Mental Health Rights Defender

This badge is awarded for completing the Know Your Rights and Advocate for Yourself activity. By learning about your mental health rights and practising advocacy skills, you have demonstrated your ability to assert your mental health needs and support others in doing the same. This badge recognises your growth in advocacy, self-advocacy, and communication skills, enabling you to navigate mental health rights with confidence.
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Skills and experiences gained (aligned with the European LifeComp competence framework):
Advocacy (connected to LifeComp S1 Empathy): You’ve developed the skills to advocate for yourself and others, ensuring fair treatment in school, work, and healthcare settings by understanding and asserting mental health rights.
Self-advocacy (connected to LifeComp L2 Critical Thinking): You’ve taken responsibility for learning about your rights and are now equipped to speak up for yourself or others when needed.
Communication (LifeComp S2 Communication): You’ve learned to effectively communicate your mental health needs, ensuring your voice is heard.
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By completing badge tasks, you showed your readiness to advocate for your mental health rights and those of others. This badge acknowledges your growth in advocacy, communication, and knowledge of mental health protections, preparing you to contribute to the European Youth Goal #5 Mental Health and Wellbeing. Cities of Learning Network partners value badge earner's efforts and contributions and issue this badge after reviewing the provided evidence.

Você precisa concluir 2 tarefas para receber a badge

Tarefas

Tarefa n.º 1

Evidência verificada por: um organizador de atividades

Understand your rights:
Task: Participate in the rights awareness activities to learn about your mental health rights in school, work, and healthcare.
Evidence: Explain what you learned about your rights and how this knowledge can help you to advocate for yourself or others.

Iniciar sessão e começar a missão

Tarefa n.º 2

Evidência verificada por: um organizador de atividades

Practice advocacy skills:
Task: Take part in a role-playing advocacy session where you practice advocating for yourself or others in a mental health-related situation.
Evidence: Share your experience with role-playing, describing what you learned and how it has improved your ability to advocate for your needs or the needs of others.

Iniciar sessão e começar a missão

Tarefa n.º 3

Evidência verificada por: um organizador de atividades

Receive mentorship support:
Task: Engage in a one-on-one advocacy mentorship session where you receive personalised guidance on advocating for your mental health rights.
Evidence: Submit a summary of your mentorship session, including key insights you gained and how you plan to apply them in your daily life or future advocacy efforts.

Iniciar sessão e começar a missão

Atividades

Stand for Yourself and Your Mental Health Rights

Boost Your Well-being: Take Action for Mental Health

Organização

Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

A Badgecraft é a anfitriã desta plataforma e desenvolve-a em conjunto com as principais organizações educativas. O programa Erasmus+ da União Europeia concedeu um cofinanciamento para a construção da primeira versão desta plataforma. Contacto: support@badgecraft.eu.