If you are a young person in South Tyneside we can help you focus on building on your strengths to enable you to be healthy, stay safe and think about a better future.
Our service is free, friendly and confidential and is there for you, your family or your friends.
Drugs/Alcohol awareness
We can support you to stop or reduce drugs alcohol or smoking and help you understand the effects of drug and alcohol use and the impact on individuals and lifestyle.
Counselling
Helping you explore your feelings and relationships more effectively giving you an opportunity to look at issues in-depth and gain a clearer understanding to support you in moving on.
Health Issues
Our workers can support you with any health or sexual health concerns. We are also a condom distribution outlet providing free contraception with STI screening (chlamydia and gonorrhea testing).
Smoking Cessation
This includes finding and planning the best way to support you in giving up smoking.
Treatment options
This will include finding and planning the best way to help with your drug/alcohol use in discussion with you.
Family support
We know that parents and carers can often get upset when there are drug and alcohol problems in the family. In those circumstances, we are happy to talk to your parents and carers with your consent and help improve relationships
Housing issues
Sometimes young people who use drugs and alcohol find themselves with nowhere to stay. We can support you by ensuring you have the right access to appropriate services.
Advice and Information
We can provide advice and information on drugs and alcohol we can also give information on other services that can help you.
These are some the things that we can help you with. Feel free to call us or pop into the Matrix or you may see one of our workers in your school or local youth group. Please feel free to approach them to ask any questions you may have.
If you would like to refer a young person to the Matrix, please find the referral forms here.
If you need any more information or if you’re worried about a friend or relative, get in touch today!
