Youth Advice Centre (YAC) Brighton
Support offered at YAC Brighton
Contact Information and Opening Times
You can pop into the Youth Advice Centre and speak to a member of the team at the following times:
Support and Advice: Drop-in appointments available on weekdays from 11am (subject to staff availability)
Ways to get in touch:
- Visit Us: 11 St George’s Place, Brighton, BN1 4GB
- Call us: 01273624432
The YMCA Youth Advice Centre (YAC) offers advice, support and guidance to young people in Brighton and Hove. The YAC team are able to offer expertise on a wide range of topics. Our aim is to provide young people in the local area with a safe and friendly environment where they can access helpful advice and support.
We offer a Family Support & Mediation Service and a Support & Advice Service providing sexual health advice and services, emotional and wellbeing support and benefits and money advice.
Support and Advice at YAC
The Support & Advice service is a safe space where any young person aged 13-25 can talk to a worker one to one and receive the support around a wide range of topics including:
Access to the C Card (free condoms) scheme and relationship support. HIV, STI and Chemsex awareness support and referral pathways.
Anger management advice, self-esteem support, self-harm, stress and anxiety, bullying support and help accessing mental health support and counselling. Support around ADHD and ASC referral for finding appropriate support and advice accessing GP and additional services. Advocacy support to access additional statutory and non-statutory services.
Help filling in forms and support to make claims, budgeting and money management advice and help to access specialist benefit support. Support accessing ID and relevant information to enable access to appropriate support. Gambling support.
Support completing CV's, job applications and searches, finding training and education, support accessing well-being teams, learning support mentors and referring to other appropriate services. Support with accessing transport for education. We support young people with accessing volunteering opportunities. Cooking classes with potential for additional training. Local training schemes and job opportunities.
Partner with external organisations to support funding and financial crisis for young people, in-house support accessing funding for essential items, food, energy bills and additional support. We offer a direct referral pathway to access funding through Brighton and Hove City Council and the Community Hub, completing referrals for Local Discretionary Social Fund, Housing Support Fund, Lift-Up Fund and Food Bank referrals - if you are unable to be supported by our Food Market project.
We work in partnership with multiple organisations and are a direct referral pathway for all forms of support outside of housing.
Housing Advice
- Young people requiring housing advice (including emergency assessments for homelessness) should approach Brighton and Hove City Council (BHCC) for assessment.
BHCC Customer Service Centre:
The Brighton YAC Support and Advice Team are still here for any non-housing related support.
Family Mediation
Our family mediation service is for 14-25 year olds and their families who may be experiencing conflict or relationship breakdown. The team is based at our Youth Advice Centre in Brighton and provides a confidential, impartial and non-judgemental space, allowing families to share how they are feeling with a trained mediator.
We have proven results of over 90% of strengthening relationships and reducing the risk of youth homelessness within Brighton and Hove.
Contact our family mediation team
- Send an email to the team here
- Fill out a referral form here - please note, once you have filled out the form you will need to email it to [email protected]
Find out more about Family Mediation here.
YMCA YAC Food Market
A Youth-Led sustainable social grocery store
If you are 16-25, live in Brighton and Hove, and seeking an affordable and sustainable way to shop locally or low waste, then YAC Food Market has something for you. The aim of this project is to support young people in accessing healthy, low-cost foods and shopping products at a simple one-stop shop – an easy way for young people to access locally produced
and supermarket surplus, providing a modern and sustainable approach to food waste and food poverty. YAC is keen to empower young people throughout the project, seeking volunteers, feedback, and inspiration for how YAC Food Market can reflect the needs of our community.
We are partnering with Brighton and Hove City Council, Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, FareShare Sussex, Neighbourly, Brighton and Hove Food Factory, and Sussex University.
Privacy Notice
To see our privacy notice for young people using our services click here.
Our information sharing document explains why we may need to share young people's information and how we do this.
