Creating a Healthy Respect for Sexual Health June 2008 Moray Paterson Programme Leader.

Creating a Healthy Respect for Sexual Health

June 2008

Moray PatersonProgramme Leader

• What does it mean to you?

• Can you remember your SRE?

Sexual Health and Relationships

HR Strategic Aims

1. Deliver 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

HR ApproachMaking the links between education and health

information

accessible serviceseducationtarget group

• Young people (aged 10-18)

• Professionals

• Parents and significant adults

Phase Two Target Groups

• Schools

• Alternative Educational Settings

• Relationships / Gender Based Violence

• Multi-agency Training & Delivery

Educational Work: Supporting Professionals

Education Programmes

• Awaiting final data from YP questionnaires

Learning:

• Releasing professionals for training can be challenging

• Multi-agency training is highly valued, and builds professional relationships

• Senior-level sign up is essential

Education Programmes

“Although more young people report using contraception at first intercourse, 16% of young men and 11% of young women still do not”

• Network of 22 local drop-ins providing a range of low threshold services

• Generic Health & Sexual Health

• Partnership approach

• Different models of drop-ins: schools, health or community settings

• All services meet all I want-LIVE standards

Increasing access to services for young people

Healthy Respect drop-insAge and gender statistics

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April 2005 to March 2007

Females

Males

• 47% of young people used sexual health services in intervention area (22% in comparison area)

• In particular boys in the intervention area used services much more than boys in comparison area

Evaluation of Services

• Boys predominantly used services to obtain condoms

• 93% of boys were accessing condoms compared with 61% of girls

Evaluation of Services

Communication tools to influence culture

• Website

• PR and media relations

• Events and network activities

• Print resources and distribution

• Media campaigns

What we did: high profile

What we did: online

What we found out

What worked?

• Print and Radio

• Online

• Website

What didn’t?

• Text message

• Helpline

• Within the home 57% or mothers dealt with

questions about sex and relationships,

compared with 4% of fathers

• Certain topics discussed with daughters than

with sons (menstruation (73% vs 33%) and

growing up (83% vs 66%)

Evaluation from Parents

• Supervision & family time – Primary school

parents more likely to supervise daughters

than sons

Evaluation from Parents

• Evaluation

• Dissemination

• Healthy Respect Lothian

What next

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