Key resources

• Profile offline (stats) dates 2008-9

Latest items:

• Free posters avilable, promoting websites where young people can find information
  You can order your set from Carol Smith (Information Co-ordinator) by emailing carolsmith@cfbt.com

Find it!

• Your Local Youth Centre
• Your Local Connexions Centre
• Oxfordshire Services Directory

Opportunities, Careers information, etc.

• Weekly Connexions Opportunity Lists
  Jobs, placements, apprenticeships
• The Oxfordshire 14-19 Prospectus
  (lists courses available locally)
• e-clips
  (careers information online)
• Career Companion
  (more careers information online)

Dare to Ask? Online

Dare to Ask? Online has been developed by CfBT Education Trust from the paper-based evaluation toolkit Dare to Ask? The advantages of this approach are:

• Students can complete the questionnaires quickly online.
• Each school has a unique password that allows them to access their own reports according to various criteria, enabling comparisons to be made e.g between male and female responses. Calculations are carried out automatically, showing numerical and percentage responses to each question.
• We can provide, on request and with suitable notice, aggregated reports across an area, for example a 14-19 consortium area or across the whole county. This can show trends in student career learning and identify areas for priority work.

Download the Dare to Ask Online user guide for Oxfordshire

Contact details:
Careers Education Development
Connexions Centre
62 Stert St
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 3UQ

01235 536780
ebarnes@cfbt.com
anewton@cfbt.com

Survival Guide for Young People

The Young People's Survival Guide for Oxfordshire, is a handy, pocket-sized book stuffed full of information, advice and guidance about just about everything of interest to a young person in Oxfordshire.

The new edition for 2007 has just come out, but if you're waiting for your copy (it's given out free to all Year 11 students at school) you can browse the Survival Guide online right here on Spired.com.

It has information about education, free time, health, housing, the law, money and relationships, or you can use the full list to jump straight to what you're concerned about.

• The Survival Guide

Research and reports by Oxfordshire Youth Support Services

Banbury Detached Team's 2004 report compiled the opinions of 540 youth people (10% of the young population of Banbury) as regards drug use and attitudes to drugs in the area. Topics covered included use of illegal drugs, alcohol, tobacco and steroids, first experiences, reasons for using/misusing drugs and attitudes towards drug-taking and people who misuse drugs. Special thanks to Janet Cullimore and the Blessed George Napier School.

• Drugs Research with Young People in Banbury.

Resources for working with young people with Drugs and Substance misuse issues

There are various groups and individuals who can provide specialist support around Drugs and Substance Misuse.

DAAT (Oxfordshire Drugs and Alcohol Action Team) can inform you about local resources and services, and provide information.

• www.oxfordshiredaat.org

Evolve is a coutywide Young Person's Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service, providing a confidential treatment service for 10-18 year olds with complex and serious substance misuse issues in Oxfordshire. Project workers will see young people in a range of venues.

• www.evolveoxon.co.uk