- American Academy of Pediatrics
Parent Corner provides parents with important information about adolescence to parents and doctors with adolescent patients. - American Medical Association
Parent Packets provides helpful research-based health care information to parents and caregivers. - The Benton Foundation (Connect for Kids)
The Benton Foundation has played a leading role as producer and strategist in national children's campaigns - CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health
Provides a variety of resources, including statistics on pregnancy, birth and STD rates by state, guidelines for comprehensive school health education, and funding opportunities for school health programs. - Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Parent Resource Center provides valuable links to parent-friendly resources on child and adolescent health issues. - Communities In Schools
Assists children and youth toward success in school and preparation for life. - Focus Adolescent Services
Family Help in Mississippi provides an array of links, hotline and helpline contacts, publication information, state directories, events, resources, school topics and other topics relevant to adolescent health issues. - National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Provides listings of their available publications and statistics on teen pregnancy. - National Youth Development Information Center
An online journalism and advocacy center by and for the child and youth field - National Youth Employment Coalition
Provides tips, assessment tools, and criteria for successful youth employment programs. - The Search Institute
The Search Institute has identified 40 critical factors necessary for young people's growth and development. Learn more about the 40 developmental assets as well as the Healthy Community, Healthy Youth initiative.
More Organizations and Links
- Advocates for Youth
- Afterschool Alliance
Provides awareness on the importance of afterschool programs and advocacy information about quality, affordable programs for children. - America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth
Provides information on how communities can build the character and competence of our nation's youth. - Boy Scouts of America
Prepares young people through scouting to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling the values of the Scout Oath and Law. - Building Partnerships for Youth
- Campaign for Our Children, Inc.
- Center for Assessment and Policy Development
- Children, Youth and Family Consortium Electronic Clearinghouse
Provides information about families and learning, including programs and resources on fathering, summaries of key research, and lists of measurement tools for evaluations. - Children's Safety Network
- Child Trends
- CityMatCH
- DHHS Children's Bureau
- Girls Inc.
- Girl Scouts of the USA
- Guttmacher Institute
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
A clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children. - National Clearinghouse on Homeless Youth and Families
- National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI)
- National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- 100 Black Men of America
Provides support services that address the social, emotional, educational and cultural needs of children ages 8-18. Members of the 100 are trained and certified to become mentors, advocates, and role models for youth within their communities. - Rural Information Center Health Services
- Search Institute
- SIECUS
- TeensHealth.com
Provides teens and their families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information. - The Bureau for At-Risk Children
- Urban Institute