Mental Health webinar for young people

Tune in LIVE for the #CopingWithCOVID webinar for young people: taking care of mental health while living in the new normal.

The event hosted by Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, is focused on young people’s mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Envoy will be joined by the United Nations’ Secretary-General Mr. António Guterres, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of the Belgians
and eight young people from around the world.


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