Resources for Teens
We fully believe that when you know better, you do better.
Online Resources
American Sexual Health Association:
This association provides information about sexual health and specific resources for teens and young adults.
Center for Young Women’s Health | Center for Young Men’s Health
These websites provide information for adolescents, including guides on contraception, STIs, LGBT health, and puberty.
GirlsHealth.Gov
This website provides facts on sex and STDs, as well as ways to protect yourself. It also features a testing center locator.
Coalition for Positive Sexuality
This website offers resources and tools for teens to take care of themselves and help them to make decisions about sex.
Bedsider:
This website has information that helps young people learn about birth control. It discusses different birth control types as well as their benefits and side effects.
Go Ask Alice!:
This website is geared toward young people and contains a large database of questions and answers about reproductive and sexual health.
Love Matters
This website offers a space to talk and ask questions about love, sex, and relationships for young adults
Options for Sexual Health
This online resource offers sexual and reproductive health care, information, and education.
Safe Teens:
This website can help teens find information on teen pregnancy, STDs, safe sex, relationships, and LGBTQ issues.
Scarleteen
This website provides a wealth of information for teens and young adults about sexuality, sex, and relationships, as well as advice and support
MTV, It’s Your Sex Life
This is an interactive website made by MTV that has resources for young adults on pregnancy, STDs and testing, being LBGTQ, relationships, and consent.
Stay Teen
Using videos, games, quizzes, and a sex education resource center, this website delivers quality information about sex, relationships, abstinence & birth control
Teen Health
Adolescents can use this website to learn facts about sexual health including articles about puberty, menstruation, infections, and birth control.
Books
Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships
by Ruth Bell Alexander
It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health
by Robie Harris, Illustratedby Michael Emberley
Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl
by Ester Drill
by Lynda Madaras
What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters
Lynda Madaras
by Mavis Jukes
GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens
by Kelly Huegel
The Real Truth about Teens and Sex: From Hooking Up to Friends with Benefits – What Teens Are Thinking, Doing and Talking About and How to Help Them Make Smart Choices
by Sabrina Weill
The Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality,
by Michael Basso