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About The NYA's Youth Work for Health team
Over the last five years The NYA's Youth Work for Health team have been funded by the Department of Health (DH) to work with front line projects delivering an innovative programme of targeted support to young people at high risk of poor health outcomes. The Youth Work for Health (YW4H) pilots grew from the initial Young People’s Development Programme to test new ways of integrating health messages within youth work.
The Team have recently published the 'Good Practice Guidelines For Healthy Youth Work’ - a comprehensive quality assurance tool for organisations that want to extend and improve their services on health issues and ‘Sexplanation’ - a 21st Century update of the sexual health youth work resource the Grapevine Game. Further YW4H resource materials are planned for 2009.
The NYA's Youth Work for Health team is also a partner with the DH on ‘You're Welcome’ – the department standards for promoting better young people friendly health services - and have worked on the development of the Teen Life Check website.
In addition the team offers training to local authorities and third sector organisations on a range of health issues, including sexual health and substance use and we have funding from the DCSF to work with local authorities to improve their services on health within non-formal education including developing e-learning tools on health for the youth work sector.
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- Health Activities Resource Pack (HARP)
- Health Activities Resource Pack – or HARP - is the group work education resource for all who work with young people around health issues including:
- Health News Summary - 21 May 2009
- Headlines are: Number of UK young people with STIs ‘soars’; Resilience programme improves wellbeing of pupils in trial areas; and UK young lack awareness on HIV – UNICEF
- Binge drinking Britain
- A new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has revealed that binge drinking among women has almost doubled since 1998.
