Brook | Brook Advisory Service. Contraception and pregnancy counselling service for young people (now known in Scotland as Caledonia Youth) |
c:card | Condom card - a system giving young people free access to condoms on presentation of a card |
EWRASAC | Edinburgh Women's Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (formerly Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre) |
EYSIP | Edinburgh Youth Social Inclusion Partnership |
GP | General practitioner - a local family doctor |
GU | Genitourinary |
GUM | Genitourinary Medicine. Clinics dealing with STIs are commonly known by the shorthand of GUM Clinics |
HEBS | Health Education Board for Scotland. Government-funded health improvement agency, now known as NHS Health Scotland |
HOT | Health Opportunities Team (host organisation for component project J, Young Men's Sexual Health) |
LGBT | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. LGBT Scotland - an organisation working for young people in these categories (formerly known as Stonewall Youth) |
LH | Lothian Health (managing agency for Healthy Respect) |
LHCC | Local Health Care Co-operative. These are area groupings within which GPs, practice nurses, health visitors and other practitioners are based with the aim of organising joined up services. |
LPCNT | Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust |
LUHNT | Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust |
MYPAS | Midlothian Young People's Advisory Service |
NGOs | Non-Governmental Organisations |
Partners | The participating organisations (statutory and voluntary) which hosted the Healthy Respect component projects were designated as 'partners' |
PHACE | Promoting Health and Challenging Exclusion |
PSE | Personal and Social Education, a segment of the curriculum in which sexual health education is often lodged |
PTKs | Postal testing kits (for chlamydia) |
SCRO | Scottish Criminal Record Office. Agency which checks the credentials and criminal record of anyone wanting to work in proximity with children and young people |
SHARE | Sexual Health and Relationship Education |
SIP | Social Inclusion Partnership, an organisation funded on a temporary basis by government |
STIs | Sexually transmitted infections (formerly often known as STDs) |
Stonewall | Now known as LGBT Youth |
WHEC | Wester Hailes Education Centre |
WLDAS | West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service |