1. SERVICE PROVIDERS’ TRAINING IN
YOUTH FRIENDLY HEALTH SERVICES
INTRODUCTION

2. The overall aim of Training
Programme
• To introduce and orient service
providers to the special
characteristics of young people and
the appropriate approaches to
address selected priority health
needs and problems of young people

3. Training Programme will help answer
two questions
• What do I, as a health-service provider, need
to know and do differently if the person who
walks into my clinic is aged 16 years, rather
than 6 or 36?
• How could I help? Are there other influential
people in my community who understand and
respond better to the needs and problems of
adolescents?

4. Unit objectives
• To introduce facilitators and participants
• To outline the expected outcomes of the Training
Programme
• To explain the agenda for the workshop and list the
units to be covered
• To describe the group work process, its underlying
principles and rules
• To discuss the hopes, expectations and concerns the
participants might have about the Training
Programme

5. Expected outcomes of Training
Programmes
• Be more knowledgeable about the characteristics of
adolescence and development
• Be more sensitive to the needs of young people
• Be better equipped with information and resources
• Be better able to provide youth-friendly health
services
• A personal plan indicating the changes they will make
in their work with young people

6. Units of the Training Programme
1 Introduction
2 Meaning of adolescence and its implications for public health
3 Sexual and reproductive health
• 3A Introduction to sexual and reproductive health
• 3B Sexually transmitted infections in young people
• 3C Pregnancy prevention and fertility regulation in young people
• 3D Care of adolescent pregnancy and child birth
• 3E.Unsafe abortion and young people
• 3F Sexual abuse and young people
• 3G HIV / AIDS and young people
4 Nutrition and young people
5 Substance abuse and young people
6 Mental health and young people
7 Providing young people with the health services they need

7. Ground rules for participatory
learning
• Treating everyone with respect at all times,
irrespective of sex or age
• Ensure and expecting confidentiality
• Agreeing to respect and observe time-keeping and to
begin and end the session on time
• Making sure that everyone has the opportunity to be
heard
• Accepting and giving critical feedback taking care not
to hurt anyone’s feelings
• Drawing on the expertise of facilitators and the
participants in difficult situations