Staying Positive

"Being a teenager isn’t easy. Being a teenager with a long-term health condition is even harder."

The Staying Positive programme is run by young people for young people. Workshops take place on Saturdays and Sundays and are for twelve to eighteen year-olds. They're run by people with long-term conditions who are aged between fourteen and twenty-five. For a young person, a Staying Positive workshop provides opportunities to share experiences and learn skills in areas such as how medication can affect a young person's social life, how to make exercise fun, how to keep up with school work and increase career prospects, what to do when feeling down and how to cope with the problems of relationships. The last part of the workshop is an activity that has nothing to do with health, for example learning to play African drums!

Find out more at Staying Positive.