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Meet the Parents

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Since 2004, Meet the Parents has trained over 60 young parents and has delivered sex and relationship education to more than 3000 students.

The project provides an opportunity for students to find out about the realities of young parenthood directly from those who have experienced it whilst reducing the risk of exclusion faced by young parents.

Training Young Parents

Young parents receive training to be peer-facilitators, giving them specific skills to lead workshops and knowledge of sexual health and relationship issues. Parents develop a toolkit of activities to explore teenage pregnancy using scripted material and drama techniques.

We run training courses for both young mothers and young fathers.

Workshops for Young People

Sessions are delivered to young people aged 13 to 19 (Year 9 and above) in schools and other youth settings. Workshops are delivered by trained young parents, up to the age of 25 who have undergone a 12 week training course to become peer educators. Workshops are designed to meet the specific needs of the group, ranging from a series of small sessions for young people with special needs to one off presentations for larger audiences.

Workshops can focus on the following topics

• Parenting
• Sex and relationships
• Attitudes and values
• Choices and decisions about sex and pregnancy
• Contraception
• Sexual health issues

Hackney and City's Teenage Pregnancy Partnership, of which Meet the Parents is a partner, won a prestigious national award at the 2008 Health and Social Care Awards. The award recognised the achievements of the partnership in achieving a dramatic fall in teenage conception rates of 28% since 1998 - more than double the national average.

Charmain Humphrey, our Meet the Parents Project Coordinator, was one of four nominees for the UK Sexual Health Professional of the Year at the Brook Sexual Health Awards 2009.

Downloads

• Meet the Parents info sheet (PDF)

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