Your Health

Health

Denbighshire Youth Service has a dedicated Nutrition and Health Worker who primarily supports young people, to make positive lifestyle choices relating to nutrution and health. Young People's Health workers work with the Young People's Health Services through Youth Centres across the County.

The service we provide encourages all young people from all social and cultural groups, aged 11-25, to participate, particularly those that live in the most deprived areas, and where inequalities in health are the greatest.

What do we do?

The main focus of the work is to develop and deliver programmes which offer and improve the health and wellbeing of young people and improve young people's capacity to live independently through:

Accredited peer-led programmes on health.
Independent Living Skills programme.
Garden Allotment scheme where young people learn how to grow organic vegetables and about environmental issues such as local procurement, globalisation and sustainability.
Learn how to cook healthy meals through lunch clubs and evening sessions.
Young people's Health Challenge Programme.
Enable young people to have a voice on health issues.
Fruit provision centres in Youth Centres/Projectss.
Health in the community workshops.
Young People's Health Service
Promote healthy lifestyle.
Examine drug, alcohol and smoking issues.
Baby Think It Over programmes.
Forging links with other projects which tackle the causes of ill health and to provide a holistic approach for young people.
Joint work with schools, Rhyl Football, Denbigh Youth Project, West Rhyl Young People's Project.

Where?

Denbighshire Youth Service Youth Centres and supported projects.
Denbigh Young People's Health Service, Denbigh Youth Centre, Middle Lane, Denbigh.
Ruthin Young People's Health Service, Ruthin Youth Centre, Denbigh Road, Ruthin.