Health and wellbeing for all?
Is our new PINS theme
Positive health and wellbeing is a resource for learning. We will be exploring the importance of many aspects of health and wellbeing on the PINS site and via our PINS events. Here are just a few of the latest resources and sources of information to support your work.
Mental and emotional wellbeing
New - New approaches to preventing mental health problems arising among 16-25 year-olds
A multi-million pound initiative called ‘Right Here’, run by the Mental Health Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, is looking to fund pilots that will test different approaches to prevention work. First stage applications should be received by 18 December. The website’s ‘Resource Centre’ contains Mental Health Foundation research and information briefings.
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Young Scotland in Mind
Led by Barnardos, this forum helps bring together voluntary sector organisations across Scotland to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Their website includes an online forum.
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Bebo social network site for young people’s mental health
In collaboration with Penumbra and a group of young people, Well Scotland’s National Programme has created a profile page on Bebo where young people can chat and share information. The aim of the forum is to raise awareness of positive mental health and wellbeing, and help to create a young people’s ‘mental health movement’. It is targeted at young people aged between 13-18 years old.
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Headroom campaign
Launched in summer 2008, Headroom is a long-term campaign (delivered on television, online and in the community) to raise awareness of mental health issues and encourage everyone to look after their mental wellbeing.
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The importance of food to health and so to learning
New - Scotland’s children’s diet too high in sugar
With sweets, biscuits and cakes playing too much of a part in what children eat, particularly in Scotland’s poorest communities. The report from the Food Standards Agency evidences there is some way to go to reach Scottish Dietary Targets.
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New - New nutritional requirements for schools
A guide to implementing nutritional requirements for food and drink in schools was issued by the Scottish Government in September 2008.
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‘Eat well, be well’
The Food Standards Agency website has sections on children and on teenagers, with quizzes, menus, hints on worries (e.g. spots, for teenagers).
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Healthy eating websites for children and for young people
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The impact of substance misuse on learning
New - Educ’alcool
This pioneering campaign from Quebec is influencing Scotland’s responses to our relationship with alcohol – the site includes resources and ideas about working with children and young people
Take me to this resource'Drugs - What Every Parent Should Know'
Information booklet suggests ways to engage with young people, gives information about drugs and identifying drugs use, and what to do in an emergency.
Visit Know The Score website for general information, or call the helpline on 0800 587 5879, for copies of the leaflet.
The new 2008 Guide to Stopping Smoking for Young People
A step-by-step guide from Quit Because.
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The importance of relationships and sexual health
New - A Review of Resources to Support Parents as Co-Educators in Sex and Relationship Education
NHS Health Scotland have commissioned a review to identify the best resources that support parents and carers in this key role. The Review will also identify what gaps there are. If you know of good resources which parents use or you use in your work with parents contact the Review team: Kate Betney at TASC on 0131 5553527
or email kate@tascagency.eclipse.co.uk for more
New - The ABC of Sex and Relationships Education: Approaches, Benefits and Constraints
This international conference will take place 7-9 September 2009 in Birmingham. It will consider various approaches and explore some of the barriers to more effective working in the area.
Take me to more information about this conference here'Does the law matter? Young people, sex and relationships'.
Children 1st and ChildLine in Scotland held a conference in June 2008 on this theme, and have published a summary report of the issues raised, as a contribution to discussion on the Sex Offence (Scotland) Bill, currently progressing through the Scottish Parliament.
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Sexperience – The Sex Education Show
A weekly television show on Channel 4, Tuesdays at 8pm, complemented by a well-resourced website which also archives all the programmes. Presented by journalist Anna Richardson, this six-part series “aims to tackle the nation's sexual ignorance and reticence by capturing a wide range of different personal experiences of sexual issues and problems, as well as offering candid advice.”
The series will discuss the sex lives of teenagers as they talk about pornography, abortion, STIs, homosexuality, peer pressure and pregnancy. The series also includes the results of a television survey of teenage attitudes to sex.
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Engaging excluded young people in sports and physical activity
New - Energising Lives: A Guide to Promoting Physical Activity in Primary Care
The guide provides the evidence base for promoting physical activity and summarises the current guidelines around recommended levels of physical activity for different life stages and supports practitioners by translating these recommendations into everyday routine advice and encouragement for patients. Energising Lives has been divided into four parts for easy navigation and reference and is available in a spiral bound format for sharing information with patients.
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General supports and resources for practice
New - Tobacco education resources
Tobacco use kills 13,500 people in Scotland every year and remains Scotland's greatest public health challenge. ASH Scotland raises awareness about the impact of tobacco n Scotland’s health. A range of resources to support work with children and young people are available.
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New - Youth Health Talk
This website with video and audio clips from interviews in which young people describe their experiences of health and illness. It is operated by the charity DIPEx. Sections include: Epilepsy, Sexual Health, Long Term Health Conditions. Young people can also join forums.
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New - Equally Well: Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities
This concludes that health inequalities remain a significant challenge in Scotland. Priority areas include children, particularly in the early years. Recommendations include redesigning and refocusing public services through health inequalities learning networks. These will operate initially through a small number of test sites within community planning partnerships.
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