Youth Health

The Base has dedicated an entire programme to young people’s health and that following a consultation with young people from the Ballyfermot/ Cherry Orchard area. Through this consultation, young people expressed very clearly a need for information and support around their mental health, sexual health; substance related health issues as well as their general well being.

The Youth Health Programme is a programme funded by the HSE and managed by the Base Youth Centre. The Youth Health Programme provides a youth friendly health initiative as well as meeting the young people's health needs through the provision of specific and appropriate responses. The Youth Health Programme strives to play an active coordination role around young people accessing and linking in with health related services and programmes, as well as supporting these services in their efforts to provide a more youth friendly and accessible service.

The Youth Health Programme objectives:

• To promote youth health through ongoing work and collaboration with local service providers, schools and HSE services.
• To work toward a youth friendly model of health care
• To promote communication and collaboration between local service providers and HSE services.
• To be considered as a health hub for young people and service providers in the area
• To deliver innovative and creative youth health programmes
• To build the capacity of the local service providers to ensure the ongoing delivery of health programmes.
• To build the capacity of the young people around advocacy, peer education and mentoring
• To develop an inter-agency referral system