Social Workers are a part of the festival’s Emergency Services Office. During the festival, several volunteers walk around the Camping area and Inner Festival Area to talk to festivalgoers.
You can recognise them by their white vests with the text SOCIAL WORKER.
Social Workers have two primary tasks:
1. Outreach work
We walk around the festival doing outreach and preventative work, by being available for participants at the festival; this applies to paying festivalgoers as well as volunteers. Here, we have an open and inquisitive conversation with you about your well-being, your experiences at the festival, what good festival and party culture is, and explain how to get in touch with us, if necessary.
2. Mental Health First Aid
We provide Mental Health First Aid/Crisis Aid when speaking to one or more people, who have had an intense experience or are in crisis. We offer conversation, debriefing and most of all emotional support and care in the form of mental health first aid.
All Social Workers are trained in helping people, who are experiencing crisis, and their next of kin as it is an interdisciplinary team consisting of pedagogues, doctors, and medical students, street-based social workers, substance abuse counsellors, psychologists, social workers, and nurses.
Contact
Social Workers can be contacted in the towers on the Camping Area, through your leader (as a volunteer) or by calling Roskilde Festival’s Emergency Services Office on +45 70 120 112.