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Empowering Youth: Impact of Youth Workers on Health Programs

Learn about the vital role of youth workers in engaging with young people, creating trust, developing programs, and supporting health initiatives. They reach marginalized youth and collaborate with schools, communities, and organizations to improve health outcomes.

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Empowering Youth: Impact of Youth Workers on Health Programs

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  1. Fiona Blacke Chief Executive The National Youth Agency

  2. What do youth workers do? • Engage with young people on their terms/territory • Create trusting relationships • Develop learning programmes based on young people's own reality, interests and concerns • Act as broker • Supports voice and influence • Work in partnership • Celebrate achievement

  3. Range and context • Universal and targeted • IYSS, TYS • LA and third sector/community organisations • Schools, centres and streets

  4. Contribution to the Health Agenda Getting health messages to young people - mass reach • 500,000 Guides and Brownies • 30,000 young people on Positive Futures • Young people have a million contacts with youth workers each month (NYA stats and DoH Nov 2007) • Support to delivery of mainstream PHSE • Support young people’s engagement in service shaping

  5. Contribution to the health agenda Reaches the young people the rest of the system fails, or those who are marginalised • Targeted programmes with young people with specific issues e.g. drug users • Key role in advice and counselling • Targeted Preventative Programmes - on sex and relationships - linked to teenage pregnancy indicators

  6. Partnership working • Bridging tier 1 and 2 - the windscreen wiper • Youth Information and Advice Services as part of CAHMS offer • Partnerships with young people • Integrated working across localities/schools

  7. The challenges • Recognising that Every Child Matters is a package • Developing shared understanding • Making IYSS/TYS work • Joint commissioning • Making voice and influence a reality

  8. Opportunities • The policy environment • Building on what's there • Joint workforce development • Building health in to the local youth offer • Developing youthwork contribution to PSHE

  9. Working together to radically improve the life chances of young people

  10. Tools for the job… • You’re Welcome Quality criteria www.dh.gov.uk/publications • Hear by Right for Health www.nya.org.uk/hearbyright • Participation Works www.participationworks.org.uk

  11. www.nya.org.uk/yw4h

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