Teenage Kicks Sex and Relationships Outreach Team Teenage

Teenage Kicks Sex and Relationships Outreach Team

Teenage Kicks Team • Deliver a programme of sex and relationships group work covering all aspects of SRE • Using participatory and youth work exercises to explore issues important to the group • Around 6 hours of delivery with each group (3 x 2 hour sessions)

Targeting the young people that we work with Teenage Pregnancy Unit Next Steps Document Young people most at risk of becoming teenage parents: • Early onset of sexual activity • Leaving school at 16 with no qualifications • Poor contraceptive use • Living in Care • Mental health/conduct disorder/involvement in crime • Alcohol and Substance Misuse • Teenage motherhood • Repeat abortions • Low educational attainment • Daughter of teenage mother • Ethnicity • Parental Aspirations

Themes covered in sessions • • • Delay STI’s Contraception Condoms Emergency Contraception Pornography Body image Pregnancy Decision Making Sexuality Self Esteem Abortion Assertiveness

• • • Negotiation Aspirations Values Rights Sex and the law Relationships Pleasure Sexual exploitation Drugs and Alcohol Domestic Abuse Signposting Evaluation

What young people are telling us… • Language: – “virgin, fridgid – slag, slut” – “fraping” • Media: – “Katie Price is a good Mam and a good businesswoman” – “Geordie Shore is mint cos they’re just like us” • Porn: – body image, body hair – “its disgusting” – anal sex, “if you have anal you cant catch nowt – violent sex – “blue waffle, donkey punching” • Condoms: – “he said it was painful so we didn’t use one” – “there’s girls to go out with and girls to f***”

• Relationships: – Sexting and sending pictures “I didn’t know you had to be over 18 to send pics” – Casual sex rather than relationships “we’re just seeing each other, friends with benefits” • Abusive language: – Young man “if my lass did that I would give her a slap” – Young Woman on Rhianna and Chris Brown “she’s a slag in her videos, she’s probly riddled with stuff, I would give her a slap” These issues come up in almost every session we deliver

Working with young people on healthy / unhealthy relationships • Supporting young people to explore and identify what they feel is a healthy relationship • Identifying what is unhealthy in a relationship through discussing issues such as jealousy • Exploring what young people want from the relationships in their lives • Developing skills and awareness around assertiveness, negotiation, confidence and self-esteem to underpin positive relationships • Incorporating these issues / exercises into training we deliver through Newcastle Sexual Health training programme for workers http: //www. newcastle-hospitals. org. uk/services/NHCH_healthimprovement_newcastle-sexual-health-training-directory

What else can we do to support young people to build healthy and safe relationships? • More prevention work on healthy / unhealthy relationships • Media messages and positive role models • Making pleasure part of SRE • Porn versus reality • Challenging assumptions and prejudices in a positive way • Working with young people on their values and where they are at in an open and non judgemental way

If you are working with a group of young people… • And would like Teenage Kicks to deliver our Sex and Relationships programme for them please contact: – jessica. burns@newcastle-pct. nhs. uk – Tel: (0191) 2292913