What does it consists of?
PERSONAL AND SOCIO-EMOTIONAL GROWTH WITH AWARENESS FROM EXPERIENCE
KOA is a programme of prevention and promotion of emotional well-being/mental health for teenagers at risk of emotional and/or psychological suffering.
KOA Experience offers experiential activities connected to the interests of teenagers (theatre, music, adventure, sports, new technologies) through which work is done to cultivate their emotional, personal and relational growth. The KOA process empowers adolescents to be more resilient to the adversities they face now and in their future.
KOA Learnings accompanies teams of KOA professionals in ongoing training, supervision, and teamwork.
As a differentiating feature, KOA offers social entities a model for the promotion of emotional well-being based on scientific evidence and following the recommendations of international reference organisations such as the World Health Organization -WHO-, American Psychologist Association -APA- and UNESCO among others.
KOAEXPERIENCES
KOATHEATRE
The experience of KOA Theatre allows teenagers from social organisations to understand themselves, to understand others and to manage their relationships in a healthy way.
KOAADVENTURE
The experiences and challenges of KOA Adventure stimulate adolescents to face different challenges and get out of their comfort zone, achieving outstanding learning in their emotional and relational areas.
KOAMUSIC
The musical experience proposes spaces of introspection to teenagers through the work of harmony, rhythm and melody, connecting it with their personal, social and emotional development.
KOASPORT
The experience of traditional and urban sports brings teenagers closer to a healthy habit from safe spaces where confidence, self-esteem and self-knowledge can grow.
The processKOA
KOALEARNINGS
The KOA Programme includes the supervision, accompaniment and continuous training of professionals through the SENTIR project, co-created with the SEER organisation in collaboration with Barcelona City Council. The aim of this project is to respond to the challenges in emotional management faced by the teams of the open centres with the children and adolescents they care for.
Key success indicators
86%
of adolescents say that KOA has helped them in their emotional regulation
96%
of adolescents have improved their perception of their future
79%
of adolescents have improved their social relationship competences.
+1122
adolescents have participated in the KOA programme since 2019.
With the support of
WE ALSO COLLABORATE WITH WEKO
Biannual programme of promotion and prevention for the good use of technologies in 5 educational communities in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. It is carried out with pupils in the upper primary school cycle -pre-teens aged 10 to 12-, their teachers and families, which we develop together with the Aprender a Mirar Foundation.
It is a challenge for our society to promote a safe use of Internet, mobile phones and video games and specifically to protect our teenagers. Weko involves them in this mission, makes them protagonists of their own learning and places them as agents of awareness.
The technological phenomenon involves many agents (teenagers, family, educational and health centres, public administration, technological companies, etc.) and, therefore, Weko accompanies the adults who are part of the educational community, such as their teachers and families, so that they have strategies and resources to deal with the use of technologies from the opportunity.