The Information Guide
Information for young people in Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire Youth Support Services produce a variety of information materials, including miniguides, information activities and the Young People's Survival Guide for Oxfordshire .
You can read online versions of some of them here.
Latest Additions
 The Young Person's Survival Guide 2009 contains almost 200 pages of crucial contacts, handy information, advice, experience and inspiration. Produced by Oxfordshire Youth Support Services information workers, with the support and input of local young people, it's a pocket-sized lifesaver. If you're in Year 11 at school, you should be receiving your copy before Christmas. If you're having problems getting a copy, try Connexions or your local Young People's Centre. |
Quick Links - Services
- Young Person's Safety Card
Find out about contraception, where to get sexual health advice and free condoms - Bodyzone - Confidential health advice for young people
Confidential health advice in your local youth centre or school. - T2 Drugs Intervention Service
Specialist support for young people misusing drugs in Oxfordshire. - Face 2 Face Counselling Service
Specialist support for young people in crisis in Oxfordshire. - Free Emergency Contraception
Find out where you can get EHC in Oxfordshire - Oxfordshire Youth Mentoring Service
Matches young people with a suitable adult volunteer who can help them set goals, access services, find activities etc.
Quick Links - Guides and Activities
- Smoking: why you do it, and how to give up
Step by step guide produced with a young smoking cessation group in Didcot - Think B4U Drink
Learn about alcohol with this quiz and images from the Allandale centre in Carterton - Street Smart - personal safety for young people
Personal Safety for young people, put together in Wood Farm in Oxford - The Balance of Good Health
A healthy eating guide with recipes - Were you Spiked or are you just drunk?
The risks are the same however it happened. Leaflet produced with young people in Banbury. - Bicester Bodyzone's 12 Days of Christmas
What has your true love left in your stockings? Is it naughty or nice? Look and learn! - 50 ways to say I love you (without having sex)
The classic poster given a local twist - Why Me? A guide to Surviving Bullying
Leaflet created by a group of young people affected by bullying
Further resources
Some of the information in the guide is available as leaflets or other materials. Please email information@spired.com if you are interested in finding out about what's available.
You may link to the online resources, as long as a credit to Oxfordshire County Council Youth Service or Spired.com is included.
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