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Young Peoples' Centre - Easington
The Young Peoples’ Centre offers of a range of services listed below to offer the young people in the area a wide ranging and comprehensive facility to meet their needs in a single location.

Services Included Within the Centre

OutThere
OutThere is a peer education drugs project which works with young people in one to one and group settings. The project teaches young people the facts about drug and alcohol issues, dispelling street myths. Once trained the young people are asked to pass on safe messages to their friends and within their communities in order to reduce the harm caused by drug use.

Family Link
Assessing the needs of carers of drug or alcohol users, offering a friendly chat and assistance to access: -
  • Information and advice
  • Advocacy
  • Coping strategies
  • Peer support meetings
  • Conflict management
  • Training and education
XS
Provides a specialist assessment and care plan relating to substance use. We do this by responding speedily, effectively and offering a safe place to talk things through. Access to a range of services including:-
  • Harm minimisation
  • One to one therapeutic support
  • Prescribing services
  • Outreach support
  • Family support
  • Drug education
  • Life skills
  • Relapse prevention
  • Motivational interviewing
Coordinating the provision of care by other agencies and professionals.

Empower-U
A mentoring project offering 1-1 and group support for young people. Through pairing with a mentor, young people are offered:-
  • Friendship & support
  • Help to organise leisure time
  • Information & advice
  • Activities
  • Regular contact at convenient times
The project also offers young people training to OCN Level 2 in Mentoring to enable young people to help others in need.

Contraception & Sexual Health Services For Under 25’s (Contraception Clinic, Chlamydia Screening Clinic and GUM Clinic (sexual health) from 2007
  • Free & confidential
  • Friendly and welcoming service
  • Contraception
  • Emergency contraception
  • Free condoms
  • Advice & support
  • Chlamydia screening
  • Pregnancy testing
  • STI tests and treatment available from 2007
What Else Is Going On?
The Centre also offers other services which include:-
  • Use of PCs with Internet access
  • Shower and washing machine
  • A fully equipped kitchen
  • A ‘chill out’ room
  • Advice on accommodation
  • Advice on housing benefit
Young people from across a range of projects regularly meet to talk about and help decide what’s being offered at the Centre and look at ways of adding to the services being provided.

Download
Young Persons' Centre Postcard [168kb]
Young Persons' Centre Leaflet [316kb]

Contact
4th Floor, Ridgemount House, Bede Way, Peterlee, Co Durham, SR8 1EA
Tel: 0191 - 569 1032
Fax: 0191 - 569 1027