InvolveMENT - Improving mental health services with and for indigenous and ethnic minority youth

The InvolveMENT project seeks to enhance mental health support for youth with national minority, indigenous and refugee backgrounds, by tailoring public eHealth services to their specific needs.

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Facts
Project manager

Petter Viksveen

Funding

The Research Council of Norway 

Project period

01.07.2023 – 30.06.2027 

Partners

The project is a collaboration between the University of Stavanger and 10 partners

In 2023, The InvolveMENT-team began their 4-year collaborative research project to improve the mental health of youth from minority backgrounds.

Deltakere i forskningsprosjektet InvolveMENT som smiler til kameraet
Youth representatives, co-researchers, researchers and partner organisation representatives, September 2023. Photo: Cathrine Sneberg/UiS

The InvolveMENT collaborative research project aims to improve the mental health of youth with national minority, indigenous and refugee backgrounds by meeting their information and personalised mental health needs, using public eHealth services. Existing services have not been adapted to meet the needs of minority youth and no research evidence exists to determine service acceptability, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness or safety of such services in Norway. The InvolveMENT research project will apply a co-design process involving youth with national minority, indigenous and refugee backgrounds and multiple stakeholder organisations to develop proposals for adapted, culturally sensitive, equitable and sustainable healthcare services. 

The InvolveMENT project involves youth representatives from national minorities, indigenous backgrounds, and refugees throughout all stages of the research. These of youth, as well as co-researchers and partner organisation representatives have contributed to developing the project and preparing data collection which starts in 2024. The findings will contribute to develop proposals to better meet the mental health needs of minority youth, and eventually to test the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and safety of the adapted services.

Collaborating partners