What is the Survival Guide?

Welcome to the Young People’s Survival Guide, almost 200 pages of useful information for young people. It's updated every year, the current edition (2009) was published in October 2008.

The Survival Guide covers many of the things you need to know about growing up. But it doesn’t tell you what to do. Instead, it spells out your options so that you can make informed decisions. It also lists hundreds of organisations where you can get help, information and support.

The Survival Guide is a book given to Year 11 students in Oxfordshire. This online version contains some of the same information, as well as pages developed especially for the website.

Many young people in Oxfordshire are involved in producing the Survival Guide. They wrote case studies, interviewed their friends, took photographs and advised us on everything from look to contents. If you'd like to be involved in producing next year's Survival Guide, get in touch.

More about the Survival Guide

The Online Survival Guide:

• The pages are listed under seven broad topics, free time, relationships, health, education, training and work, money, law (including rights) and housing
• Each page contains general information, some useful links and key local contacts
• If you're having problems finding the information you want, try looking at the Full List of topics.
• If you still can't find the information you need, you can check out the Frequently Asked Questions list or email a youth information worker.