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Looking for a job? Opportunities for young people are updated weekly on the Oxfordshire Connexions pages

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New conservation volunteering scheme for young people in Bicester

Want to help decide who gets funding for what projects? Here's how!

Valentines Day - Don't get more than you bargained for

You Know YouIt's february, and romance is in the air!

Valentines Day is coming up and the local PCT (Primary Health Care Trust) has teamed up with the local Youth Service to make some very special Valentine's day Posters. Click on the links below to download your own copies:

Get signed up for your sexual safety

Not sure about condom use? Anxious about sex? Accessing the "Safety Card" training gives you the chance to discuss anxieties with trained health and youthwork professionals, while learning all about safer sex and condom use.

You can get a Safety Card from various locations across Oxfordshire, including Bodyzones, Youth Centres, Connexions Centres and more.

Worried about your sexual health?

Are you worried about your sexual health? You should be.

Recent Health Protection Agency statistics show that HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates among under 24-year-olds have been increasing for the past 10 years and now represent 5% of all new cases.

Think you know you?

What do you know about relationships and sex?  A little bit?  Not as much as you would like to?  THT is currently offering young people the chance to change they learn about relationships and sex. Young people in the UK have the worst sexual health in Europe; could you change that?

 

 

*Sex and Relationship education

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