New publication: Health-related quality of life and cost-of-illness in young people seeking peer support at @ease
Youth mental health problems are widespread and often go unaddressed, particularly because many barriers such as long waitlists hinder access to support. Burden of disease studies, which quantify health problems in terms of years lived with reduced quality of life, and years of life lost, have shown that youth mental health problems are a major contributor to the worldwide burden of disease.
Bringing youth mental health research to the PAS Festiva
YOUTHreach researchers joined the PAS Festival in Maastricht to talk about youth mental health research and share what happens behind the scenes of the study!
headspace Denmark is officially an associated partner of YOUTHreach!
headspace Denmark just joined YOUTHreach! Read more about their work and how they’ll contribute to the project.
“Are we changing the world, or is volunteering changing us?”
What if volunteering changes us more than we expect? Monica Romao from AEGEE-Europe shares her perspective and journey.
YOUTHreach at the EU HEA Conference
Earlier this summer, Dr. Ayshe Yaylali, postdoctoral researcher at the CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute at Maastricht University, represented YOUTHreach at the EU Health Economics Association (EU HEA) Conference, held from 14–17 July in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
YAG Update #8
Learn more about the work of the YAG in the last few months.
YAG Update #7
Learn more about the work of the YAG in the last few months.
Invitation to participate in the DELPHI-YEAH study
What makes a youth mental health service truly accessible, welcoming and youth-friendly? And how can we make sure these principles are consistently put into practice? These are the questions of the DELPHI-YEAH study, a study within the YOUTHreach project, led by our researchers at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
YOUTHreach approach to youth engagement presented at international conference in Bern
How can young people become true partners in mental health research? This question was the focus of a presentation by Dr. Dorothee Horstkötter (Maastricht University) at an international meeting on transdiagnostic youth psychiatric research, held in Bern, Switzerland, on 19 June 2026.
Making mental health research matter
Hello! I’m Flore Joskin, and I work as the Communications Manager for YOUTHreach. Alongside that, I’m also involved in communications for a research project called Youth-GEMs (www.youth-gems.eu) and several other research projects within the Mental Health and Neuroscience Research Institute (MHENs) at Maastricht University. At the heart of everything I do is one simple question: how can we make sure that scientific research reaches the people it’s meant to benefit?