- “A-Gente de Cambio: Promotion of mental health in adolescents” runs from September 13 to October 2.
September 17, 2024.- The National Secretariat of Youth (Senaju) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru, warmly welcomed the 20 young volunteers from the four member countries of the Pacific Alliance: Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, who will participate in the project “A-Gente de Cambio: Promotion of mental health in adolescents”.
The ceremony was led by the Director of International Cooperation of the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, César Jordán; the National Secretary of Youth, Carlos Vilela Del Carpio; and the Executive Director of the National Integral Program for Family Welfare, Jessica Ruiz.
“From Senaju we are very happy to be able to carry out a new edition of the Peruvian project A-Gente de Cambio: Promotion of mental health in adolescents. In Peru, 33% of young people between 15 and 29 years old had some mental or emotional health problem, although it is alarming, but it is also a reality that today we are already talking about it,” said the National Secretary of Youth, at the welcoming ceremony.
The 20 young people were selected from more than 1,050 applicants from Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru for the Peruvian project, entitled “A-Gente de Cambio: Promotion of mental health in adolescents”, which seeks to promote the mental health of adolescents in vulnerable situations from a community approach.
The project will be developed in the Integral Family Development Centers (Cedif), belonging to the National Integral Program for Family Welfare (Inabif), of Las Dalias, in Chaclacayo; Turquesas, in Ancon; Año Nuevo; in Comas, Tahuantisuyo, in Independencia and Rosa de Lima in Villa Maria de Triunfo.
It is important to mention that the on-site stage of the project runs from September 13 to October 2 and the execution of the mental health promotion programs for adolescents in the Cedifs will be from September 17 to 27.