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Connexionshttp://www.connexions-direct.com
Are you 13-19 years old? Connexions direct can offer you all the information and advice you need to make the decisions and choices in your life e.g. careers, health, employment, housing, learning etc. Most service can be accessed at local level so contact them to find out where your local centre is. Teens Unitewww.teensunitefightingcancer.org
Teens Unite Fighting Cancer is dedicated to improving the lives of young people aged between 13-24 with life limiting illnesses.
Teenage Cancer Trust
Teenage Cancer Trust is a charity devoted to improving the lives of teenagers and young adults with cancer. Jimmy Teens
A site where teenagers and young adults share their experiences of cancer creatively. jimmyteenstv provides a forum for young people to share their thoughts and experiences about being a teenager with cancer by giving them an opportunity to make short films. These are posted on the site and will hopefully inspire you to make a film of your own. Wallace Cancer Care
Wallace Cancer Care provides a Drop-in Centre at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and an Off-site Centre nearby which provide practical, psychological, and emotional support free of charge to those living with cancer. Wallace Cancer Care provides a wide range of cancer support services and programme's to serve the informational, social, psychological and emotional needs of men and women living with cancer, and those who care for them. Wallace Cancer Care serves all those living with cancer, men and women, old and young, patients or carers. You don’t have to be a patient at Addenbrooke’s to use the services of Wallace Cancer Care. No referral is required to use any of the services of Wallace Cancer Care. Please browse the site to see what Wallace Cancer Care can offer you and either visit the Drop-in Centre in the concourse of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, or phone or email for more information or to make a booking for one of our services. Clic Sargent
CLIC Sargent: who we are and what we doCLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity, offering support, information and advice to children and young people aged 0-25 with a cancer diagnosis, and their families. CLIC Sargent workers offer social, emotional and practical support, which can include: Emotional support: support for you and family as you need it. We can give an opportunity to talk in confidence about anything, from how you’re feeling to just having a chat, or finding out the answers to questions you don’t want to ask a medic! We also try to find you local services like hospices that might be able to help you or your family and friends. Practical support: information and advice on the practical stuff which is affected by your treatment, like education or work, holiday insurance, parking at the hospital and loads more. Financial support: we can help you and your family in applying for benefits, and give info on other sources of financial aid such as charity grants. Benefits for teenagers and young people can be very complicated, so it’s probably a good idea to let us help with this! You can also speak to the CLIC Sargent benefit advisor free on Tuesdays and Fridays on 0800 1970068. Social support: it can be really good to meet others who have had a similar experience to you, so if you’re aged 14-24 you will be invited to join in CLIC Sargent trips and activities, and you can come along up to five years after you finish treatment (or ‘til you get too old!) Our trips are always really good fun, and lately we have been ice skating, bowling, to the TCT gigs at the Albert Hall, go-karting and quad biking and loads more. So to have fun, try new things and meet some cool people, make sure you sign up for trips with the leaflet in your welcome pack. Information: when you first meet your CLIC Sargent worker, you will be given a welcome pack with a huge load of information in it on everything from benefits to side effects, body image to useful websites, and holidays and special days to good questions to ask your doctor. You can have extra copies for friends or family if you want them. The CLIC Sargent team have got tons of other booklets and leaflets on all kinds of issues around young people and cancer, so if there’s something you’re looking for, ask us or have a look at www.clicsargent.org/publications to see a list of the booklets CLIC Sargent produce. The Addenbrooke’s CLIC Sargent TeamThe CLIC Sargent team office is on the edge of the Addenbrooke’s site. All team members can be reached by phone (there is an answer phone when no one is available), fax, post, or email: Phone: 01223 714439 There is also a free CLIC Sargent helpline, staffed Monday to Friday 9-5, for you, your family and friends: Phone: 0800 1970068
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