County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document

• Parents as Educators training
In Easington extend the Community based health groups for members
specifically interested in sexual health.
Healthy Living Centre proposal (The Dales) includes a two part programme for
parents: ten orientation sessions with offered follow up on Talking to Teenagers,
handling Teenage Behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, Drugs and Alcohol. The
proposal is a partnership including South Durham Health Care, Specialist Health
Promotion Services, Youth and Community, Wear Valley District Council.
• Standards Fund 2000 – 2001 and 2001 – 2002 Teenage Pregnancy Grant
County Durham has been awarded Standards Fund Grant. The fund has been
used to help named schools in their work to reduce teenage pregnancy rates and
a specialist reintegration officer has been appointed to work across the county
and liaise with the existing education personnel working with school age mothers.
The officer undertakes some co-ordination of information regarding preventative
approaches and works closely with the Teenage Pregnancy Co-ordinator and the
Sure Start Partnerships. Childcare costs are available if required to enable full
attendance.
• Education Action Zones
The Peterlee Education Action Zone plans to include work with young parents as
part of its programme. This could include for example work with a teenage mum,
in preparing her child for his or her first SATS. It might involve work with a young
dad using information technology. In either case the objective is to take a whole
family approach, and enhance the parents overall communication and rapport
with the child. This in turn will contribute to improved educational attainment, and
quality of life for the family.
• Sure Start projects include provision for teenage parents
The issue of provision for children with teenage parents is being considered in
the development of each of these projects, which will act as sources of innovation
for development on a wider basis.
• Launch of PSK2 workshops on sexual health for peer education on the
March 2000, and then made available to secondary schools in Darlington.
• Easington Young with a Baby Project
Easington Teenage Parenthood Peer Education Project has been funded by the
Easington Health Implementation Group. This is based on a previous project
‘Young With A Baby’.
• Young People’s Reference Group and Sexual Health
Investing in Children will develop a group of young people interested in sexual
health as an interest area, working with a consultant to help them access suitable
material, resolve obstacles, and explore issues in a way relevant and useful to
themselves. Over the period April to December 2000, the group was recruited,
and based on an initial discussion of key issues relate to sexual health and
contraceptive provision, sex and relationships education, and other aspects of
interest to the group members, will embark on a developmental programme. This
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