Dance for health
Dance for Health is a method with a documented positive effect on young people's mental health that has been established in Norrbotten for a few years and is now being developed further in collaboration with the municipalities.
In Norrbotten there are 18 trained Dance for Health instructors distributed within different municipalities. Several of these offer dance groups throughout the year or part of the year. Those who lead a Dance for Health group have training in pedagogy and/or in care/medicine/psychology/behavior.
Within Dance for Health, Region Norrbotten collaborates with cultural schools, schools and student health teams and is also in the process of opening up collaboration with primary care.
The Dance for Health initiative has existed in Norrbotten since 2018 and then under the name "Dance Method".