Creating a Healthy Respect for sexual health and relationships

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Creating a Healthy Respect for sexual health and
relationships
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Strategic Aims

• 1. To create an environment that will lead to
  long term improvements in the sexual health and
  well being of young people in two communities in
  a local authority area of Scotland through a
  multi-faceted approach which links education,
  information and services for young people aged
  10-18.
• 2. To communicate the lessons from Healthy
  Respect in order to transfer learning and skills
  throughout Scotland.

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Approach

• Making the links between education and health

target group
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Values

• As a network, Healthy Respect has thefollowing
  core values
• respect
• responsibility
• partnership
• inclusiveness
• And advocates that the values of respect and
  responsibility shape and inform the behaviours,
  attitudes, aspirations and relationships of young
  people in Lothian.

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Partnership Network

• Healthy Respect as a partnership network

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Key Findings on Partnership Working from Phase One

• Positives
• Strong champion clear branding
• Ability to tackle high profile issues
• Impact on inclusion and diversity
• Multi professional working on education
  clinical issues
• Could do better
• Limited capacity of voluntary sector
• Low involvement of middle managment and parents

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Impact on Young People

• Positive
• Received a noticeably different style and level
  of service.
• Localised drop in services linked to schools
  low threshold service
• Mix of formal and informal services.
• Same staff providing school based education and
  clinical services
• Could Do Better
• Variability in services offered those with
  direct access to contraception more heavily used
  than those offered advice and counselling
• Locality not always seen as anonymous or
  confidential
• Low uptake by young people from ethnic
  minorities.

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Phase 2 Approach

• Continuing to link education and health

target group
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Target Groups

• Young people (aged 10-18)
• Parents and significant adults
• Professionals

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Phase 2 Impact Outcomes
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Creating a Healthy Respect

• visit us at
• www.healthyrespect.co.uk
• healthy.respect_at_lhb.scot.nhs.uk