TACTIC Centre		Leighton Buzzard

TACTIC Centre The TACTIC Centre has been open for three and a half years; TACTIC stands for Teenage Advice Centre, Teenage Information Centre. We are open from 3 – 6 Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 3 – 7 Tuesday and Thursday and 12 – 4 Saturday. Do you have a health issue, but don’t want to go to your doctor? Well, TACTIC has a Health Professional for you to chat to between 4.30pm to 5.30pm Most days, offering confidential advice on many subjects including: Pregnancy tests, Condoms, the Morning after Pill and Chlamydia testing are also available, completely free! If you want to check if we have a health professional in, then you can phone us, but don’t worry you don’t have to leave your name if you don’t want to.

	The TACTIC Centre works with many agencies that are based in and around Bedfordshire, these include: CAB (Citizens Advice Bureau) Youth Service P.U.K.E (Alcohol service) YOT (Youth Offending Team)

Also Connexions come to the centre twice a week on a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. You can make an appointment or just drop in. Plan B (drugs agency) are also at the centre on a Tuesday. If you would like to speak to a Plan B drugs worker, speak to a support worker at TACTIC or give us a call. Of course support workers are always available at the centre to answer questions or just to listen. Talk Time is another service that the TACTIC Centre offers. Talk Time is a service for young people, regardless of gender, race, disability, religion or sexual orientation who need support. A trained counsellor is available to chat to confidentially on, Thursdays from 4 – 7 and Fridays from 4 – 6.

You can either make an appointment or drop in. It’s where YOU can talk in private to someone who wants to listen. If you want to speak to an agency and we haven’t listed them or spoken about them please let us know, and if you want us to, we will get in touch with them for you. Anything you say to any member of staff that works at the TACTIC Centre will be taken in the strictest of confidence and will not be passed on to any one else, unless we feel that you or any body else is in immediate danger, but we will always discuss this with you first.

For more information please contact Rachel Hughes on the number below. TACTIC Centre 17 Hockliffe Street Leighton Buzzard Beds LU7 1EZ 01525 373838 tactic1@btconnect.com