We have 2 exciting funding opportunities for our We're All Right project. We are looking for services that work with young people with lived experience of sexual violence - either specialist services or services that support young people on multiple issues including sexual violence. Successful applicants will work in partnership with AYPH to support young people to develop a rights-based approach to sexual violence work.
What we are looking for:
4 partner services from anywhere in the UK to support us to deliver a series of participatory workshops with a group of young people. Each service will receive £7000 over two years
1 partner service to lead a peer evaluation of the project with a group of young people. This will be a service that is already working with a group of young people on the issue of sexual violence and can take on additional responsibilities. This role is funded at £11,500 over two years
The deadline for applications is Monday 2nd February 2020 and the application requires input from young people you are currently working with. Please read the role descriptions in full to ensure your service and young people fit the project's criteria. For more information contact us.
Models of good practice for supporting students with longterm health conditions
As a new term starts we hope that students, universities and colleges will find our 10 recommended actions useful to consider when supporting young people managing longterm health conditions in higher education.
These actions were developed by working with 45 students under 25 yrs old, and 30 professional stakeholders delivering health services in higher education. The project aimed to improve understanding of the needs of students with longterm health conditions and identify and share good practice. The full report of the project, explains how we undertook the work and the key themes from student and stakeholder feedback.
The report and 10 actions were presented at the 2019 SMaRteN Conference held at the University of Cambridge via this poster.
This month we attended the Healthy London Partnership Children and Young People’s Board meeting and presented the key findings, themes and recommendations from our work with young people to find out what they want from Primary Care Networks. The final report from this work will be published shortly.
We were delighted to attend the 5th birthday party of the Rollercoaster parent support group in Durham in January. Rollercoaster represents a groundbreaking way of helping parents of young people with mental health problems. Our projects on parenting show how important this work is.
NHS Youth Summit An illustrated report from the 2019 NHS Youth Summit has been published. Organised and run in collaboration with NHS England, the Young People's Health Partnership, the NHS Youth Forum, RCPCH & Us and iwill, the event was planned & chaired by young people, to give young people the opportunity to work directly with senior leaders from the health system.
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child AYPH Patron Baroness Massey of Darwen urged the Government to commit to the UN's recommendations on children's rights and set out a strategy and action plan to achieve them in the House of Lords this month.
Key Data on Young People 2019
We were very pleased to attend a meeting of the National Council for Child Health and Well-being at the Royal College of Nursing last month, where we presented our work on Key Data on Young People 2019 and the need for further attention to the health inequalities for this age group.
A new study published by the Education Policy Institute on access to child and adolescent mental health services in 2019 looks at access to specialist services, waiting times for treatment, and provision for the most vulnerable children and young people in England.
From this month a new Department for Education scheme will enable schools & colleges to order a range of free period products to give young people easy access when they need them.
NHS England are looking for children with cancer, and their parents, to take part in discussion groups in London, Bristol and Manchester to help develop a new Under 16s Cancer Patient Experience Survey. All participants will receive a £30 gift voucher
Sense and the ukactive Research Institute are working together to understand how families with a child or children with complex disabilities engage in physical activity. Parents of disabled children can share their views and experiences of accessing sport and physcial activity which will be used to develop new services and support.
A new report from HM Inspectorate of Prisons reviews the separation of children in young offender institutions and calls for a major overhaul of harmful separation of children in young offender custody.
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The Adolescent Health Conference: Working Together to Bridge the Gaps
This multi-disciplinary conference has been designed for doctors and trainees at all career stages and will feature experts from primary and secondary care. Sessions will include: adolescent brain development, sleep, reducing health inequalities, eating disorders and social media.
