Teenage Trauma? Pocket-Sized Help At Hand

A new guide aimed at helping young East Clevelanders through those often turbulent teenage years will hit the streets in the spring.

The Pocket Guide to Services for young people in Redcar & Cleveland offers advice on a range of topics from drugs to drinking and careers to leaving care. It also contains useful contact numbers for local, regional and national organisations, and details of relevant helplines and websites.

Commissioned by Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council’s Teenage Pregnancy Partnership, the funky 100 page guide was produced by Durham based Clever Clogs Publishing which has produced guides for other north east authorities, including Stockton Borough Council, Darlington, Hartlepool & Durham.

The Pocket Guide will be available free of charge to all Year 10 students, young people’s groups and youth workers and author Heather Alabaster hopes it will be as well received as its predecessors:

“We’ve had some extremely positive feedback from professionals who work with young people and from youngsters themselves about our other guides. The general consensus is that we’ve addressed issues which are important to teenagers in an easily accessible format. We believe we’ve struck the right balance and have made it educational without being patronising”.

Julie Corner, Redcar & Cleveland’s Teenage Pregnancy Coordinator added: “This service is totally committed to offering support and advice to teenage parents across the borough and we welcome this guide. We believe it will be an invaluable tool for young people and those working with them”.

For more information: Heather Alabaster, Clever Clogs, tel. 0191-386 5918, info@cleverclogspublishing.co.uk
Or Julie Corner, Teenage Pregnancy Coordinator, tel. 01642 479324

Clever Clogs Press, 2 February, 2005