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Resources
Branding and design materials
Logos, blank leaflets/posters, word and powerpoint blanks and similar can all be found on the Branding page.
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Opportunities, Careers information, etc.
- Weekly Connexions Opportunity Lists
Jobs, placements, apprenticeships - The Oxfordshire 14-19 Prospectus
(lists courses available locally) - e-clips
(careers information online) - Career Companion
(more careers information online)
Young People with LDD
You can download copies of the Joint Agency Transition Protocol for Young People with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities aged 14–25 from here, in your preferred format.
Survival Guide for Young People
The Young People's Survival Guide for Oxfordshire, is a handy, pocket-sized book stuffed full of information, advice and guidance about just about everything of interest to a young person in Oxfordshire.
The new edition for 2009 has just come out, but if you're waiting for your copy (it's given out free to all Year 11 students at school) you can browse the Survival Guide online right here on Spired.com.
It has information about education, free time, health, housing, the law, money and relationships, or you can use the full list to jump straight to what you're concerned about.
Research and reports by Oxfordshire Youth Support Services
Banbury Detached Team's 2004 report compiled the opinions of 540 youth people (10% of the young population of Banbury) as regards drug use and attitudes to drugs in the area. Topics covered included use of illegal drugs, alcohol, tobacco and steroids, first experiences, reasons for using/misusing drugs and attitudes towards drug-taking and people who misuse drugs. Special thanks to Janet Cullimore and the Blessed George Napier School.
Resources for working with young people with Drugs and Substance misuse issues
There are various groups and individuals who can provide specialist support around Drugs and Substance Misuse.
DAAT (Oxfordshire Drugs and Alcohol Action Team) can inform you about local resources and services, and provide information.
Evolve is a countywide Young Person's Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service, providing a confidential treatment service for 10-18 year olds with complex and serious substance misuse issues in Oxfordshire. Project workers will see young people in a range of venues.
The What if Project
The What If project has been designed by young mums for young people, to challenge their attitudes about alcohol, drugs, sexual health, having a baby and young mums.
- Helps young people think about key decisions in their lives
- Project runs for 2 hours a week for 6 weeks and works with 6 young people at one time
- Staffed by 2 youth workers and up to 2 young parents
- Includes an opportunity to have a baby simulator for a weekend.
To find out more visit the What if Project's website.
Posters, leaflets and activities for your centre or project
There is support available to help you get hold of information resources for your centre or project.
Karin Cook, the Oxfordshire Youth Information Worker, sends out a monthly e-info bulletin which contains links to sources of good information materials, as well as reminders about key dates in the year, weeks of action and campaigns.
You can find lists of organisations and other good sources for information resources for young people in the Information Resources Roundup.
You can also find posters, leaflets and activities on Spired.com.
- Safer Surfers Guide
A3 poster suitable for displaying beside young person accessible computers - Loves me, loves me not
Leaflet about domestic violence, folds to credit card size - 50 Ways to say "I love you" (without having sex)
Safer sex activity, includes making a poster - Healthy Eating Guide
Includes some simple-to-make recipes - Street Smart
Personal Safety presentation for young people - Think B4 You Drink
Alcohol and safer drinking activity, includes a quiz - Why Me? a guide to surviving bullying
Leaflet about what you can do about bullying - Connexions Resources
This page contains links to all of the main Connexions publications as well as worksheets on: - Opportunities sheets
Links to print-out sheets of opportunities (apprenticeships, jobs, voluntary and personal development, courses, work-based training and more) in Oxfordshire. Lists for different areas in Oxfordshire updated weekly. - Pharmacists which offer Emergency Hormonal Contraception in Oxfordshire (PDF)
- Pharmacists which offer Emergency Hormonal contraception in Oxfordshire (Word)
Print-out lists of chemists in Oxfordshire which offer Emergency Hormonal Contraception (also called the Morning After Pill) to young women under 18 free of charge, including opening times. - Giving up smoking
Guide written with a smoking cessation group - The Funked up Book of Drugs
PDF of a credit card sized booklet about the effects of drugs
Need more information?
- NYA The National Youth Agency's website
- www.everychildmatters.gov.uk for Every Child Matters - Change For Children
- www.dfes.gov.uk/youngpeople DFES working with young people
