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organisations

ChildLine
Freepost NATN1111
London E1 6BR
Helpline: 0800 1111 (free 24 hours)
Tel: 020 7650 3200
Textphone: 0800 400 222 (Mon-Fri 9.30am–9.30pm; Sat-Sun 9.30am-8pm)
Website: www.childline.org.uk
The website offers information to children and young people with concerns, including a factsheet on how to cope with life in a stepfamily. The Helpline is available to all children and young people in the UK for advice or support on any issue.

Connexions Direct
Tel: 0808 001 3219 (free 8am-2am, every day)
Textphone: 08000 968 336
Mobile Text: 07766 413 219 (for simple info like telephone numbers)
Website: www.connexions-direct.com
Offers quick information and advice on issues relating to health, housing, relationships with family and friends, careers and learning options, money, as well as info on a wide range of activities. For anyone aged 13-19; e-mail and web chat also available.

Get Connected
Helpline: 0808 808 4994 (free 1pm-11pm, every day)
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 most mobile phones. The number shouldn't appear on your bill if you're not being charged.

Youth2Youth (Y2Y)
Helpline: 020 8896 3675 (Mon and Thurs 6.30pm-9.30pm)
E-mail: talk@youth2youth.co.uk
Website: www.youth2youth.co.uk
This is a unique helpline service as it is 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.

websites

Divorce Aid
www.divorceaid.co.uk/child/teenagers.htm
This section of the site is just for teenagers with lots of useful info plus links to all the best websites and a good list of books that may help you if your parents are splitting up.

Family Changes
www.parentlineplus.org.uk/index.php?id=329
Leaflet aimed at young people, giving advice about coping with changes such as divorce, separation, family breakdown and new family members.

It's Not Your Fault
www.itsnotyourfault.org
Site with separate sections for children and teenagers; provides information on the best places to get help or information. There is a useful A-Z of separation/divorce.

My Family's Splitting Up
www.dca.gov.uk/family/divleaf.htm
Online leaflets with helpful information for the over 13's whose family is splitting up. If you are younger than 13, there are other leaflets here for you.

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.

The Site
www.thesite.org
Aims to offer the best guide to life for young adults aged 16-25. There's an online magazine and lots of useful information on issues like divorce and family break up, difficult parents and how to cope with new family units.

reading

	Stepliving for Teens: Getting along with stepparents, parents, and siblings by Joel Block and Susan Bartell (Price Stern Sloan, 2001) In Q&A format, teenagers get honest answers from two psychologists who specialise in teenagers and stepfamilies, but also straight-talking advice from other step-teens. Get this book
	The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson (Corgi, 1993) Jacqueline Wilson doesn't offer instant solutions to children of divorcing parents but chronicles a young girl's journey to the beginning of equilibrium in her new life. Things will never be the way they were, but they'll get better over time. Recommended for ages 9-13. Get this book

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