Shadow (Sexual Health and Drugs Outreach Work) focuses on education and prevention work with young people on sex and relationships education, sexual health, teenage pregnancy, drug education and healthy lifestyles in a range of settings.
The project has been making waves outside the city and impressed YW4H team leader Richard McKie. He said: "Three cheers for Coventry for investing in this approach. It is far and away the biggest youth service health response we've come across - it indicates that here's a service confident and ambitious enough to offer programmes not just for itself but across other educational sectors too."
The second case study looks at a community based organisation in Bolton - Farnworth Inclusion Team - which houses three youth projects, focusing on inclusion and working with "hard to reach" young people.
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