Yara Toenders

Yara is the Healthy Start Fellow for the ambition ‘Mental Wellbeing of Youth’. She researches different aspects of mental welIbeing – from the (neuro)biological level to subjective experience using co-creation techniques. In her research she focusses on positive factors that might empower young people and their surroundings, to improve youth’s mental wellbeing. For example, she studies the importance of role models, the effect of smartphone bans and the effect of music. She collaborates with partners such as MIND Us, Trimbos and NJi to include the societal perspective.