Youth Information!

Throughout our lives we face various changes, these come at various age milestones, perhaps the most prodominent of these is the process of becoming a young adult. Such changes effect various personal areas of teenage life, and can result in facing various challenges, with the ever present focus of the government on the health and well being of young people, it has become clear that we often feel strain in five areas: smoking, drugs and alcohol, relationships, safety and the law, money and housing and employment.

Here are some helpful links if you are dealing with these problems at any time in your young life:

Health and Wellbeing

Smoking, Drugs and Alcohol

Here are some more general pages which can be useful to you!

This site is very factual on many different aspects of teenage lives!

http://www.nya.org.uk/youthinformation-com

This website is very informative on teenage issues and things they will need to know in the future!

http://www.connexions-direct.com/index.cfm

This site is about help with school problems!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/surgery/advice/

Help's you with general around the clock problems!

http://www.childline.org.uk/explore/Pages/Explore.aspx

A guide to things that happen to people in the real world

http://www.thesite.org

Information for 11 to 26 year olds

http://www.youngscot.org/

A place to go for all your public services all in one site!

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/YoungPeople/index.htm

A site for 12 to 15 year olds to go for you to check out your life and to see how you are getting on!

http://www.teenlifecheck.co.uk/

Do you want some help and advice? Check out http://www.childline.org.uk/talk/Pages/Talk.aspx