The Stay Tuned project aims to strengthen the work of youth workers in combating gender-based violence while promoting the psychological and physical well-being of young people. Gender-based violence is a complex problem that requires concrete, competent and targeted responses. Youth workers need to be properly trained, and provided with practical and functional tools to intervene in communities. These are not approximate or improvised solutions, but specific approaches that improve mental health education, promotion, and prevention among youth workers to address distress related to gender-based violence.

The project’s specific objectives include enhancing youth workers' skills through practical methodologies; establishing transnational cooperation to develop effective educational resources; and integrating these resources into daily youth work with young people while preventing marginalisation and distress linked to gender-based violence. The project seeks to involve 60 youth workers in training between Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Malta and Norway. Each country aims to share a practical methodology and train two trainers who will become trainees in the other modules. All partners recognise the importance of innovative methodologies to prevent, educate and support young people. 

The proposed methodologies focus on psycho-physical wellbeing to prevent violence, integrating practical approaches (podcast storytelling), critical thinking, art therapy and mindfulness. The training will be complemented by an online platform for cooperation, producing a Methodological Guide, a Toolkit, 100 educational resources and 20 ‘Learning Pills’. The acquired skills will be applied in 25 experiential workshops, involving 250 young people, 50 of them disadvantaged, to prevent gender-based violence and promote psychological and physical wellbeing. The educational resources developed are tested with 250 young people to ensure their effectiveness.