Mental Health
Good and innovative practices
A strong, evidence-based mental health response requires a layered set of interventions — from system-wide structural conditions to targeted support for those at highest risk.
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Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
Community-based hubs integrating health, social care and education for parents and young children.
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Austria, Italy, Liechtenstein
Austria's national early-childhood family support service, focused on vulnerable families.
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Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK
Group-based parenting programme building positive parenting skills.
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France, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Slovenia
Group-based parenting/family-skills programme that strengthens parenting competencies.
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Netherlands, Norway
Whole-school framework for supportive behavioural and emotional climates.
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Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Lithuania, Slovenia
Mental health literacy programme for primary school professionals.
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Croatia
Croatia's national mental health literacy programme for school teachers.
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Ireland, Portugal, Slovenia, UK
Group-based training for teachers in classroom and relationship skills.
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Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden, UK
Training that equips people to recognise and respond to mental health difficulties.
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Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK
School initiative for daily physical activity supporting wellbeing.
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Spain
Pilot bringing multidisciplinary mental health teams into schools (Madrid, Spain).
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Classroom mental health literacy curriculum for secondary schools.
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Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK
Youth-driven universal mental health promotion programme.
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Italy
Digital peer-learning platform for mental health (Italy).
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Sweden, UK
Curriculum building emotional knowledge and self-control.
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Netherlands, UK
CBT-based anxiety-prevention SEL programme.
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Croatia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Portugal, Romania
Curriculum-based programme promoting mental health at school.
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Croatia, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK
Evidence-based life-skills curriculum preventing substance use.
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Czechia, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, UK
Emotional coping-skills programmes for young children.
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Life-skills programme combining information and psychosocial competence.
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Slovenia, Croatia
Life-skills and SEL programme for adolescents.
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UK
Socio-emotional programme using observation-based engagement (UK).
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Ireland
School programme promoting positive body image (Ireland).
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Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden.
Life-skills and social-influence substance-use prevention (developed in Italy).
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Czech Republic, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania, UK
Personality-targeted prevention for substance use and risk.
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Classroom mental health literacy curriculum for secondary schools.
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Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK
Youth-driven universal mental health promotion programme.
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Italy
Digital peer-learning platform for mental health (Italy).
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UK
Digital mental health intervention (UK).
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Ireland
National youth mental health service (Ireland).
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Denmark
Low-threshold youth mental health centres (adapted from Australia).
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France
Multidisciplinary one-stop adolescent health/support centres (France).
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Netherlands
Low-threshold youth walk-in/online support (Netherlands).
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Germany
Indicated prevention for students showing problematic media use (Germany).
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Spain
Pilot bringing multidisciplinary mental health teams into schools (Madrid, Spain).
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Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
Professional screening of at-risk pupils in schools.
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Austria, Italy, Liechtenstein
Austria's national early-childhood family support service, focused on vulnerable families.
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Poland
Postpartum depression screening programme in Poland.
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Scotland (UK)
Scotland's project expanding access to evidence-based parenting programmes for families in need.
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Ireland
Intensive, strengths-based advocacy support for at-risk young people and families.
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Sweden
Skills-based trauma-recovery intervention for humanitarian settings.
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Germany
Indicated prevention for students showing problematic media use (Germany).
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Czechia, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, UK
Emotional coping-skills programmes for young children.
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Germany
App-based abstinence challenge addressing risky media/substance/gambling habits (Germany).
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Czech Republic, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania, UK
Personality-targeted prevention for substance use and risk.
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Italy
Integrated health service for asylum seekers and refugees (Rome, Italy).
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Italy
Digital MHPSS service for migrant and refugee children (Italy).
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Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain
Web-based CBT self-help tool for mild-to-moderate depression.
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Czechia, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Italia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia
Mental health self-help app for young people (Czechia).
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Italy
Peer-based online listening and counselling network (Italy).
As this toolkit centers on promotion and prevention, the practices outlined in Layers 4 and 5 serve as illustrative examples rather than a comprehensive list