How to promote and protect social support among the youth
About the playbook
This Health Promotion Playbook for Mental Health provides local government units with ready-to-use tools to help promote and protect a critical determinant of health and well-being: social support among the youth. This present module of the Health Promotion Playbook provides an evidence-based intervention that local decision-makers may find useful for implementation at the level of the community; this intervention may be modified by local governments to more appropriately address the specific issues in the community. Likewise, the components included herein may be modified to local contexts, subject to a needs assessment of LGUs or authorized sub-units.
If you work for an LGU, this playbook can help you:
Establish peer support groups managed by a trained peer facilitator from the community as an early intervention for mental health promotion among the youth
Actively promote and encourage the youth to engage and be part of youth-led peer
support groups
Institutionalize and provide continuous support mechanisms for youth-led peer support groups by professionalizing peer facilitators in the LGU
What’s inside
Template Policies
Ordinances relating to the creation of Peer Support Group Oversight Committee
Basic Resource Requirements
List of projected basic items that may be utilized to implement various activities such as the production of communication materials, logistics and compensation for Peer Facilitators, online conferencing subscription, etc.
Implementation Checklist
This checklist provides guidance on the specific activities and delineated roles and
responsibilities of offices and individuals in the implementation of a behavioral nudge
intervention and related activities.
Capacity-Building Outline
These are proposed topics for workshops designed to equip implementers and stakeholders with basic knowledge and specific technical skills required for the intervention.
Adapt PH is a nationwide campaign that aims to utilize the power of design and the nudge theory to help change behaviors of Filipinos with regard to COVID-19 minimum safety guidelines.