Help & Advice

Most young people have problems at sometime or another. It can be a problem you cope with easily, or one where you get help from friends, family or other people you may know, but sometimes it can be hard to talk to someone you know and your problem may not be an easy one.

So where might you turn for help?

The Diocesan Youth Forum did some major research around these issues and produced some youth information to be displayed around every church in the diocese.

These look like this:

All such help lines/web links are listed below, don’t do nothing, do something if something is worrying you. 

General Help and Advice

Childline                   24 national help line

0800 1111                www.childline.org.uk

Teens in Crisis          A Christian based counselling service

01594 544281           www.teensincrisis.org.uk

Youth Line                A local help line staffed by trained by young people

0800 0961425

Grapevine                 Local advice shops for Gloucestershire

Project 97                 Local advice for young people in South

01454 862229           Gloucestershire

Specific Helplines

Bullying

Childline                            0800 1111          www.childline.org.uk

Drugs

Frank                                0800 776600

Smoking

NHS helpline                      0800 1690169

Alchohol

Drinkline                            0800 9178282

Sexual Health

Sexual Health direct           08453 101334

Eating Disorders/Self harm

Anorexia, Bulimia Care       01462 423351

General WellBeing

NHS Direct                         0845 4647