Blackburn with Darwen Resources

Sexual Health & Risk Taking Board Game Resource is now available to be purchased. 

Blackburn with Darwen Healthy Living successfully applied for funding to run a youth health project in the Whitebirk and Shadsworth area of Blackburn. Both these wards are ranked 184 most deprived in England, they also have the highest rates of teenage pregnancies, significantly worst that the national average and have a health deprivation and disability score of 145 out of 32,482 wards in England. The project was led by BwD Healthy Living who worked in partnership with Brook and Blackburn with Darwen Young People Service to work with N.E.E.T (not in education, employment or training) young people on a project which focused on issues around sexual health. Alongside this we also worked with Connexions in order to engage N.E.E.T young people who lived in the Shadsworth area.

This game has been designed to inform young people that there are consequences to the decisions they make, whether it be around unprotected sex, drinking and taking drugs, or anti-social behaviour. The game challenges the young people into making choices on how they would react to different
situations; depending on the answer they give they face a different consequence. We worked on the design of the board game for several weeks focusing on how the game would be played, and what elements we wanted to incorporate into the game in order to make it young people friendly. We looked at the style, the playability, the duration the game should be played for, the number of players, but most importantly we wanted to introduce the element of competition into the game so there would be an overall winner. Some of the other games the young people looked at had no competitiveness, so there was no end to the game which the young people thought was ‘boring’ and eventually tired of playing the game.

The sexual health board game was recently shorlisted for Sexual Health Project of the year 2009 for the National Brook Awards.

The price for the education resource is £69.99 + postage and packing

For more information about purchasing the resource please contact info@bwdhealthyliving.co.uk or ring 01254 292650 or download the PDF