Health, Wellbeing & Mental Resilience
Supporting the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young Moroccans through peer support, creative expression, and community-based care. Because you cannot build a future if you are struggling to get through the day.
Wellbeing is not a luxury. It is a foundation.
Across Morocco, young people face mounting pressure from unemployment, family expectations, social media, and a lack of prospects. Anxiety, burnout, and isolation are widespread, but most have nowhere to turn. Mental health services are concentrated in major cities, and even there, the stigma of seeking help keeps many silent.
Medforumm does not provide clinical therapy. What we do is fill the gap between silence and professional care. We create structured, safe spaces where young people can learn about their own emotional health, develop coping strategies, and support each other. We train peer facilitators who continue this work in their communities long after our programmes end.
Our approach is rooted in non-formal education and community care. We work with health professionals to ensure our content is accurate, but we deliver it through youth workers who speak the same language, live in the same neighbourhoods, and understand the daily reality of being young in Morocco today.
What We Cover
Young people with no access to mental health services
Peer facilitators and community health ambassadors
Youth workers and educators
Free for all participants
Certificate upon completion
Rabat · Sale · Temara
Our Approach to Wellbeing
Non-Formal Education
All sessions use experiential methods: guided reflection, role-play, group exercises, and creative activities. Participants learn through doing, not listening to lectures.
Safe Spaces
Every session operates under a group agreement of confidentiality, respect, and non-judgement. Participants decide what they share. No one is pressured to disclose personal experiences.
Health Professionals
All programme content is reviewed by licensed psychologists or mental health practitioners. Facilitators are trained to recognise when a participant needs professional referral and know how to make it.
Peer Referral Network
We maintain a list of affordable and accessible mental health services in each city we operate in. When a participant needs more than peer support, we connect them to professional care.
Safeguarding
We maintain a safeguarding policy for all programmes. Facilitators undergo background verification. A designated safeguarding officer is available throughout each cycle. Incident reporting procedures are in place.
Peer-to-Peer Model
The strongest support often comes from someone who has been through the same thing. We train programme graduates to become peer facilitators, creating a sustainable community-driven care model.
Under Health, Wellbeing & Mental Resilience
Four targeted programmes addressing the mental health gap for young Moroccans. All delivered in Arabic (MSA and Darija). All free. All designed with input from health professionals.
Our flagship mental health awareness programme delivered in partnership with local health professionals. Participants attend bi-weekly workshops on stress management, emotional regulation, and healthy communication in community spaces across Rabat, Sale, and Temara. The programme trains a cohort of peer facilitators who then deliver sessions in their own neighbourhoods, creating a peer-to-peer mental health support network that continues beyond the programme itself.
A programme for young Moroccans dealing with anxiety, isolation, or burnout who have no access to mental health services. This programme does not replace clinical care but fills the gap with structured group support, practical coping skills, and referral pathways to professional services when needed. Sessions are kept small (16 participants maximum) to build trust and allow genuine sharing. Outreach targets youth who would never walk into a therapist’s office but might attend a community workshop.
Art therapy and creative expression as tools for emotional processing. Participants use painting, writing, photography, and music to explore emotions they cannot verbalise. No artistic skill is required. The programme is facilitated by trained youth workers with support from art therapists. Each cycle ends with a public exhibition where participants choose to share their work, making invisible struggles visible and reducing stigma through creative storytelling.
A peer-led wellbeing programme that trains young Moroccans to become mental health ambassadors in their communities. Ambassadors learn mental health first aid, active listening, crisis recognition, and referral pathways. After the intensive training, each ambassador commits to delivering at least 3 awareness sessions in their neighbourhood, school, or workplace over the following 3 months. This creates a multiplier effect: each cohort of 15 ambassadors reaches hundreds of young people across multiple communities.
Selection Process
Online Application
Complete a short form describing your interest and what you hope to gain. No CV required. No medical history required. We are looking for willingness to participate, not qualifications.
Brief Conversation
A 15-minute informal call with a programme coordinator. We want to understand your expectations and ensure the programme is a good fit for what you need. This is not an assessment.
Selection Criteria
Priority is given to youth with limited access to mental health services, those in peri-urban or underserved areas, and applicants who express a desire to support others in their community after completing the programme.
Onboarding
Selected participants receive a welcome pack with the full programme schedule, group agreement (confidentiality, respect, boundaries), and an orientation session before the first workshop.
Alumni Pathway
Certificate and Recommendation
Every graduate receives a Medforumm Certificate of Completion and a personalised recommendation letter for job applications, university admissions, or further programmes.
Become a Peer Facilitator
Top graduates are invited to join an advanced facilitator training and return as peer support leaders in the next cycle. This builds leadership experience while strengthening community mental health capacity.
Erasmus+ Priority Access
Programme alumni receive priority consideration for Medforumm’s Erasmus+ opportunities, including youth exchanges, training courses, and European Solidarity Corps placements focused on health and wellbeing.
Ongoing Peer Network
All graduates join a peer support network where they can continue to share, learn, and access resources. The network meets monthly and is facilitated by trained alumni.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality
Pre and Post Assessment
Every participant completes a wellbeing self-assessment at the start and end measuring stress levels, coping confidence, social connectedness, and help-seeking behaviour.
Session Feedback
After each workshop, participants rate emotional safety, content relevance, and facilitator quality. Facilitators adjust upcoming sessions based on this data in real time.
3-Month Follow-Up
Three months after completion, our team contacts every graduate to assess sustained wellbeing improvements, use of coping strategies, and any engagement in peer support or community health activities.
Annual Impact Report
All data is compiled into an annual report shared publicly. We report honestly, including what did not work and what we plan to improve in the next cycle.
Moments That Matter
Your wellbeing matters. Start here.
No experience needed. No fees. No medical referral required. All programmes are delivered in Arabic and Darija in safe, confidential group settings. Take the first step.
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