Academy for Adolescent Health www.healthyteens.com
This is a site for a community-based program in Pennsylvania addressing adolescent health issues. The program offers information on several different initiatives including teen pregnancy prevention, peer education, mentoring, and fatherhood programs.
Advocates for Youth www.advocatesforyouth.org
Information for adolescents, parents, and health professionals about sexual and reproductive health. Among its fact sheets, newsletters, and reports are publications written by teens for teens. Also offers information about successful pregnancy-prevention strategies, interventions, and initiatives throughout the country.
Afterschool.gov www.afterschool.gov
Connections to federal resources that support children and youth during out of school hours. Includes database of more than 100 grant and loan programs from the federal government, community success stories and opportunities to network; government guides, reports, research and links; and web-links for kids and teens.
American Academy of Pediatrics www.aap.org
The Academy is committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults.
American Bar Association Center for Children and the Law www.abanet.org/child
Their mission is to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice and public policy.
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals: National Adolescent Reproductive Health Partnership www.arhp.org/rap
An interdisciplinary medical professional association which brings together all practitioners in the reproductive health arena to facilitate the development and implementation of a coordinated strategic plan among private organizations and government agencies to address the problems of adolescent sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy.
Campaign for Our Children www.cfoc.org/index.cfm
The mission of Campaign for Our Children, Inc. is to develop research-based prevention messages and educational media campaigns which encourage healthy, responsible sexual decisions among early-adolescent youth, promote a more informed support system for youth, and raise public awareness about adolescent preventive health issues.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Division of Adolescent and School Health www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/index.htm
Information for health professionals and school personnel about preventing the most serious health risk behaviors among children, adolescents and young adults, including sexual behaviors that may result in unintended pregnancy. Includes data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) and information about successful risk prevention programs.
Child Trends www.childtrends.org
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to studying children, youth and families through research, data collection and analyses.
Child Welfare League of America www.cwla.org
Works to improve life for abused, neglected and vulnerable children and their families by advancing child welfare practices, while consulting with trained child welfare professionals and conducting research. The Florence Crittenton Division seeks to promote pregnancy prevention among youth in high-risk communities through research, standards of best practice, training institutes, conferences and publications.
Children's Defense Fund www.childrensdefense.org
Works to provide a strong and effective voice for all children, particularly for poor and minority children and those with disabilities by educating the nation about the needs of children and encouraging preventive investment in children before they get sick, drop out of school, suffer family breakdown or get into trouble.
Childstats childstats.gov
Reports of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics include federal and state statistics and reports on population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment and education.
Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Population Affairs (OPA), Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs www.hhs.gov/opa/titlexx/oapp.html
Information about funding history, legislation, research listings and grantees are available.
Healthy Teen Network (HTN) www.healthyteennetwork.org
HTN's Electronic Clearinghouse on Adolescent Health offers a searchable database of materials on teen pregnancy and prevention, HIV/STI prevention, the children of teen parents, involving families in promoting adolescents' sexual health, involving young men in pregnancy prevention, sex education, teen parents, violence and teen pregnancy, and youth development. HTN's Web site also offers policy statements, access to and membership in the HTN, and information on annual conferences, state coalitions, and networking efforts.
Institute for Youth Development www.youthdevelopment.org
Site promotes a comprehensive risk avoidance message to youth for five harmful risk behaviors: alcohol, drugs, sex, tobacco and violence. This web site is designed for both professionals in the field of youth development and for mothers, fathers, and teens looking for current information and advice.
Kids Help kidshelp.sympatico.ca/en/
Provides links to STDs and AIDS, eating disorders, birth control, drug abuse, sexual violence, abuse, and suicide. Offers opportunity to participate in discussion groups.
March of Dimes www.modimes.org
Seeks to improve the health of babies by preventing infant mortality and birth defects through research, education, community service and advocacy.
National Adolescent Health Information Center www.ucsf.edu/youth
The National Adolescent Health Information Center is based within the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. It has a mission to improve adolescents' health by serving as a national resource for adolescent health information and research and by working to promote the integration, synethesis, coordination, and dissemination of information on adolescent health. Reports and synetheses of health information are available full-text on the site.
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy www.teenpregnancy.org
To reduce teenage pregnancy, the Campaign provides a national presence and leadership to raise awareness of the issue and to attract new voices and resources to the cause as well as ease the many disagreements that have plagued both national and local efforts to address this problem. The site provides facts, statistics, information about resources, task forces, publications and upcoming events.
Pregnancy, Education, and Parenting (PEP) www.tea.state.tx.us/pep/index.html
The PEP program strives to reduce the number of students who drop out of school due to pregnancy and/or parenthood and to recover young parents who are 21 years old or younger to the educational system. School districts participating in PEP programs provide an integrated program of educational and support services for students who are pregnant or who are parents.
The Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (ReCAPP) www.etr.org/recapp
Provides information about reducing sexual risk-taking behaviors among teens.
Seventeen www.seventeen.com
Site for teens that provides fashion tips, the entertainment buzz and information, and on-line chats about love, sex and safer sex.
SEX, ETC. www.sxetc.org
Interactive website by and for teens that offers the opportunity to ask experts and discuss a variety of topics about sex, sexual health and relationships.
Society for Adolescent Medicine www.adolescenthealth.org
Professional organization committed to improving the physical and psychosocial health and well-being of adolescents through promoting communication and collaboration among professionals, excellence in research, and public and professional awareness of the health-related needs of adolescents.
StudentHealth.co.uk www.studenthealth.co.uk/index.htm
Young people away from home for the first time are bound to have questions about health issues, but accurate, non-judgemental advice can be hard to find. StudentHealth.co.uk offers no-nonsense, properly researched advice in simple English. Founded by the doctors at the University of Sussex in response to student requests, it provides medical and health advice in printable leaflet form. The site is updated weekly and deals with topical health problems like exam stress or holiday jabs as well as having leaflets on over two hundred different medical issues. These are listed alphabetically or you can look in the archive where they are separated into sections like 'Beauty Spot' for skin problems and 'Sex in the City' for sexual health.
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues www.talkingwithkids.org/dads
The Kaiser Family Foundation (Children Now) and the National Fatherhood Initiative have collaborated to develop this site designed to encourage fathers to play an active role in talking with their children about sex, violence, drugs, HIV/AIDS, and other topics.
Teen Advice Online (TAO) www.teenadvice.org
This site provides information on teenage problems through a www-network of peers 13 years and older. Interested teens can apply to become a TAO counselor.
Teen Health Website www.chebucto.ns.ca/Health/TeenHealth/index.html
This site includes information about: healthy sexuality, sexual orientation, sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, women's health, men's health and sexual assault.
teenpregnancy.org www.teenpregnancy.org
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan
organization supported almost entirely by private donations. The Campaign's
mission is to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families by reducing teen pregnancy. Their goal is to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by one-third between 1996 and 2005. The Campaign has adopted a two-part strategy to building a more coordinated and effective grassroots movement and influencing cultural values and messages by working with the entertainment media and such other influential sectors in society as faith communities.
Teenwire www.teenwire.com
Bilingual interactive site for teens that provides information about relationships and a variety of health and contraception topics. Teens can take quick polls, find out if they're ready to have sex, read stories other teens have written and get answers to pressing questions.
