Advocates For Youth
Advocates for Youth champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. This site features section for teens and other information, plus links to sites about HIV prevention, healthy sexuality, peer education, teen pregnancy prevention and more!
Check Yourself
See whether your drug or alcohol use might be turning into a problem. The website includes links to treatment resources, the opportunity to interact with other teens who have experienced their own "moments of truth," and a series of quizzes youth can take to assess the depth of their drug or alcohol problem.
Department of Health and Human Services
Provides all kinds of information about your health. Also features many interesting links.
Foster Club
Foster Club is just for foster youth. They have a different site for kids and teens (as well as a site for adults). Foster Club's mission is to provide foster children with a network that allows them to communicate with each other and provide them with education, motivation, and benefits that the foster care system does not usually provide. The teen site has great information about getting ready for life as an adult AFTER you leave foster care.
I Wanna Know
A resource for teenagers to learn the facts about sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases.
Job Information
Are you a working teen? This site tells you what you should know about safety and health on the job. The website can be viewed in Spanish as well. (See Youth Rules below for more information on youth employment.)
Kaleidoscope Youth Coalition
Information about issues facing gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and trans-gender youth.
KASA
Kids As Self Advocates (KASA) is an organization created by youth with disabilities for youth to educate society about issues concerning youth with a wide spectrum of disabilities and special healthcare needs. KASA believes in supporting self-determination, creating support networks and proactive advocacy for all youth with disabilities in our society.
National Runaway Switchboard Kids & Teens Page
This website has information and help to see you through whatever you're experiencing, whether you are in serious trouble and need immediate help or just need someone to listen.
SafePlace Teen Helplines
A list of toll free teen helplines for immediate help.
SafePlace Teen Topics
Helpful information and resources about many important topics from alcohol and drugs to eating disorders to running away.
Teen Central.Net
Find out "whassup" with people you can relate to at TeenCentral.Net, the help-line web site for teens, by teens.
Youth Rules
Youth Rules is an initiative of the U.S. Department of labor to give parents, educators and teens up-to-date information on federal and state regulations for youth employment. (See Job Information above for more information on youth employment.)
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