Q7Mar11

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Got a quick question asking......

Can you point me in the direction of any services that may offer help & support to young

people who have suffered a facial disfigurement / scarring of some kind.

This is our reply.......

The national organisation for support is

# Changing Faces, The Squire Centre, 33-37 University Street, London, WC1E 6JN.
Telephone: 0207 391 9270. Open 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Email: matthewa@changingfaces.org.uk
Website: http://www.changingfaces.org.uk/Home

Changing Faces also has a website just for young people aged 11 - 21 years:
# http://www.iface.org.uk. There is a helpline: 0845 4500 275, open Monday-Friday
9am-5pm, and appointments for online counselling are offered.

Depending on the original cause of the disfigurement there would be also support available
from, for example

# BM The Birthmark Support Group, London. WC1N 3XX. Telephone: 0845 045 4700.
Website: http://www.birthmarksupportgroup.org.uk/. They have a group for 11-21 year
olds called Teentalk

# Cancer Research UK, P.O. Box 123, London. WC2A 3PX. Telephone 0808 800 4040,
open Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm. Website: http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk

# The National Eczema Society, Hill House, Highgate Hill. London. N19 5NA. Telephone
0800 089 1122, open Monday - Friday 8am-8pm. Website: http://www.eczema.org

There is also information at
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/facialdisfigurement/Pages/Facialdisfigurementhome.aspx

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