Engaging with young people
We put young people at the centre of all our work. These resources share how we develop and facilitate youth led participation work. We are experts in delivering safe and meaningful participation work with young people from groups more likely to experience health inequalities and young people who have experienced violence and trauma. For some more examples of how we put this into practice, look at our resources highlighting young people’s voices.
We’re All Right
Visit our learning hub all about rights-based sexual violence support
Ethics of engagement
Themes from research and young people about engaging young people in health research & service design
Young people and ethics
Produced with Common Room, this briefing explores young people’s perspectives on the ethical issues when they are involved in engagement and co-production.
Language matters
Briefing paper on the language and terminology used to describe young people’s health inequalities.
Participation statement
An imagined conversation that outlines our approach to participation work.
Supporting LGBTQ+ children and young people in health services
Earlier this year we were commissioned by The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to ensure young people were involved in the review of their ‘Supporting LGBTQ+ Children and Young People...
Young people’s health is impacted by our human rights as well, who knew…
In this blog, AYPH’s Youth Engagement & Partnership Project Manager, Nick Morgan shares reflections from our Young Ambassadors on a human rights and health workshop, run for the AYPH Youth...
Everyone should be heard…making Excess Weight Clinics work for Children, Young People and Families
For the last two years AYPH has worked with the NHS Complications from Excess Weight (CEW) clinics focusing on understanding the perspectives of young people and their families. We are delighted to...
Engaging young people in NHS service delivery and development
Everyone is agreed that young people need to be involved at all levels of our healthcare system, from shaping the care they are receiving at the front line right up to co-designing and inputting to...
Type 1, not typecast
In 2023 Andrew took part in our engagement project ‘Understanding the experiences of young people with type 1 diabetes from communities that experience marginalisation’. As someone living with Type...
Understanding the experiences of young people with epilepsy from communities that experience marginalisation
Epilepsy is one of the most common significant long-term neurological conditions of childhood and one of the five clinical areas of focus in the NHS England ‘Core20PLUS5’ approach to reducing health...
Understanding health inequalities for young people who are care experienced
As part of AYPH’s health inequalities programme we have focused on the health inequalities for different groups of young people. We are very pleased to present the findings from our exploration of...
Comfortable spaces open up conversations
As we launch findings from our recent series of engagement events with young people and families in Complications from Excess Weight clinics, Lindsay Starbuck, AYPH Youth Participation coordinator,...
Climate change and young people’s health
Throughout 2022 we supported our Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) to conduct a youth-led inquiry into how climate change is affecting young people’s health. The panel wanted to understand how the...
The importance of rights respecting youth spaces
Following our We’re All Right project we have had the pleasure of developing and running youth led workshops on creating rights based approaches. These highlighted the important role of free youth...