This qualification will enable learners to provide peer support through an understanding of the individual and social drivers of healthy and unhealthy behaviours as well as signpost local health services. It will also provide knowledge of a health and wellbeing issue relevant to the learner and develop skills to deliver positive health messages.

Learners will take three mandatory units and one optional unit from a choice of seven.

The mandatory units are:

• YHC 1 Health Improvement
• YHC 2 Research Health Improvement Services
• YHC 3 Deliver a Health Improvement Message

The optional units are:

• YHC 4 Understanding Alcohol Misuse
• YHC 5 Encouraging physical activity
• YHC 6 Encouraging a Healthy Weight and Healthy Eating
• YHC 7 Understanding Sexual Health
• YHC 8 Supporting Smoking Cessation
• YHC 9 Understanding the Misuse of Substances
• YHC 10 Understanding Emotional Wellbeing

Units YHC 1 and YHC 4-10 are also available as stand-alone single unit qualifications. These single unit qualifications are not targeted specifically at improving the health of young people but are applicable to all age groups.