MindFit: Tackle Your Thoughts

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The project MindFit was envisioned as a continuation of a KA1 Mobility of Youth Workers project, Building Resilience: Using Sports to Improve Youth Mental Health. Trainers from both IDI and Neotalentway participated in this event enabling them to learn more about youth and mental health challenges they encounter. Besides knowledge and discussions, they learned how sport can be an important tool in dealing with mental health issues, reaching the decision of a need for another project. The project responds to the problems of the rise of mental health issues in sports, the lack of support athletes have from trainers and sport organizations and a lack of a structured program to support sport organizations. To address these problems, the project will achieve the following specific objectives: • To determine the existing obstacles to mental health support in sports organizations using a three-month-long Gap Analysis that includes five stakeholder consultations, 300 online surveys, and 10 interviews • To enhance the quality of work in sports clubs and NGOs for providing mental health support to athletes by developing tangible resources such as MindFit program and toolkit, and an online platform with instructive materials, tools for self-assessment, research data, and mental health-related information • To implement an innovative MindFit program with sixteen 30-minute modules to improve the mental health of 90 athletes aged 14-18 from 6 sports clubs and NGOs • To train 30 trainers from Croatia and Spain to provide mental health support to athletes in sports clubs and NGOs through a 3-day training course and MindFit program implementation • To promote awareness of mental health issues in sports, by creating an online campaign with 4 videos, 5 blogs, and 20 social media postings to reach 40,000 adolescents, athletes, trainers, and professionals