WE-STAY

WE-STAY
Titre :	Working in Europe to Stop Truancy Among Youth
Budget :	3 671 k€
Subventions :	FP7-HEALTH (2 996 k€)
Sous-programme :	HEALTH-2009-3.3-1
Type de contrat :	SMALL
Début :	1er mai 2010
Fin :	30 avril 2013
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WE-STAY est l'acronyme du projet européen Working in Europe to Stop Truancy Among Youth, qui a pour référence sur le service CORDIS 241542.

Il vise à trouver une alternative aux mesures étasuniennes de renforcement de la sécurité dans le but de parer la délinquance juvénile, en prenant en compte la détresse des jeunes concernés grâce à un suivi psychologique.

Note : les éléments ci-dessus ont été traduits de la description du projet sur CORDIS.

English description

Note : Les objectifs suivants sont repris de la fiche du projet sur Cordis

Objective

Truancy is a serious public health problem that affects adolescents from all countries around the world. In the United States, it has been reported that up to 35% of high school students skipped one or more days of school during a school year. However, little is known on the short- and long-term outcomes of underlying psychological and mental ill-health for those adolescents who truant. Research has indicated that truancy has severe and far reaching consequences, such as maladjustment, substance abuse, delinquency and crime.

Most studies, performed in the USA, proposed mechanistic and law-enforcement interventions to prevent truancy. However this approach does not take in consideration the psychological distress that is associated with this phenomenon and may even have negative consequences on adolescents well-being and mental health.

The main objectives of the WE-STAY (Working in Europe to Stop Truancy among Youth) project are to gather epidemiological information on truancy on European adolescents; to perform intervention school-based programmes for adolescents, aimed at reducing truancy rates and improve mental health of students; to evaluate outcomes of the interventions, in comparison with a control group, from a multidisciplinary perspective including social, psychological and economical aspects; to recommend effective, culturally adjusted models for preventing truancy and promoting mental health of adolescents in different European countries.

The WE-STAY project proposes to implement and evaluate outcomes of three different kinds of intervention against truancy: a) a universal intervention based on an awareness program for students, teachers and parents; b) a screening intervention aimed at identifying students at risk and refer them to mental health services; c) a combination of the above interventions. A mechanistic intervention to stop truancy will be used as control.

 

Les partenaires du projet

Coordinateur du projet

• Karolinska Institutet - Stockholm (Suède)

Partenaires

• Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nancy - Nancy (Lorraine, France) - Contact : Philippe Boulangè
• Vadaskert Alapitvany a Gyermekek Leiki Egeszegeert - Budapest (Hongrie)
• Universidad de Oviedo - Oviedo (Espagne)
• Univerity of Medicine and Pharmacy - Cluj (Roumanie)
• Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg - Heidelberg (Bade-Wurtemberg - Allemagne)
• Eesti-Rootsi Vaimse Tervise ja Suitsidoloogia Instituut - Tallinn (Estonie)
• Universita degli Studi del Molise - Campobasso (Italie)
• Clalit Health Services - Tel Aviv (Israël)

Financement

• Coût total du projet : 3 670 569 €
• Subvention de la Commission européenne (programme FP7-HEALTH) : 2 995 947 €

Dates importantes

• Date de début : 1^er mai 2010
• Date de fin : 30 avril 2013

Voir aussi

Liens

• La fiche du projet sur BioInfoBank Library
• Le site officiel du Karolinska Instituet