Sexual Health

MYAN aims to connect you with a wide range of organizations and resources on this topic. If you do not find what you are looking for, please contact MYAN.
Who's Who in Maine

Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/bohdcfh/tya/index.html 

Family Planning Association (FPA) of Maine
http://www.fpam.org 
The Family Planning Association of Maine provides funding, technical support and quality assurance to 30 clinics statewide serving over 30,000 women and teens annually.

Maine Assembly on School-Based Health Care (MeASBHC)
http://www.measbhc.org  
Supports the development and operations of school-based health care services in Maine and to improve access to quality health care services for Maine's children and adolescents. 

Maine CDC/DHHS Public Health Information Inventory
http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/boh/phdata/
This webpage provides the user with a central location to search for public health data and data-related information published by the Maine CDC. It contains nearly 500 recently published documents as well as links to useful public health data websites.  

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
http://www.ppnne.org
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) is the largest reproductive health care and sexuality education provider and advocate in northern New England. Provides, promotes, and protects access to reproductive health care and sexuality education so that all people can make voluntary choices about their reproductive and sexual health. 

Print Resources

  • Toward a Sexually Healthy America (Advocates for Youth)

    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.