The CluedUp programme has been developed by Living Well Youth Services using a co-design process that truly involves young people by putting them together with professionals right at the heart of the development process. This is an innovative approach to designing new health services so that they truly involve and meet the needs of services users and professionals, the very people who are experiencing them. As part of this process Living Well worked in close collaboration with a co-design team made up of key stakeholders, including: young women, sexual health experts, positive psychologists, anthropologists, social innovators, third sector organisations, NHS practitioners and funders.

Living Well support and empower people to make informed decisions about their well-being and quality of life through a series of innovative programmes. All of Living Well’s services are holistic in nature and designed to increase participation and confidence, improve decision-making abilities, and raise awareness of choices.

Mary Beattie has been employed by Living Well to oversee the development and delivery of the project. Mary has worked within organisations who aim to improve the sexual health of  young people for ten years. She has worked for Brook; directing the young peoples services and as outreach educator and trainer in various locations in the UK, most recently managing there Luton office. Currently Mary sits both within Public Health in City and Hackney and as an ‘R U Really Ready?’ trainer. Her vision for young people is to have excellent SRE and access to supportive services, alongside having the internal resource needed to feel empowered, able to resist pressure and enjoy good sexual health when they choose to. Mary will be leading the content design of this programme, guided by dissemination from the co-design events.

Agency are working as learning partners with Living Well on this piece of work. Agency are passionate about creating value and sustaining social innovation initiatives to ensure that they are relevant, connect in to existing work, influential, transformative and sustainable. As learning partner Agency have put in place a co-design approach for the programme, as well as identifying lines of enquiry for a meaningful evaluation of the work, that can demonstrate impact and capture narratives for legacy and dissemination.

The CluedUp project has been funded by the London Sexual Health Programme as part of its Improving Access to Contraception Initiative.