The sexual health charity was commissioned by the government's Teenage Pregnancy Unit to produce guidelines on setting up an outreach service.
Adrian Kelly, teenage pregnancy co-ordinator at City & Hackney Primary Care Trust, welcomed the document's recognition of youth work's role.
"As integrated targeted youth support teams develop, this resource will provide a useful framework for mainstreaming strategies to reduce teenage conceptions and improve young people's sexual health," he said. "It's good to see the tried and tested methods of high-quality youth work being celebrated."
Sexual Health Outreach - Why, What and How says commissioners must give outreach services time to work and have an impact. Simon Blake, chief executive of Brook, said the guidance "gives practical advice around issues that need to be considered that are different to if they are developing policy for school-based education - such as the safety of outreach workers if they are out on the streets in the evening. And training so people understand the boundaries - that they are friendly but not a friend."
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