pupils could choose the topics they worked on:
• Promotion of self-assurance
• Promotion of non-drinking and non-smoking
• Avoidance of stress and coping with stress
• Recognizing and coping with conflict
The feedback to the intervention was positive.
According to the overall intervention goal “quality of life”: A significant decrease in the areas of “emotional problems“, “behavioral problems“, “hyperactivity“ and “behavioral problems with peers“ was found.
According to the other overall intervention goals: No significant effects could be found but a positive trend for some goals.
In the intervention group with focu... show more
Health promotion for young people is closely connected with their social environment. Besides the family, a central social environment in which preventive measure can be implemented are schools: They can offer learning opportunities supporting the development of lifestyle habits that maintain and promote health.
Therefore, health promotion in school is an important issue and has grown rapidly, especially in compulsory scho... show more
A relevant part of the students (apprenticeship trainers) had visited a Polytechnicum or a Hauptschule before.
There were workshops using formative evaluation in which the implementation process was reflected.
Cooperation was not easy between the project partners (especially to the schools and the apprenticeship teachers), but they faced the quarrels, found solutions and achieved good outcomes.
Promente kijufa had the lead.
There was a steering committee consisting of promente kijufa, "Leiter des Sozialpädagogischen Teams der Fachberufsschulen in Kärnten", Landesstelle Suchprävention Kärnten, GKK, Landesschulinspektor. The university of Vienna led the formative evaluation.
Steering committee, coordinator of the network at the schools, coordinator at every school
A formative and summative evaluation was conducted (apprenticeship trainers, teachers, parents involved) and there were feedback loops.