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organisations

Connexions Direct
Tel: 0808 001 3219 (every day 8am-2am)
Text: 07766 413 219
Minicom: 08000 968 336
Website: www.connexions-direct.com
Offers quick information and advice on issues relating to health, housing, relationships, and much more. For anyone aged 13-19; email and web chat also available.

Get Connected
Tel: 0808 808 4994 (every day 1pm-11pm)
E-mail: help@getconnected.org.uk
Website: www.getconnected.org
E-mail and telephone helpline that finds young people the best help, whatever the problem, wherever they are in the UK. Note that it's free to call from all landlines and 99% of mobile phones. The number shouldn't appear on your bill if you're not being charged.

Youth Access
1-2 Taylors Yard
67 Alderbrook Road
London LE5 3GJ
Tel: 020 8772 9900
E-mail: admin@youthaccess.org.uk
Website: www.youthaccess.org.uk
Provides details of, and referrals to, local youth agencies and counselling services for young people aged between 14 and 25, but unable to offer advice directly.

Youth2Youth (Y2Y)
Helpline: 020 8896 3675 (Mon and Thurs 6.30pm-9.30pm)
Website: www.youth2youth.co.uk
Unique helpline service run by young people for young people. The staff are all aged 16 to 21 and are specially trained. There is also a chat room and online e-mail.

websites

Go Ask Alice – Relationships
www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/Cat8.html
Questions and answers on a wide range of relationship issues.

Teen Today
www.teentoday.co.uk/guides/
Great site for teenagers with loads of useful stuff, a chat room and advice centre.

There4me
www.There4me.com
Confidential online advice on anything that's worrying any 12-16 year old, including 'real time' talk with an adviser, a message board and a private e-mail inbox.

Young Minds
www.youngminds.org.uk
Advice and information on a range of mental health issues such as depression.

reading

	Staying Together: From Crisis to Deeper Commitment by Susan Quilliam (Vermilion, 2001) This guide offers advice on coming to terms with a failing relationship, assessing whether it is worth saving, and how to overcome relationship difficulties. Get this book

	When Good Men Behave Badly: Change Your Behaviour, Change Your Relationship by David Wexler (New Harbinger Publications, 2004) The premise of this book is that good, well-intentioned men can, in times of stress and emotional conflict, act in destructive ways that don't reflect their true character. Get this book

	The New Couple: The 10 New Laws of Love by Maurice Taylor and Seana McGee (HarperCollins, 2004) This book introduces ten essential 'laws' based on self-confidence and equality to help you find intimacy, passion and enjoyment in your relationship. Get this book

(October 2005)

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