Other services for young people
We can help find the right service for you. We can tell you about other services or contact them for you if you'd like is to.
Here are some other local and national services that help young people stay healthy...
Local services
- Streetwise Young People's Project: advice, sexual health, guidance and counselling for young people aged 13-25 years old living in the North East.
- New Croft Centre: sexual health services including contraception, STI testing.
- D'n'A: drug and alcohol advice service for young people aged under 19 years old living in Newcastle.
- MESMAC: community support service for gay and bisexual men. Website includes local support services for LGBT people living in the North East.
- Chlamydia Screening Programme: sexual health information for young people in the North East.
National services
- Drinkline: confidential information and advice about drinking. Tel: 0800 917 8282. Calls from landlines are free, 24/7.
- Down Your Drink: an online self-help programme for anyone worried about their drinking; confidential, free and accessible 24 hours a day.
- FRANK: confidential phone line - Talk to FRANK 0800 77 66 00 - trained advisors available 24/7. Text questions to 82111.
- Know Cannabis: information and self-help quiz for people to check out their cannabis use, its impact on their life and how to make changes.
- BEAT (Beat Eating Disorders: leading UK charity for people with eating disorders and their families. Adult helpline 0845 634 1414, youth helpline 0845 634 7650 (see website for opening hours); Text service: 07786 201820; online 1-2-1 chat; e-mail: fyp@b-eat.co.uk
- Connexions Direct (national); local : information and advice for young people aged 13-19 on a wide range of issues. Tel: 080 800 13 2 19 available every day 8am-2am. Also have text service and online advisers. Local Connexions office: 2 Eldon Court, Percy Street, Newcastle NE1 7YB. Tel: 0191 490 1717.
- The Site: information and advice for young people on a range of issues (sex and relationships, drugs, alcohol, law, employment and careers etc.)
- Condom Essential Wear: information about sexual health including local service search. Also have free and confidential sexual health line free Tel: 0800 567 123 24/7.
- Brook: free and confidential sexual health advice and contraception for under 25s. Ask Brook helpline: 0808 802 1234 (Mon-Fri 9:00am-7:00pm)