Careers
The
main shop for Connexions is in Sankey Street in Warrington (01925 416611). Within
each school there is also a Personal Adviser. If you are interested in following
a certain career and you need some information contact any of the Connexions
team.
Teenage issues at school
Popular
groups picking on the unpopular ones. Eg: Verbal, physical abuse, discrimination
in any form or just simply giving evil looks. Rachel is a fifteen year old who
has just started a new school. She is not fitting in very well and is getting
picked on. She’s got no friends and no-one to turn to, what should she do?
Solution– She could talk to a teacher or her parents.
Drugs
Peter
is a 15 year old who smokes cannabis regularly and occasionally takes speed. He
doesn’t see anything wrong with this and thinks its a laugh. He best friend
Clive is concerned about him. What could he do to help him?
Clive could: -
Pick up leaflets from the Youth Advice Shop, phone the National Drugs Helpline for advice (0800 77 66 00). Have a chat to Peter about the dangers of drugs.
Offer the PhaZe telephone number to Peter (080 800 13219).
(But ultimately only Peter can choose to take up support and advice.)
