Date
16 March 2024

Provide access to responsive, youth-friendly health care services

Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Address immediate environmental, physical and social needs’

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Review pathways to support

Review pathways to support

Consider setting up onsite health care services.

Partner with outside youth agencies such as your local Youth One Stop Shop

Consider opportunities that can be provided for students to access:

  • on-site health clinics
  • on-site nurse consultations
  • on-site school counsellors
  • youth workers
  • health information
  • referral pathways for medical care
  • access to LGBTQIA+ youth support groups.

Utilise the guidance team

Utilise the guidance team

School counsellors can offer critical and objective support.

Ensure they have sufficient capacity to rtespond to the needs of staff, parents, and students.

Useful resources

Useful resources

Website

The I'm Local Project

The I’m Local Project aims to help queer & gender diverse youth all over Aotearoa to feel valued, recognised and supported in their local communities. The website includes info about the a-z of being queer & gender diverse, as well as a region-by-region map of all the queer and gender diverse support groups for young people in Aotearoa.

Publisher: RainbowYOUTH

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Website

The health and wellbeing of transgender high school students: Results from the New Zealand adolescent health survey (Youth’12)

Read time: 29 min

This report documents the results of the first nationally representative survey on the health and wellbeing of students who identify as being transgender.

Publisher: Journal of Adolescent Health

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Next steps

More suggestions for implementing the strategy “Address immediate environmental, physical and social needs”:

Return to the guide “Supporting LGBTIQA+ students”

Guide to Index of the guide: LGBTIQA+ students

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