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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
