Healthy Respect strongly endorses a multi-faceted approach integrating information, education and services to improve the sexual health and wellbeing of young people. As part of this, Healthy Respect develops and supports professional networks to ensure professionals working with young people and parents have access to quality information, training and resources. Confidentiality and child protection can be sensitive areas of work for professionals. In all aspects of sexual health work with young people, Healthy Respect seeks to clarify policy and challenge media misconceptions, so that professionals can work with confidence.
Enhancing information
Healthy Respect recognises the value of quality, evidence-informed resources for professionals, parents and young people. In addition to maintaining an information website, Healthy Respect works with other agencies to develop print and training resources, and where possible, social marketing campaigns, to support sexual health and relationships work with young people.
Healthy Respect is committed to involving young people and using their feedback to ensure our activity is relevant to them
Click on these links for guidelines on Developing workshops and training, or Resources for young people. Examples of Healthy Respect’s work can be found in the Downloads and Campaigns section.
Facilitating service development
Healthy Respect is committed to the development of accessible services that are young people friendly and delivered by confident, appropriately trained staff. This includes the development and support of a network of young people’s drop-ins operating to consistent alI I want-LIVE Standards (2007).
For more information and activities around service development, including the drop-ins, see the Service Development page.
Supporting education and training
Working in partnership, Healthy Respect supports the delivery of multi-disciplinary training courses for professionals from a range of education settings and for those supporting young people who are not accessing mainstream school - and are often harder to reach. In this way, Healthy Respect encourages the delivery of educational interventions appropriate to the needs of young people, whether through school, community education, social work or voluntary organisations.
For more information and resources on education components, during and post- demonstration, see the full supporting education and training section.
Involving young people
Healthy Respect is committed to involving young people and using their feedback to ensure our activity is relevant to them.
See the Involving young people page for more details on our approach and examples of this work.
Young people, sex and the law
Healthy Respect works to make the law surrounding young people’s sexual health and relationships clear to both young people themselves and to the professionals working with them.
For more information, visit the Young people, sex and law (information for professionals) page.
Enhancing Information
Supporting Education and Training
Service Development
Involving Young People
Young People, Sex and the Law