HYP HOP SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS EDUCATION TRAINING

HYP HOP Sex and Relationships Education training programmes provide training for teachers, youth and community workers, Connexions personal advisors, professionals working in statutory and voluntary organisations and other professionals who are involved with the delivery of sex and relationships education programmes to young people.

The training programme includes:

• Delivery of one day HYP Hop training programme
• Follow up half day session to include presentations from participants on how they have incorporated the HYP Hop model to enhance their work with young people (optional)
• Pre- course questionnaire and final evaluation of training

Aims of the HYP HOP training programme:

• Respond to staff training needs in order to provide the best possible sex and relationships education to young people
• Deliver sex and relationships education training to help professionals working with young people to facilitate the HYP Hop Model of Sex and Relationships Education programme to young people including the most vulnerable.
• Provide and support effective, multi-agency, competence-based learning to enable young people including the most vulnerable to learn together with teaching staff and others who are appropriately trained to meet their needs.

The HYP HOP Sex and Relationships Education programme includes:

• Personal belief systems
• Adolescent Sexuality
• National Context Adolescent Sexual Health
• The Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) Framework
• Key Issues including Confidentiality and Consent
• HYP Hop model of Sex and Relationships

HYM (Healthy Young Men) TRAINING PROGRAMME

Programme Aims

• To equip health and other professionals with the knowledge and skills in order to develop and implement creative and innovative practice when working with boys and young men
• To provide participants with an understanding of key theories which underpin practice including; masculinity role theory, stereotyping and risk-taking behaviour

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the HYM Training delegates should be able to:

1. Debate and challenge key documents and relevant issues surrounding boys and young men's health incorporating a holistic approach including emotional and personal well-being, sexual orientation, culture, diversity and access to services including sexual health
2. Define ways in which boys and young men can build self esteem and negotiation skills in order to resist peer pressure (inter-linking pertinent issues such as; teenage pregnancy; safer sex practices; drug and alcohol use)
3. Identify and justify effective methods of communication in order to enable boys and young men to explore relationships including reference to fatherhood
4. Consider themes of engagement and service development and identify at least three ways in which professionals can positively influence boys and young men's health

Indicative Course Content Including Learning and Teaching Strategies

The training takes the Social Exclusion Unit Teenage Pregnancy Report (SEU 1999) and its associated teenage pregnancy targets; Guidance for Developing Contraception and Sexual Health Advice Services to Reach Boys and Young Men (TPU, Department of Health 2000) and Boy's and Young Men's Health (Health Development Agency 2002 as key references.

The HYM training programme explicitly links with the intended learning outcomes detailed above. All presentations and group exercises are included within the delegate packs in order to inspire ideas for delegate's own professional practice leading to service development to meet the needs of boys and young men.

Use this link to download the HYM pre-course package (PDF 114KB)

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