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Gain a research-informed understanding of the factors that influence young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Drawing on insights from multiple disciplines, this course explores how biological, psychological and social influences interact across development. You will critically evaluate current evidence, emerging trends and future directions in the field, helping you apply contemporary thinking to professional practice, policy or further study.

Dates: 26 October 2026 - 18 December 2026

Delivery mode: Online

Application deadline: 22 October 2026

What: This interactive, two-day online training is designed to empower young changemakers with the knowledge, skills, and tools to protect and promote their mental health and psychosocial well-being. Through a series of engaging activities, this training covers key topics such as emotional awareness, stress management, healthy habit formation, boundary setting, problem-solving, and effective communication. Participants will learn how to create their own tailored resource list to support their well-being and leave with a resilience building toolkit as they continue their impactful work.

This training is only open to young changemakers between 15-25 years old.

When: Check back in for more dates!

Learn key facilitation skills and activities to promote resilience and wellbeing of distressed children, families, and caregivers.

This special 6-hour online training  was developed by Save the Children and sector experts in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS).

This course is for practitioners working on programmes for and with adolescents and their caregivers affected by the war in Ukraine. It may also be useful programme managers to develop and deliver programmes of high quality. By the end of this course, you will be able to:
1. Describe some challenges and risks adolescents and caregivers face in conflict settings. 
2. Identify appropriate methods of supporting adolescents and caregivers.
3. Recognise practical tools on how to support adolescents and caregivers in conflict settings. 

This online course, hosted by the MHPSS Collaborative, is designed to equip participants with a comprehensive understanding of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) and its critical role in humanitarian and development contexts.

The Outcomes Accelerator invites proposals for outcomes-based financing projects that incentivize investments to improve mental health outcomes. 

The Outcomes Accelerator offers flexible funding, targeted expertise, and networking to support OBF initiatives with testing, launching, and scaling.  To facilitate this, we periodically issue open calls for proposals to identify and support high-potential initiatives that are designing or preparing to launch outcomes-based financing (OBF) mechanisms. Through these calls, the Accelerator offers pipeline acceleration support—including funding, technical assistance, and access to a global network of experts—to help promising projects move toward implementation.

This cohort, we are focused on funding proposals aimed at making mental health outcomes contractible and verifiable, sharpening accountability for results, and giving domestic governments and funders a concrete reason to commit to mental health and sustain that commitment over time. This cohort is an opportunity to further test and strengthen OBF approaches that intentionally integrate mental health into broader service delivery systems, with a particular focus on youth as a target population, due to the importance of early intervention in a person’s life.

• EOI Submission Window: August 20 – October 2, 2026
• Full Proposal Submission Window: November – December 2026
• Due Diligence & Contracting:  February - April 2027

The burden of mental health disorders is rising fast across Africa, while specialist services remain scarce and concentrated in capital cities. Integrating mental health into Primary Health Care is the realistic path to universal access.

Global Health Africa Young Innovator Boost 2026 identifies, funds and supports the young people building that integration: technological innovators on one side, researchers producing evidence on the other.

Two tracks exist:

• Technological Innovations track: Startups, AI platforms, tele-counselling and connected medical devices serving Primary Health Care.
• Scientific Research track: Young researchers producing evidence — epidemiological, clinical, operational — to guide mental health policy.

Applications close by October 7th. 

The Nivishe Mental Health Fellowship is a prestigious 12-week virtual fellowship for emerging and established changemakers who want to move beyond awareness and gain a deeper understanding of mental health from both African and global perspectives. Through sessions led by mental health experts, practitioners, researchers, and leaders, fellows explore topics ranging from community mental health and lived experience to neuropsychology, helping them understand how the brain, mind, environment, and society influence wellbeing. 

This is not a fellowship where you simply learn about mental health, it is a space where you learn how to act on it. Grounded in African realities, the fellowship creates opportunities to engage with diverse perspectives, strengthen leadership skills, build meaningful networks, and develop practical approaches to addressing mental health challenges within your own community. 

The fellowship concludes with a Community Impact Capstone Project, where fellows turn learning into action by designing and implementing an initiative that reaches community members directly. Previous fellows have led community dialogues, radio programs, awareness campaigns, school interventions, and outreach activities. We believe knowledge should create a ripple effect, empowering one fellow to influence hundreds of others and contribute to lasting change.

Application Timeline

• September 9th, 2026 – Applications open

• September 18th, 2026– Applications close

• Fellowship runs every Saturday 10.00AM - 12.30PM EAT

As part of a global effort to elevate youth voices and action in the field of mental health and well-being, the UN Youth Office is mapping youth-led initiatives from around the world. Whether you're leading a local project, running a national campaign, or sparking global change — your work matters.

This form is a space to share your story, highlight your impact, and become part of a global community of young changemakers working to transform mental health systems from the ground up.

If your initiative is youth-led and focuses on mental health and well-being — in any form, anywhere in the world — we invite you to fill out this form and help us build this collective movement!

The Being Initiative, in partnership with Grand Challenges Canada, has launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) to fund innovative, youth-led projects that promote and prevent mental health challenges among underserved young people aged 10–24. Focusing on 12 priority countries—Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam—the initiative seeks culturally sensitive, community-driven solutions that address the social, environmental, and systemic factors affecting youth mental well-being, particularly in urban and peri-urban settings.​

Two funding streams are available:

• Proof-of-Concept (POC): Up to $250,000 CAD for early-stage projects aimed at testing and refining innovative approaches.
• Transition-to-Scale (TTS): Between $300,000 and $1.5 million CAD for scaling proven interventions with demonstrated impact.​

Preference is given to youth-led organizations based in the priority countries, and all proposals must involve meaningful participation from young people, including those with lived experience of mental health challenges. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through a two-stage process via the Grand Challenges Canada Fluxx Portal.