Charities, NGOs, Policymakers and Health Organisations

How to understand and apply sexual health/education evidence

We all know we should be applying evidence into practice – but how exactly do we do that? This course provides easy to follow tips and techniques on how to find evidence, critical evaluation skills and putting evidence into practice. All sessions are practical and aimed at busy staff who want to include the latest evidence in their practice but aren’t always sure where to start. [This session works well with How to evaluate your sexual health/education campaigns]

Creating effective sexual health/education media campaigns

Sexual health/education campaigns can be delivered through radio, television, websites, podcasts or text (SMS) messaging. This training event invites you to reflect on the messages you want to deliver, how best to reach your target audience (within your budget), networking with other media, and how to evaluate your media campaign. Drawing on over a decade’s experience of providing sex advice through the UK and other media this session includes case examples of what does and doesn’t work in delivering sex advice to teenagers and/or adult audiences.

How to evaluate your sexual health campaigns

Are you asked to explain what you’ve achieved within your sexual health/education campaigns? Do you need to justify activities such as outreach, education or media activity for funding bodies or other external organisations? Sex and relationships health/education is an area where evaluation can be complex and often practitioners are unsure how to show where they have made an impact. This session outlines a range of flexible and innovative methods you can use to assess small and larger scale impacts your work has had. [This session works well with How to understand and apply sexual health/education evidence]

Behaviour Change 101

Much of our current sexual health activity is based on the idea that it will change behaviour. But how do we know what messages or forms of delivery have the best chance of doing this? Can we really hope to change behaviour, or is this just a pipe dream? What does the research say about trying to change behaviour patterns relating to sexual activity? This session introduces key concepts around behaviour change and takes a critical look at the concept in order to help you reflect on what you are trying to achieve within your organisation. In particular the session focuses on training and managing key staff to ensure everyone working for you is able to understand your key sexual health/education messages in an agreed upon way.

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