Sex Factor Ideas 2012

1. Sex Factor Ideas 2012 Working With Young People to Submit Ideas Gareth Davies, Sexual Health Projects Manager Jennifer Reiter, Sexual Health Projects Co-ordinator

2. Brief History Of Sex Factor • Launched September 2011 • Purpose: To encourage and empower young Londoners to create ideas to help other young Londoners better care for their sexual health • Linked to the 2012 Sexual Health Legacy Themes: Resilience, Engagement, Transformation • Competition open to 16-25 year olds living, working or studying in London • Online-based competition (YouTube)

3. 2012 Sexual Health Legacy Themes • Engagement: Young people take a more proactive role in their own sexual health and the sexual health of their peers and communities • Transformation: A paradigm shift in the way that services are accessed by and delivered to young people • Resilience: After 2012, young people will have the skills & knowledge to take responsibility for managing their own sexual health and that of their partners

4. Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas STEP ONE • Split the group into an even number of small groups with no more than 4 young people per group. • Name as many things you can think of which affect relationships and sexual health for young people in London. • Write each thing on a single post-it note and keep them in a bunch. (Five minutes) • Please note: there are hundreds of different issues so don’t start a conversation about them right now! Just write them down.

5. Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas STEP TWO • On the flipchart paper the facilitator has already prepared, ask the participants to rank the things they’ve come up with in order of priority. • The most urgent or important thing should be at the top of the diamond and rank them downwards. • If there are more than 9 post-its, the small group will have to decide their top 9 priorities. (Five minutes)

6. Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas STEP THREE • Split the groups into pairs. These pairs exchange flipcharts. • The facilitator then asks each group to look at the other group’s flipchart and have a conversation (or use prompt questions) about their things and the order they’re in. Do not move any of the post-its! (Three minutes) • Then feedback to the main group or to the group you exchanged flipcharts with about your thoughts on their flipchart. (Three minutes) • After these conversations, if the original groups wish to change any of the things on the flipcharts they created, they can do so now. (Two minutes)

7. Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas STEP FOUR • Each individual group now looks at their top sexual health issue. Discuss as a group how you would address this in a public health campaign. • Then write it down in a short paragraph or illustrate what you would do. (ten minutes) • NB: Young people don’t have to come up with a fully fledged campaign, rather an idea that can be adapted into a comprehensive campaign.

8. Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas STEP FIVE • Film yourself or your group members (up to 4 people) telling us your idea or film a piece of paper with the idea written on it or written in a Powerpoint. • Upload your video as a comment response to our Sex Factor instructional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN53SmEsQl8 • Email jennifer.reiter@mbarc.co.uk with group names, ages, postcodes and title of idea. • Then entries are official!

9. Workshop: Submitting Sex Factor Ideas • Gareth and Jennifer are available until mid-January to visit your young people’s project or service to workshop and film ideas for the competition. We’d love to help! Just email us. gareth.davies@mbarc.co.uk jennifer.reiter@mbarc.co.uk