In the autumn of 2016 we organized our third and fourth Swedish YAM Instructor Course. The first course took place at Karolinska Institutet and we got the chance to spend the week with some enthusiastic participants from Japan, Norway, Austria, Sweden, and the US. In the second course, twelve participants from Stockholm, Gothenburg, Storuman and…Continue readingYAM courses in Sweden
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The last few weeks have been very busy with two consecutive YAM instructor courses. One in Stockholm, Sweden, and one in Bozeman, Mt, USA. The courses went really well and we are happy to have fifteen new instructors in the USA and twelve in Sweden! In both courses we had a participants with very…Continue readingComparing YAM courses cross-culturally
A YAM intervention is currently being planned and put into practice in Stockholm by NASP (the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health) in collaboration with the Stockholm County Council as funding partner. In the fall of 2016, the implementation of YAM will begin and will continue until the fall of 2018. Schools throughout the county will be selected…Continue readingYAM in Stockholm
We had a wonderful time in Bozeman, Montana and would like to welcome the first North American YAM instructors. All fifteen of them! YAM will be carried out around Montana and in Dallas, Texas in the fall.Continue readingOur first YAM course in the United States!
Last Friday we completed another YAM course, this time in Stockholm, Sweden, our first course in Swedish. The now newly certified YAM instructors came from different regions in Sweden and had very varied professional backgrounds, which allowed for stimulating discussions throughout. The new instructors will now practice with teenagers in schools in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Norrbotten and…Continue readingInstructor Course in Stockholm
Based on the many questions we have received about YAM implementation costs we created a short guide to the standard costs one can anticipate when implementing YAM. These include instructor training and labour costs, materials and possible translation and evaluation costs. If you are considering taking on the YAM programme in your country, city or…Continue readingYAM implementation costs
Our next instructor course will be held in Rome November 2nd–6th 2015. You are welcome to register for it now! Check out the courses page for more information.Continue readingRegister for our next course in Rome
We have received a lot of newsletter subscriptions and general queries about the YAM programme and upcoming courses in the past few weeks since the publication in Lancet mentioned in the post below. We are very happy to see that so many of you are interested in the programme and want to know more or…Continue readingThank you for contacting us!
Our first instructor course last month in Rome was a great success as far as the YAM faculty is concerned. The group of participants was diverse in every sense of the word, working in different parts of Europe in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, mental health and general medicine, with everything from adolescents, immigrant health,…Continue readingThe first YAM Instructor Course is finished!
Registration is still open for the soon approaching YAM instructor course in Rome October 6-9th. Find more information under the Courses or Be an instructor tabs. So far we have participants from all over Europe including Italy, Spain, Romania, France, Turkey, Sweden and Slovenia! We are knee high in preparation and believe the course will be a…Continue readingRegister for the Instructor Course in Rome