Sexual Health and Wellbeing learning
Over the coming year, Health Scotland's Sexual Health and Wellbeing programme will provide a range of learning opportunities to support the ongoing dissemination of evidence and practice around sexual wellbeing.
Dates and locations for all of the learning opportunities detailed below are yet to be finalised. For further information, please email Shirley Fraser – shirley.fraser@health.scot.nhs.uk.
Sharing Answers around Teenage Pregnancy
On 8 May Health Scotland, together with the Scottish Executive and Brook, held a conference to share ideas and experiences in tackling teenage pregnancy and other issues influencing the sexual wellbeing of young people across Scotland and England. Keynote presentations, listed below, highlighted the challenges of working in remote and rural areas, addressing risk taking factors as a single approach, helping children keep safe through school based drama and the work of the Teenage Pregnancy Unit in England. Participants also took the opportunity to consider the challenges facing them in roundtable discussions: a summary of the comments received is being collated but two clear messages were: continued support for the Sexual Health and Wellbeing Network activites and an acknowledgement that influencing partners through networking requires protected time.
Participants also provided feedback on some of the issues that will be explored as part of the stocktake review of Respect and Responsibility. This will be made available to the successful agency who is contracted to undertake this work (to be announced at end of June)
Simon Blake, Brook
Shirley Fraser, NHS Health Scotland
Alison Hadley, Teenage Pregnancy Unit
Jane Hughes, Brook
Lorraine Mann, NHS Highland and Linda Birnie, Brook
Dona Milne, Healthy Respect
Pamela Vannan, NHS Forth Valley and Evelyn Kennedy, Open Secret
Melody Williams, South West Essex Primary Care Trust
Sex and Relationships Practitioners' Forum Seminars
A series of themed seminars aimed at those working in formal and informal educational settings to consider sexual health and relationships issues. Organised on a national basis but at different regional locations, these will highlight emerging evidence and different ways of working through a mix of formal presentations and workshop discussions.
Evidence into Practice Seminar
Sexual Health Needs of Young People with Learning Disabilities and those from BME Communities.
This one-day event will highlight the evidence around the sexual health needs of those experiencing poor sexual ill health. Bringing together researchers and practitioners, evidence on what young people with learning disabilities and young people from BME communities experience in accessing services and learning about sex and relationships will be shared. Reports and evidence briefings will be posted on the web to facilitate wider sharing of this knowledge.
SHARE Train the Trainers
This six-day Train the Trainers course is aimed at those who work in sexual health and who wish to support front-line practitioners to use the SHARE educational resource for young people of secondary school age. Places will be awarded on the basis of knowledge and experience demonstrated, together with a commitment to deliver local training programmes.
For more information please email us – share@health.scot.nhs.uk