This is a Resource Guide developed for adolescents and parents.
Personal Hygiene
Teen Health
www.teenshealth.org
Kotex
www.kotex.com
Web Health Centre
www.webhealthcentre.com
Ask Jeeves
www.ask.com
American Academy of Pediatrics
www.aap.org
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
www.cdc.gov
Healthy Kids
www.healthykids.com
Self-Esteem and Peer Pressure
Kids Health
www.kidshealth.org
Problems with Self-Esteem
Teens Health Centre
www.teenhealthcentre.com
Self-Esteem Resources
www.self-esteem-nase.org
Outlines the history, aims and objectives
Parenting Teens
www.parentingteens.about.com
Negative and positive peer pressure
Teen Relationships
www.teenrelationships.org
Discuss your relationship with other teens
Teen Wire
www.teenwire.com
Answers questions about sex, dating and love
Teen Advice Center
http://go.to/teenadvicecenter
Hotline numbers for teens
I Wanna Know
www.iwannaknow.org
Healthy Eating – Nutrition
Teens Health
www.teenhealth.org
Young Women’s Health-Healthy Eating www.youngwomenshealth.org/healtheating.html
About.com – Nutrition www.nutrition.about.com
Health A to Z.com: Your Family Health Site – Healthy Eating www.healthatoz.com/atoz/lifestyles/food/hfoodindex.html
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders www.anad.org
National Eating Disorders Association www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
Nutrition.com.sg – Making Sense of Healthy Eating www.nutrition.com.sg
Nutrition Werks – Health Eating Works www.nutritionwerks.com
American Dietetic Association – ADA National Center for Nutrition and Dietetics (NCND) Consumer Nutrition Hotline Number 800-366-1655
Drugs & Alcohol
American Council for Drug Education Substance Abuse Prevention and Education www.acde.org
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) www.nida.nih.gov/
Focus Adolescent Services Clearinghouse of Information, Resources and Support for Teens and Their Families www.focusas.com
National Drug and Treatment Referral Routing Service 800-662-4357 For alcohol and drug information, treatment and referrals.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and SAMSHA’s National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information www.health.org/default.aspx or call 800-729-6686
Alcoholics Anonymous www.alcoholics-anonymous.org
Lifenet 800-543-3638 or 877-298-3373
New York City Department of Health www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/bureau/basas.html#help
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Teen Wire www.teenwire.com
Teens Health www.teenshealth.org
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) 800-227-8922 www.cdc.gov
www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/dsdp.html
National Herpes Hotline 919-361-8488 www.ashastd.org
Herpes Resource Center 800-230-6039 www.ibiblio.org/asha/herpes/hrc.html
NYC Department of Health AIDS Hotline – HIV Prevention Program 800-TALK-HIV or 800-825-5448 www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/ah/ah.html
NYC Department of Health – Sexually Transmitted Disease Control Program www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/std.html
NYC Women’s Health Service Hotline 212-230-1111
Planned Parenthood of New York City www.ppnyc.org
Abstinence
www.teensrelationships.org
www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/home
Sexuality
www.teenshealth.org
www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/std.html