WSLHD Youth Health Annual Report

Youth Health, WSLHD is committed to ensuring young people aged 12-24 years have the best opportunity to achieve their full potential, by promoting and improving health and wellbeing.

Strategic priorities of Youth Health for 2022 and beyond include:

Developing and implementing the WSLHD Young People’s Health Strategy, which will identify our LHDs priorities for improving the health, wellbeing, and access to healthcare among young people across our district. This document will be based on the specific needs and priorities of local young people and the state-wide priorities articulated in the NSW Health Youth Health Framework 2017-2024. Growing the influence and impact of the WSLHD Youth Council, recognising their importance as central partners in improving youth health outcomes. Continuing to partner with health services to ensure young people are engaged and have a voice in health service design, delivery and improvement. Continuing to partner and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to build trusting collaborative relationships with young people. This will enhance the assessment of young people’s need, provision of holistic care to young people and help young people navigate and access other parts of the health and community system. Strengthening the processes and systems that support young people with a chronic illness and/ or disability transitioning from paediatric to adult care settings, to ensure they receive effective and appropriate care, are supported to manage their care and can be as independent as possible.

There is real opportunity to focus on improving access to the right health care at the right time for young people who are members of priority populations.

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS

REFUGEES OR NEWLY ARRIVED MIGRANTS

YOUNG CARERS

YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE PREGNANT AND/OR PARENTING

IDENTIFY AS SEXUALLY AND/OR GENDER DIVERSE

HAVE A CHRONIC OR COMPLEX HEALTH CONDITION

HAVE EXPERIENCED FAMILY, INTIMATE PARTNER OR PEER VIOLENCE

HAVE A DISABILITY (PHYSICAL OR INTELLECTUAL)

HOMELESS OR AT RISK OF EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS