Partnership between the NYCI, the Health Service Executive and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs

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National Youth Health Programme

• Kevin O Hagan
  Siobhan Brennan
• www.youthhealth.ie
• Tel[phone]

• Partnership between the NYCI, the Health Service
  Executive and the Department of Children and
  Youth Affairs

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What we do?

• Broad range of Youth Health Promotion Training
  courses
• Specialist Certificate in Youth Health Promotion
  (accredited by NUI Galway)
• Health Quality Mark
  
• Health promoting Youth Organisation
• Resource Development
• Support, advice and information service

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Health Quality Mark
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Aim of the Health Quality Mark

• To recognise and acknowledge quality health
  promotion in Youth Organisations.

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Context for the Health Quality Mark

• Questions regarding the Impact and Sustainability
  of training
• International good practice regarding quality
  frameworks in Health Promotion
• Developed from the World Health Organisation -
  Health Promotion School concept
• Identified need for professional development on
  Health promotion within youth sector.
• Based on evidence informed Settings based
  approach to Health Promotion

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Rational for Health Quality Mark

• The Settings based approach to Health Promotion
• The place or social context in which people
  engage in daily activities in which environmental
  organisational and personal factors interact to
  affect health and wellbeing.
• World Health Organisation (1998)

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A Health Promoting Environment

• People feel valued
• Self-esteem is fostered
• Respect, tolerance and fairness are evident
• High expectations and standards are promoted
• Support for those in difficulties

• Effort recognised and rewarded
• Uniqueness and difference are valued.
• Conflict is handled constructively
• Initiative and creativity are encouraged
• Social, Moral and civic values are promoted.

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• The Health Quality Mark encourages and
  facilitates youth organisations to develop and
  deliver a whole organisational approach to
  promoting health. This can happen at four
  distinct levels as follows

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Health Quality Mark
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Objectives of HQM

• To develop and sustain quality health promotion
  in youth organisations.
• To ensure good practice in health promotion
  through needs assessment, planning, implementing
  and evaluation of all health promotion activities
  throughout the organisation
• To promote a whole organisational approach to
  Health Promotion

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Objectives of HQM

• To ensure that health related policies,
  programmes and practice are integrated
  effectively.
• To promote the health of all those involved in
  the youth organisation
• To ensure that work is consistently documented.
• To stimulate and encourage a culture of assessing
  quality.

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3 Year Process

• Phase 1 Expression of interest and meeting with
  Health Team
• Phase 2 Completion of Specialist Cert
• Phase 3 Agree procedures for ongoing support
• Phase 4 Portfolio of evidence
• Phase 5 Assessment of portfolio and site visit
  (NYHP HSE staff)
• Phase 6 Ongoing support to sustain HQM (CIP)
  HQM Support Network

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HQM Structure

• Gold HQ-Mark All 12 criteria to be successfully
  implemented
• Silver HQ-Mark Any 8 criteria to be successfully
  implemented
• Bronze HQ-Mark 4 Criteria Any 2 criteria plus
  1. Health Promotion
• 2. Health Promoters Role
  Description
• Terms of Reference for the
  Health
• Promotion Team

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Health Quality Mark Criteria

• 1. Health promotion policy
• 2. Health promoter health promotion team
• 3. Health promotion strategy to include Youth
  Health Workplace.
• 4. Youth participation structures
• 5. Peer Health Promotion Initiative
• 6. Resource Bank for Health promotion

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Health Quality Mark Criteria

• 7. Training plan for staff, volunteers and
  management
• 8. Inter-sectoral working and partnerships
• 9. Model of Good Practice for Health Promotion
  Activities Needs Assessment, Planning,
  Implementation and Evaluation
• 10. Health and Safety Policy and Procedures
• 11. Ensuring and Promoting Equality and
  Inclusiveness
• 12. Child Protection Policy and Procedures

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Evaluation of the Health Quality Mark

• The HQM has positive impacts at the level of
  individual young people, staff, volunteers and
  the organisation
• Process is very important
• Having a target of an award to work toward is
  described as motivating
• The assessment dimension indicates a respect for
  the process and results in satisfaction
• Criteria highlight areas that require attention
• NUI Galway 2007

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Evaluation of the Health Quality Mark

• Impact on Young People
• It was seen to instill a sense of pride and
  achievement
• It provided greater opportunities to work on
  health related topics
• It enhanced their experience of youth
  participation through greater involvement in all
  aspects of health promotion in the organisation
• It increased their self confidence
• It impacted positively on their overall health
  status, e.g. through the provision of needs-based
  programmes on cooking and nutrition, the
  provision of healthy food and snacks.

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Evaluation of the Health Quality Mark

• Impact on Staff and Volunteers
• Providing staff with training opportunities
• Fostering a greater awareness of youth health
  issues
• Improving teamwork and a sense of ownership of
  the HQM process.
• Impact on the Youth Organisation
• Familiarise staff with the process of information
  gathering
• Enhance the image of the organisation within the
  community
• Provide tangible evidence of their quality of
  work in relation to health
• Improve overall teamwork between staff and
  management
• Embed the issue of health within the overall work
  of the organisation.

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Challenges

• Switching focus from Award to Process
• Staff turnover
• Moving from individual to team approach
• Moving from issue based health promotion to a
  whole organisational approach
• Perception of the assessment process

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HQM Organisations

• 40 Youth Organisations involved in the process.
• Target of 50 by end of 2012
• Support Manual available to assist organisation
  in the reflection process and preparation of the
  portfolio.

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Specialist Certificate in Youth Health Promotion
(accredited by NUIG)

• Summary of course content
• Theory and Practice of Health Education, Health
  Promotion
• Group work Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Quality Assurance in Youth Health Promotion
• Needs Assessment, Planning, Implementation and
  Evaluation
• Mission, Vision, Ethos, Policy Development,
  Strategy Development
• Partnership, Advocacy, Lobbying, Youth
  Participation
• Practical assignments linked to the work of the
  organisation and HQM

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Auditing your Organisation

• 1. Health promotion policy
• 2. Health promoter health promotion team
• 3. Health promotion strategy to include Youth
  Health Workplace.
• 4. Youth participation structures
• 5. Peer Health Promotion Initiative
• 6. Resource Bank for Health promotion

• 7. Training plan for staff, volunteers and
  management
• 8. Inter-sectoral working and partnerships
• 9. Model of Good Practice for Health Promotion
  Activities
• 11. Ensuring and
• Promoting Equality
• and Inclusiveness
• 12. Child Protection Policy and Procedures

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National Youth Health Programme

• Kevin O Hagan
  Siobhan Brennan
• www.youthhealth.ie
• Tel[phone]

• Partnership between the NYCI, the Health Service
  Executive and the Department of Children and
  Youth Affairs