Health Resources
YouthLead has curated a list of recommended tools and resources to aid you this week as we highlight the importance of health rights.
COVID-19
Fighting The Unseen Impacts of COVID-19: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing
Courtesy of: YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation
For those who are most vulnerable, the stress related to staying safe and practicing good hygiene can present a real and particularly acute challenge. This webinar explores the seen and unseen impacts of the pandemic on our mental health, especially on vulnerable groups; specific tools and resources we can adopt to promote wellbeing for ourselves and others in our community; opportunities for young changemakers to play a vital role in disseminating fact-based information on COVID-19 and promoting mental health.
Courtesy of: USAID
Responses to previous global public health emergencies and pandemics and COVID-19 to date clearly show that integrating a commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment in activity design and implementation is vital to supporting affected communities and saving lives. Here is a list of issues and recommendations for all sectors.
Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care and Justice in the Global COVID-19 Response
Courtesy of: The Lancet
The complex interplay between biological and behavioural risk factors needs to be recognised during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Systems
Health Services: Toolkit on Adolescents Living with HIV
Courtesy of: YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation
For service providers, policy makers, advocates, and organizations planning on providing or currently providing testing, treatment, and care for adolescents living with HIV, this section provides job aids, quality of care standards, and training tools.
What Works in Youth and Health?
Courtesy of: YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation
YouthPower Learning has been gathering information on what works in youth programming. Access this curated list of information regarding a broad range of youth health topics.
Courtesy of: USAID
Reliable electricity can mean life or death for patients in developing country health-care facilities. This toolkit provides a five-step approach to health-care facility electrification, reference material regarding technical equipment, and tools, examples, and standards to use throughout the process.
USAID Vision for Health System Strengthening 2030
Courtesy of: USAID
Learn USAID’s ten-year vision for strengthening health systems which is rooted in health system strengthening (HSS) approaches that are based on whole-of-society engagement, locally-driven solutions, and social and behavior change.
Youth Volunteering and Social Action in Health and Social Care
Courtesy of: Department of Health and Social Care (UK)
This is a toolkit to help health and social care organizations engage with young people as volunteers. Find guidance to help you adapt and improve the impact and inclusiveness of what you already do. Set up new and ambitious volunteering and social action initiatives with and for children and young people.
Mental Health
Courtesy of: YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation
Learn about what affects our mental health day to day, how to implement good practices into organizations and how to navigate the particularly trying and uncertain times we are currently experiencing.
Courtesy of: USAID's Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Taskforce
Understand what mental health is, what a lack of mental health can look like, what mental illness looks like in various populations, and, lastly, how to best ensure you, your friends, your family, and your community can maintain, be aware, and understand mental health and its various faces.
Social Inclusion of Youth With Mental Health Conditions
Courtesy of: United Nations
Mental-health conditions have a significant impact on the development of over a billion youth and their social and economic integration, including employability. The primary purpose of this report is to draw on available research to raise awareness of youth mental-health conditions among relevant stakeholders and to start a global conversation regarding strategies for addressing the challenges faced by young people, with the overarching goal of fostering their economic and social integration.
Courtesy of: Youth For Mental Health Coalition,Inc.
To help promote well-being in our society, the Youth For Mental Health Coalition, Inc., a group of student organizations and youth advocates in the Philippines working to educate people about mental health and alleviate the stigma surrounding it, created a mental health kit in a form of a story template which consists of a self-care check particularly on a person's mental health especially during this time of global health crisis.
10 Ways To Improve Your Mental Wellbeing Through Covid
Courtesy of: uncustomary.org
It has been a difficult year for everyone, we have been plummeted into an unknown world of quarantine and social restrictions. If you are finding it tricky to keep your moral up, take a look at this list of tips to help improve your mental wellbeing.
Policy
Changing Policies to Increase Funding for Community Health and Development Initiatives
Courtesy of: The Community ToolBox
Learn about advocating to change policies to standardize and increase funding and other resources for your organization and health and development initiatives.
Population, Health, and Environment Approaches Enhance Youth Leadership and Development
Courtesy of: Population Reference Bureau
This brief provides recommendations for policymakers, advocates, and organizations interested in youth and PHE to improve project design, foster youth development, and invest in monitoring and evaluating the benefits of PHE integration for youth.
Using Tax Incentives to Support Community Health and Development
Courtesy of: The Community ToolBox
Tax incentives are one way to encourage developers, businesses, and private citizens to make investments that benefit the community. By helping people to get part of their money back, in the form of tax relief of various kinds, they make it easier to spend money on or contribute to socially responsible projects. Get access to a checklist to move forward as well as a PowerPoint presentation with more details.
Reproductive Rights
Courtesy of: YouthPower Learning and Evaluation
This webinar, focused on HIV/AIDS and sexual reproductive health, builds upon sector-specific analysis from the recently released Systematic Review of Positive Youth Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Maternal Health Vision for Action
Courtesy of: USAID
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is working with the global community to End Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM). The USAID Maternal Health Vision for Action outlines how USAID will help achieve a maternal mortality rate of fewer than 50 deaths per 100,000 live births.
Capacity and Consent: Empowering Adolescents to Exercise their Reproductive Rights
Courtesy of: Center for Reproductive Rights
This publication sets forth the barriers adolescents face in realizing their sexual and reproductive health and rights, discusses recent critical developments in the human rights framework underpinning these rights, and proposes a way forward for guaranteeing all adolescents the full exercise of their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Wellness
Five Ways to Improve Health and Well-being for All
Courtesy of: World Economic Forum, Matthieu Ricard
Improving well-being is a key goal for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here are five steps to improve personal well-being, societal cohesion and greater cooperation with our future.
Kenya: Advocating for Change for Adolescents’ Health and Well-being
Courtesy of: World Health Organization, Michael Asudi
This toolkit offers step-by-step guidance on policy environment analysis, linking global commitments to national processes; development of an advocacy roadmap; and monitoring and evaluation.
The Global Youth Wellbeing Index
Courtesy of: International Youth Foundation
With data gathered from international sources and a direct survey of young people globally, the Index offers decision-makers a way of identifying and understanding opportunities for critical youth investments.
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