Promoting mental health
Deutsche Bahn Foundation is involved in working to destigmatize depression as a mental illness in society and enabling those affected to receive assistance. Together with the German Depression Aid and Suicide Prevention Foundation (Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe und Suizidprävention), it supports the German Federation against Depression (Deutsches Bündnis gegen Depression) in about 80 cities and regions. In 2023, the joint annual German depression barometer study examined the issue of “depression and isolation.”
In cooperation with Achtung!Kinderseele Foundation and the children and young people’s charity Die Arche in Hamburg, Arche staff learned to recognize mental stress and illnesses in children and to provide assistance. The aim is to carry out this training course at all Arche locations. Deutsche Bahn Foundation is funding this project to mitigate the continued negative consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of children and young people.
The prevention and early detection initiative “Masters of tomorrow – psychologically healthy through vocational training” of the Achtung!Kinderseele Foundation is supported by Deutsche Bahn Foundation in expanding its services nationwide. It aims to raise awareness of mental illness among vocational trainees. In addition, six out of nine e-learning modules have already been developed, which are aimed directly at vocational trainees.
