County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document

- A young person may work with sexual health outreach workers as a
link to vulnerable young people who may otherwise not access a
service.
- A young person who has previously used an advice, information
and/or contraception service may be ‘employed’ as voluntary
receptionists or they may be employed part-time.
- A young person could be part of a clinic team and could act as a
young person’s liaison officer.
- Linking with Sure Start it may be possible for young people to act as
parent educators regarding contraception advice.
- The young person at a clinic may also become the person that
outside agencies contact on behalf of a young person who wants to
access an information/advice/contraceptive service.
- Young people can give advice to professionals via a particular
group, for instance young people could be drawn from schools,
youth groups, drop-in centres and as a result of contact with Sexual
Health Outreach Workers, and could form their own group which
advises, guides and informs the medical professionals about the
services offered.
- These are all possibilities for action in ten years time, they will be
assessed and those accepted will be formatted and set out in
procedures for action.
8. Mechanisms to periodically check/research young peoples level
of awareness of services and their perceptions and experiences.
To advertise services a set of procedures must be established which detail
how the advertising will be funded. For instance, posters of clinic times and
places must be planned centrally, printed and there must be an agreement
about who will be responsible for changing them when updated information is
sent to various agencies/community settings. See Media part of this strategy
for details of how this is to be achieved.
To check levels of awareness of services, perceptions and experiences:
Awareness of services – short questionnaires may be carried out in various
settings, for example schools, further education colleges, youth clubs,
residential settings, youth offenders institutions.
Perceptions and Experiences – use of the evaluation tool kit promoted by the
Health Promotion Research Unit (August 2000) will enable professionals to
assess how young people felt about using the information/advice/
contraceptive service.
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