Goals: To improve the health and wellbeing of teenagers in Leeds
Funding: Local primary care trust, Connexions and the Young People's Development Programme
When the Cupboard Project was set up in 1997, it originally focused on condom distribution and pregnancy testing. But workers soon found that young people also needed help with the worries of teenage life. So the South Leeds Health for All scheme was expanded to offer more support services.
Now the project works with young people who are generally not reached by mainstream services and runs initiatives such as the Open Door group, which works with Asian young people with learning difficulties, and Traveller Girls, a group for young women from Traveller families.
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