GET EMOTIONAL: depressions, anxiety, mental disorders – what can we do?

Want to do something different for Mental Health? Support the EMOTIVA-TE project and help us transform education, promoting Emotional Intelligence!

During the pandemic, two young friends met for a walk. One of them had attended a psychologist for 5 years for depressive problems and another had just started attending after the death of his parents.

Both came to the conclusion that they were not prepared for the emotional management of their problems and that they had to go alone in search of stability.

In this line of reasoning, they took an extra step – “what if the tools we found along the way, which were so useful to us, were disseminated and taught to the population? Could it save thousands of people from suffering?” - They thought.

They didn't know the answer to this question, but they promised to go look for it.

"I have two kinds of problems, urgent and important. Urgent ones aren't important, and important ones are never urgent." - Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President of the United States

Mental health in recent decades is a problem that fits into the second category: it was important, but not urgent. However, after the pandemic, the course changed - it became an urgent problem, even more so in a country like Portugal, the 2nd in Europe where this type of disease is most prevalent.

What's the best solution? As the saying goes, “prevention is better than cure”. It is necessary to invest in the prevention of this problem and not in the remedy. More psychologists and more drugs are measures to intervene in the symptom of a problem that has already surfaced. Are measurements useful? Of course they are. But what if it were possible to minimize the problem from even surfacing? As a result, lower costs and saving the population from suffering? – Prevention is the Solution!

To prevent, R3SET believes that it is necessary to invest in EDUCATION . For this reason, the R3SET Association created an innovative curriculum that aims to develop young people's socio-emotional skills at school. Competencies that are correlated with greater well-being and better mental health.

This innovative curriculum incorporates 3 strands, each associated with a project partner, specialized in the area. These aspects are:

• Montessori Pedagogy – Porto Montessori School

• Meditation for Children – The Little Buddha

• Social-emotional skills - Original Kids

Our dream and vision is to have a compulsory subject in this forum in the near future – a subject in which socio-emotional skills are developed!

And we have good news…! We can say that in the next school year we will take the first step to make this dream come true: Our curriculum will be implemented in 3 public schools in the Lisbon area, working with those who need it most.

Do you want to contribute to doing something different? Support our project and help us to mitigate mental health problems, so present in our Portugal. Let's make R3SET together with society!

About the author

The R3SET Association emerged in the context of a pandemic, in a conversation between two friends, who were debating existing problems in Portuguese society. A transversal problem that, at the time, was accentuated by the pandemic situation, was the lack of popular knowledge of what mental health was and the existing support.

In this way, the R3SET Association wants to help prevent the number of mental illnesses by making society aware of the need to change the way we deal with psychological disorders, promoting activities as mental health tools, fundamental for the well-being of all.

Alguns dos elementos da equipa R3SET que têm a motivação de ver este projeto ganhar forma e consistência.

Budget and due dates

The project started in April 2022 and is divided into 2 phases:

1 – Preparing for the school year – April 2022 – October 2022

2 – The course of the school year – October 2022 – July 2023

The values of this crowdfunding refer to:

Trainings = 1538€

Curriculum Creation + Teacher Recruitment = 2000€

Consulting = €2690.4

Materials = 2060€

Accommodation and travel expenses = 1950€

Total = €10,238.4

Description of costs:

Training - Training of the 3 partner entities for teacher training. To be carried out in the 1st phase of the project.

Curriculum Creation + Teacher Recruitment – Agglomeration of the 3 pillars of the curriculum, construction of an academic year program and interview process + teacher selection. To be carried out in the 1st phase of the project.

Consultancy – Monitoring of the project by the 3 partner entities to ensure that the program is having the desired impact. To be carried out in the 2nd phase of the project.

Materials – Purchase of materials necessary to carry out the project. These are largely costs of sensory materials and the practical life of Montessori pedagogy. To be carried out in the 1st phase of the project

Subsistence and subsistence expenses - Expenses of travel and subsistence partners during the implementation of the project, training and consultancy throughout the school year. To be carried out in the 1st and 2nd phase of the project.

At the end of the year it will be possible to consult the annual report of accounts on the R3SET Association website ( www.r3set.pt ).

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