Important Resources
Introduction
- Adolescent Health Transition Project - Designed to help the transition from pediatric to adult health care for adolescents with special health care needs. This site is a resource for information, materials, and links.
- AdolescentHealth.com - Providing education, clinical care, research, and health care information for adolescents.
- The AWARE Foundation - Dedicated to educating and empowering adolescents to make responsible decisions regarding their wellness, sexuality, and reproductive health. Ask questions, health facts for teens and parents.
- AWARE: Teens - Abstinence Wait-training And Relationship Education offers information for teens on healthy sexual behavior. Includes abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases, FAQs, and answers to personal questions by email.
- Breasts and its Development: Information and Guide for Teenage girls - Offers in-depth information of breast development from childhood to menopause stage, and serves as an enlightening guide for teenage girls.
- CDC's Adolescent and School Health Program - For adolescents and educational institutions. Informative health topics regarding tobacco and drug use, high risk behavior fact sheets, and tools and strategies for providing healthy environments in schools.
- Family Health Productions - Young people learn everything they need to know about growing up, and families learn how to talk about it.
- 4girls Health - Gives adolescent girls reliable, current health information. The site focuses on adolescent girls' health concerns and motivates girls to choose healthy behaviors.
- Health and Wellness Information for Girls - Provides information about physical health and emotional well-being. Provides a variety of articles on many subject matters reguarding teens.
- Hearing Damage and Loud Music - Document, from abelard, on the relationship between loud noise and ear damage, with particular reference to young people and loud music.
- MedlinePlus: Teen Health - Directory of health related resources concentrated on the health of teens.
- Ted Noffs Foundation - Provides comprehensive life management programs designed to equip youth at risk with the skills to better manage their own lives.
- Teen Health FX - Providing health and medical information, access to medical, mental health, and other support services in Northern New Jersey.
- Teen Health Information - Covers information about puberty, acne, weight, teen pregnancy and peer pressure.
- Teen Health Issues - Find information about health issues important to teens and health services available from many health and social service agencies in the Mahoning Valley.
- Teen Matters - Information on teen issues including stress, depression, body image, and relationships.
- Teenagers and Mental Health - Informative articles and links regarding depression, suicide, suicide prevention, youth violence, substance abuse.
- TeensHealth - Created by doctors, has honest, accurate information and advice about health, relationships, and growing up.
- Youth In Transition - Youth with chronic health disorders and their caregivers can find information and resources to assist in their transition to independence and self-management.