Additional Web Resources
Advocates for Youth
www.advocatesforyouth.org
Advocates for Youth believes that young people have the right to participate meaningfully in developing programs and policies that will affect their health and well-being. Advocates for Youth works in the United States and in developing countries to promote youth-adult partnerships and to empower young people as advocates and leaders in the field of sexual health. Provides information, training and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists and the media.
Building Partnerships for Youth
http://www.cals-cf.calsnet.arizona.edu/fcs/index.cfm
The goal of the project is to help the organizations provide youth, ages 9 to 13, with the motivation to delay the onset of sexual intercourse. This partnership operates under the premise that youth need both motivation and capacity to make healthy choices.
I Wanna Know
http://www.iwannaknow.org
A website by the American Social Health Association with answers to questions about teen sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases.
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
http://www.teenpregnancy.org
A nonprofit, nonpartisan initiative supported almost entirely by private donations. Its mission is to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families by reducing teen pregnancy. The goal of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by one-third between 2006 and 2015.
Real Life, Real Talk
http://www.realliferealtalk.org
The aim of Real Life, Real Talk is to positively change the social climate in communities by creating more open, honest, and balanced talk about sex and health. A more positive social climate will, over time, help to ensure that people, particularly young people, have adequate information and services to enable them to make healthy sexual choices.
Sex, Etc.
http://www.sexetc.org/
Sex, Etc. is an award-winning national magazine and Web site on sexual health that is written by teens, for teens. It is part of the Teen-to-Teen Sexuality Education Project developed by Answer (formerly the Network for Family Life Education), a leading national organization dedicated to providing and promoting comprehensive sexuality education. Answer is based at the Center for Applied Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Teen Wire
http://www.teenwire.com
A website for teens by Planned Parenthood Federation of America.