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 what is 'healthy respect'?
 Healthy Respect is hosted by NHS Lothian, and is one of four National Health Demonstration projects outlined in the Government's White Paper 'Towards a Healthier Scotland' (1999). Healthy Respect was set up to look at ways of supporting young people in making positive choices about relationships, sexual health and well-being, with a vision to demonstrate how working with young people from specific areas of Lothian, using a multi-faceted approach, can enable them to form and develop a healthy respect and a positive attitude to their own sexuality and that of others.
The Healthy Respect project began in 2001 and continued through to 2004 (known as Phase 1). Following an interim year for planning (2004), a further three years funding was provided, taking the work up to March 2008 (known as Phase 2). During this second phase and after 2008, appropriate elements of work and practice will be made available for integration both locally and nationally.
Phase 2 has focussed on the development of positive health and respectful relationships among young people under the age of 18. Healthy Respect works closely with young people, but also with parents, carers, significant adults and professionals who work with them, including organisations from both statutory and voluntary sectors.
Healthy Respect has a clear values base, and these can be summarised as: respect, responsibility, inclusiveness and partnership.
www.healthy-respect.co.uk
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