Just 4 Youth has won a contract with Government Office North East, around the roll out of the Department of Health’s You’re Welcome quality criteria, to help health services in the community and hospitals to be young people friendly.
The quality criteria have been developed to support the implementation of standard four of the National Service Framework for Children, Young People, and Maternity Services, and to encourage young people to use local health services and have their health concerns met. The criteria are based on examples of effective practice working with young people aged under 20.
Government Office North East has chosen four partners, one in each of Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham and Tees Valley, who can demonstrate imaginative and innovative ways of involving young people in health service development, delivery, evaluation or assessment linked to You’re Welcome.Just 4 Youth’s winning proposal will see the team deliver a young person led project in Middlesbrough to develop and provide a training course for health staff to enable them to better understand issues from a young person’s perspective and improve their involvement of young people within their service. The young people will design and undertake a peer led research project to discover young people’s opinions on health service providers. Once the research project is complete, the young people will develop a training course, including a toolkit on how services can be improved from a young person’s perspective. They will then deliver the training along with their findings to service providers in four events across the Tees Valley area to help health staff understand issues from a young person’s perspective. They will also be participating in a practice sharing event to disseminate learning in Spring 2009.
