The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) has thousands of vacancies in its newest free online course with a certificate focusing on the Mental Health of Young People and Adolescents.

The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), an institution founded over a century ago, announced the opening of a new free online course. The free course with certificate is aimed at Mental Health and Psychosocial Care of Adolescents and Young People and the initiative appears as an opportunity for learning and specialization.

Check out the details about the free online course at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

O free course with certificate is made available by the Fiocruz unit in Mato Grosso do Sul. Although offered on a regional basis, the opportunity is extended to the entire country, with a total of 50 vacancies available.

The course load totals 180 hours and the online format provides greater flexibility, making it possible to complete it by December 30 of this year. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a partner in carrying out the free course. This cooperation reinforces the importance and potential impact of the initiative.

The target audience for training at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation are professionals who work with adolescents and young people in various sectors, including education, social assistance, health and public safety. However, anyone interested in the topic can participate.

Fiocruz confirms certificate at the end of the course

The free online course will provide an opportunity to update and improve knowledge inherent to the mental health and psychosocial care of adolescents and young people, which will contribute to the development and consolidation of Care Spaces focused on welcoming this public, meeting their psychosocial demands, especially in crisis situations.

The free course with certificate is based on three essential pillars, namely transdisciplinarity, with a pluralistic approach and knowledge intercommunication, strengthening of the rights guarantee system and intersectoriality, as an important instrument of articulation between subjects and varied sectors, knowledge and experiences, to enable participants to effectively act as agents of transformation in the most varied services and, in particular, with multidisciplinary teams.

Enrollment in Fiocruz's free online course takes place over the internet

The application process is completely online, with vacancies filled in order of application. All necessary data are available on the official website of the free course on Mental Health and Psychosocial Care for Adolescents and Young People.

To register, you will need to register on the platform using CPF, full name, date of birth, among other essential information. Deadline for registration and completion of the Free course with certificate is until December 30 of this year. The number of places is 50, reflecting Fiocruz's commitment to education and health.

The formation of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation represents a unique opportunity to improve mental health and psychosocial care for adolescents and young people. The availability of 50 places and the flexibility of the online format make this initiative a milestone in the provision of health education and training. Fiocruz, in partnership with UNICEF, reaffirms its role as a leading institution in education and health.

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Get to know the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation began its history on May 25, 1900, with the generation of the Instituto Soroterápico Federal, in the bucolic Fazenda de Manguinhos, in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro.

Originally inaugurated to produce serums and vaccines against the bubonic plague, the institution has experienced, since then, an intense trajectory, which is intertwined with the development of public health in Brazil. Throughout the 20th century, the institution experienced many political transformations in the country.