Sex Factor Ideas 2012 Working With Young People to Submit Ideas Gareth Davies, Sexual Health Projects Manager Jennifer Reiter, Sexual Health Projects Co-ordinator

Brief History Of Sex Factor  Launched September 2011  Purpose: To encourage and empower young Londoners to create ideas to help other young Londoners better care for their sexual health  Linked to the 2012 Sexual Health Legacy Themes: Resilience, Engagement, Transformation  Competition open to year olds living, working or studying in London  Online-based competition (YouTube)

2012 Sexual Health Legacy Themes  Engagement: Young people take a more proactive role in their own sexual health and the sexual health of their peers and communities  Transformation: A paradigm shift in the way that services are accessed by and delivered to young people  Resilience: After 2012, young people will have the skills & knowledge to take responsibility for managing their own sexual health and that of their partners

Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas STEP ONE  Split the group into an even number of small groups with no more than 4 young people per group.  Name as many things you can think of which affect relationships and sexual health for young people in London.  Write each thing on a single post-it note and keep them in a bunch. (Five minutes)  Please note: there are hundreds of different issues so don’t start a conversation about them right now! Just write them down.

Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas STEP TWO  On the flipchart paper the facilitator has already prepared, ask the participants to rank the things they’ve come up with in order of priority.  The most urgent or important thing should be at the top of the diamond and rank them downwards.  If there are more than 9 post-its, the small group will have to decide their top 9 priorities. (Five minutes)

Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas STEP THREE  Split the groups into pairs. These pairs exchange flipcharts.  The facilitator then asks each group to look at the other group’s flipchart and have a conversation (or use prompt questions) about their things and the order they’re in. Do not move any of the post-its! (Three minutes)  Then feedback to the main group or to the group you exchanged flipcharts with about your thoughts on their flipchart. (Three minutes)  After these conversations, if the original groups wish to change any of the things on the flipcharts they created, they can do so now. (Two minutes)

Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas STEP FOUR  Each individual group now looks at their top sexual health issue. Discuss as a group how you would address this in a public health campaign.  Then write it down in a short paragraph or illustrate what you would do. (ten minutes)  NB: Young people don’t have to come up with a fully fledged campaign, rather an idea that can be adapted into a comprehensive campaign.

Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas STEP FIVE  Film yourself or your group members (up to 4 people) telling us your idea or film a piece of paper with the idea written on it or written in a Powerpoint.  Upload your video as a comment response to our Sex Factor instructional video:  with group names, ages, postcodes and title of  Then entries are official!

Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas  Gareth and Jennifer are available until mid-January to visit your young people’s project or service to workshop and film ideas for the competition. We’d love to help! Just us.