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AAHC's Links to Teen Resources
Adolescent Health http://www.adolescenthealth.com
Advocates for Youth http://www.advocatesforyouth.org
The American Academy of Pediatrics has a variety of handouts on acne, depression, eating disorders, puberty etc- http://www.aap.org/bookstore
ASHA's web site, http://www.iwannaknow.org provides information to both teens and parents on teen sexual health and STDs.
Boston Children's website, http://www.youngwomenshealth.org
Family oriented treatment of eating disorders in adolescents, http://www.kartiniclinic.com
The Family Doctor - http://www.aap.org/bookstore
http://www.hify.org - health information for youth - San Francisco, California
Kids Health http://www.kidshealth.org
Maine's Teen Health http://www.maineteenhealth.org
Minnesota Department of Health has a web site for providers of teen health care
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/chs/adolescent/index.html
If you are not familiar with it, the best magazine for early adolescent girls (roughly 9 - 14) is New Moon, published out of Duluth, Minn, with a girls' editorial board - I believe you can check it out at http://www.newmoon.org - it would be great to find this in waiting rooms!!!!
PFLAG http://www.pflag.org
School-Based Health Centers: In terms of access to care, there are well documented experiences with school-based health centers. There is an extensive bibliography and a summary of outcomes studies on Health in Schools' web site, http://www.healthinschools.org, and many how-to tools on the National Assembly on School-based Health Care web site, http://www.nasbhc.org.
Search Institute http://www.search-institute.org
SIECUS http://www.siecus.org
Talking With Kids http://www.talkingwithkids.org
Teen Driving http://www.drivehomesafe.com/teen_driving_steps_to_reduce_risk_of_crashes_and_fatalities.htm
Teen Growth http://www.teengrowth.com
Teen Health FX, http://www.TeenHealthFX.com, is specifically for teens to provide them with accurate answers to their most intimate, pressing (and anonymous) questions of any kind, the staff (health educator, social worker, psychologist, adolescent medicine physicians) do provide education and outreach to parents as well as teens. In 2001, the site was the winner of an American Hospital Association NOVA award and New Jersey Hospital Association HRET award.
Teen Pregnancy http://www.teenpregnancy.org/
Tips on Teens http://www.tipsonteens.com/
http://www.viaproject.org, a site dedicated to Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA), the project that asks adolescents to make visual illness narrative on video to teach their care providers about their needs and issues.
Youth Embassy http://www.YouthEmbassy.com
http://www.youngwomenshealth.org - the Children's Hospital of Boston site for, well, young women.
http://www.yuhip.org - a site by youth for youth, Baltimore, Maryland
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