'Teenage Advice Centre, Teenage Information Centre'

If you want/ need support around any issues you have in your life or want to ask questions but don't know who to ask then TACTIC is the place to go. The Centre has a wide range of leaflets covering subjects that relates to being a young person, so if you don’t want to ask, you can just pick one up.  You can also sit and relax, meet new people and chat to your mates. The centre has 3 PC’s that are connected to the internet so you can play games, check emails or do research for homework. Everything about TACTIC is FREE  (except fizzy drinks and snacks)  - including TEA AND COFFEE!  

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Some of the issues TACTIC can support you with:

•      Sexual Health Issues
•      School, College and University
•      Employment
•      Problems with your own or someone else's drug use 
•      Housing/ Homelessness
•      Finance
•      Identity
•      Relationships

Organisations available at the TACTIC centre:

•      4YP (Education and Employment Service) 
•      Brook (sexual health agency)
•      Talk Time (Relate Counselling service)
•      PLAN B (Drugs awareness agency)
•      Early Intervention Team
•      Leighton Linslade Homeless service
•      Other agencies when needed

Confidentiality policy

Unless you give us your permission, nothing you tell us will be passed onto

• Parents
  
• Your doctor
• Teachers
  
• Or anyone outside The TACTIC Centre 
  
  Except

  In extreme circumstances where we may have to tell someone, e.g. where the health, safety and welfare of yourself or someone else would otherwise be at serious risk. If this happens we will always discuss the matter with you first.

17 Hockliffe Street

Leighton Buzzard

Beds

LU7 1EZ

Telephone: 01525 373838

Email: tactic@leightonlinslade-tc.gov.uk

Opening times:

Mon: 15:00 - 18:00 hrs

Tues: 15:00 - 18:00 hrs

Wed: 15:00 - 18:00 hrs

Thurs: 15:00 - 19:00 hrs

Fri: 15:00 - 18:00 hrs

Sat: (Temporarily closed until further notice)

Useful links

http://www.13-19central.co.uk/ - the new website for IYS/Connexions in Central Bedfordshire. 

http://www.brook.org.uk/ - confidential advice for under 25's

http://www.under-cover.org.uk/ - Undercover is Bedfordshire's Sexual Health website