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Good practice
Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM)
Good practice
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
Good practice
Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Good practice
ProfScreen — Professional Screening of At-Risk Pupils
Good practice
Incredible Years (Teacher Programmes)
Innovative practice
Mental Health Clinical Liaison for Schools*
Innovative practice
PROTECT*
Innovative practice
My Time Without — The Challenge*
Good practice
PROMEHS
Good practice
Skills for Life — Zippy's Friends and Apple's Friends
Good practice
Lions Quest "Skills for Adolescence"
Good practice
Stop & Think – SEE+
Good practice
PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies)
Good practice
FRIENDS for Life
Good practice
IPSY — Information + Psychosocial Competence = Protection
Good practice
Life Skills Training Programme
Good practice
Unplugged
Good practice
Preventure
Good practice
KiVa
Good practice
Phare
Good practice
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP)
Good practice
@ease
Good practice
headspace (Denmark adaptation)
Good practice
Maisons des Adolescents
Good practice
Jigsaw
Good practice
Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (Youth F-ACT)
Good practice
Mindspace Mayo
Good practice
Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT)
Good practice
Prompt Mental Health Care (PMHC)
Innovative practice
SAMIFO — Health Centre for Asylum Seekers and Refugees*

Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM)

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  • Topic: Promising practice - youth participation by design, robust multi-country evaluation, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for youth-driven universal mental health promotion.

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Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
  • Topic: Promising practice - task-sharing/peer model, stigma reduction, empowers peers as supporters.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for community-based training that extends mental health support into everyday settings.

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Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS)
  • Topic: Promising practice - whole-school/systems approach, leadership and family engagement, sustained staff development.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for whole-school frameworks for supportive behavioural and emotional climates.

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ProfScreen — Professional Screening of At-Risk Pupils

ProfScreen – Professional Screening of at-risk pupils
  • Topic: Promising practice — early identification, targeted prevention, links schools to care.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

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Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for school-based screening of at-risk pupils.

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Incredible Years (Teacher Programmes)

Incredible Years – Teacher Programs
  • Topic: Promising practice - teacher workforce training, evidence-based, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for teacher training that strengthens safe, enabling school environments.

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Mental Health Clinical Liaison for Schools*

Mental Health Clinical Liaison Programme for Schools *
  • Topic: Innovative practice (*) - intersectoral education–health integration, early identification; evaluation/scale still developing.
  • Typology: Innovative practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for structural collaboration between education and mental health services.

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PROTECT*

PROTECT *
  • Topic: Innovative practice (*) — addresses emerging digital-use risk; targeted/indicated prevention; evaluation developing.
  • Typology: Innovative practice
  • Language: EN

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Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for indicated prevention for problematic media use among young people.

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My Time Without — The Challenge*

My Time Without - The Challenge *
  • Topic: Innovative practice (*) - digital/app-based, emerging-risk focus; formal evaluation developing.
  • Typology: Innovative practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for digital prevention of overlapping media, substance and gambling risk.

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PROMEHS

PROMEHS (Promoting Mental Health at Schools)
  • Topic: Promising practice - universal SEL, curriculum-integrated, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for curriculum-based, whole-population mental health promotion in schools.

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Skills for Life — Zippy's Friends and Apple's Friends

Skills for Life (Zippy's & Apple's Friends)
  • Topic: Promising practice - early-years SEL, SEN-adapted components, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for early emotional-regulation and coping-skills development.

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Lions Quest "Skills for Adolescence"

Lions Quest 'Skills for Adolescence' (LQSFA)
  • Topic: Promising practice - universal life-skills/SEL, teacher-delivered.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for life-skills and social-emotional learning for adolescents.

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Stop & Think – SEE+

Stop & Think - SEE+
  • Topic: Promising practice - universal SEL, research-evaluated.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for observation-based approaches to social-emotional learning.

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PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies)

PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies)
  • Topic: Promising practice - universal SEL, strong evidence base, gender-relevant effects.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

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Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for curricula building emotional knowledge and self-control.

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FRIENDS for Life

FRIENDS for Life
  • Topic: Promising practice - universal/targeted SEL, CBT-based, evidence-based.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

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Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for CBT-based anxiety prevention delivered through schools.

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IPSY — Information + Psychosocial Competence = Protection

IPSY (Information + Psychosocial Competence = Protection)
  • Topic: Promising practice - life-skills + substance-use prevention, EU best-practice listed.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for life-skills training combined with substance-use prevention.

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Life Skills Training Programme

Life Skills Training Programme
  • Topic: Promising practice - strong evidence base, universal life-skills, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

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Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for evidence-based life-skills curricula for substance-use prevention.

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Unplugged

Unplugged
  • Topic: Promising practice - robust multi-country evidence, structured adaptation protocol, youth-involved design.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for cross-national, youth-co-designed substance-use prevention.

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Preventure

Preventure
  • Topic: Promising practice - targeted/personality-based, evidence-based.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for personality-targeted prevention of substance use and risk behaviours.

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KiVa

KiVa
  • Topic: Promising practice - strong evidence base, legislative backing, youth feedback loops, structured rollout support.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

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Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for whole-school anti-bullying programmes backed by legislative mandate.

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Phare

Phare
  • Topic: Promising practice - national whole-school anti-bullying approach.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

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Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for national-scale bullying prevention.

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Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP)

Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP)
  • Topic: Promising practice - whole-school, established evidence base, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for long-standing, evidence-based bullying-prevention models.

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@ease

@ease
  • Topic: Promising practice — low-threshold access, peer/youth involvement, hybrid delivery, addresses stigma.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for low-threshold, peer-supported walk-in mental health services.

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headspace (Denmark adaptation)

headspace (Denmark)
  • Topic: Promising practice - transferable service model, policy-embedded, youth participation, low-threshold.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for cross-national transfer of low-threshold youth mental health centres.

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Maisons des Adolescents

Maisons des Adolescents
  • Topic: Promising practice - full-continuum integrated model, low-threshold, addresses fragmentation.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for integrated, one-stop adolescent health and support centres.

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Jigsaw

Jigsaw
  • Topic: Promising practice - policy-embedded, low-threshold, equity and LGBTQIA+ responsiveness.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for policy-embedded, equity-responsive national youth mental health services.

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Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (Youth F-ACT)

Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (Youth F-ACT)
  • Topic: Promising practice - integrated multidisciplinary model, addresses fragmentation, intersectoral.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for flexible, community-based treatment for young people with complex needs.

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Mindspace Mayo

Mindspace Mayo
  • Topic: Promising practice - community-based, low-threshold, subclinical support.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for community-rooted subclinical mental health support.

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Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT)

Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT)
  • Topic: Promising practice - migrant/refugee priority focus, trauma-focused, evidence in target group.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for trauma-recovery support for children with migration or refugee backgrounds.

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Prompt Mental Health Care (PMHC)

Prompt Mental Health Care (PMHC)
  • Topic: Promising practice - low-threshold, free, dedicated subclinical model, evidence-based.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for low-threshold subclinical care bridging prevention and specialist services.

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SAMIFO — Health Centre for Asylum Seekers and Refugees*

SAMIFO – Health Centre for Asylum Seekers and Refugees *
  • Topic: Innovative practice (*) - migrant/refugee priority, integrated and culturally sensitive care.
  • Typology: Innovative practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for integrated, culturally sensitive care for asylum-seeking and refugee children.

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