Health and Wellbeing: A guide to working with young people

This guide was developed as a resource for Youth Workers and a wide range of other professionals and volunteers who deliver health and well-being messages to children and young people aged 11-25. It provides health promotion information and activities on a range of topic areas.

Topics covered are:

Icebreakers	Smoking
Food and Fitness	Alcohol
Emotional Well-being	Drugs
Sexual Health and Relationships	Immunisations

Each section contains a number of activities which can be delivered as required either as part of a programme of study or as standalone sessions. Also included within each section is some background information about each topic and a list of useful contacts or websites.

The guide is presented as a pdf document, which will need to be opened in Adobe Acrobat. (Adobe Acrobat Reader is available as a free download here).

Please note:

For some of the activities you will need internet access to view videos
Throughout the guide there are worksheets for which you will need access to a printer
Two PowerPoint presentations are available for download separately:
- Health and wellbeing youth worker guide- The Target Audience
- HPV: Help beat cervical cancer