Teen Health

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Adolescent Health Transition Project - Designed to help the transition from pediatric to adult health care for adolescents with special health care needs. This site is a resource for information, materials, and links.

AdolescentHealth.com - Providing education, clinical care, research, and health care information for adolescents.

Adolesence Directory Online - An electronic guide that focus on the social and emotional growth and development needs of adolescents.

The AWARE Foundation - Dedicated to educating and empowering adolescents to make responsible decisions regarding their wellness, sexuality, and reproductive health. Ask questions, health facts for teens and parents.

AWARE: Teens - Abstinence Wait-training And Relationship Education offers information for teens on healthy sexual behavior. Includes abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases, FAQs, and answers to personal questions by email.

Breasts and its Development: Information and Guide for Teenage girls - Offers in-depth information of breast development from childhood to menopause stage, and serves as an enlightening guide for teenage girls.

CDC's Adolescent and School Health Program - For adolescents and educational institutions. Informative health topics regarding tobacco and drug use, high risk behavior fact sheets, and tools and strategies for providing healthy environments in schools.

Connect Online - Teens with chronic or serious illnesses can come to meet other people just like them, get advice, share experiences, and talk to someone who's "been there" with a serious illness.

Keep Kids Healthy: Adolescent Health Center - Information on school performance problems, weight management, scoliosis, puberty, short stature, smoking, drinking, and building self esteem.

MedlinePlus: Teen Health - Directory of health related resources concentrated on the health of teens.

Teen Health and the Media - A virtual meeting place for teens, parents, educators, health professionals, and others who share a strong commitment to teen health.

Teen Health Connection - Provides health and mental health services to young men and women, ages 11-21, general health information, support and advice for the young adult and their family.

Teen Health FX - Providing health and medical information, access to medical, mental health, and other support services in Northern New Jersey.

Teen Health Issues - Find information about health issues important to teens and health services available from many health and social service agencies in the Mahoning Valley.

Teen Matters - Information on teen issues including stress, depression, body image, and relationships.

Teenagers and Mental Health - Informative articles and links regarding depression, suicide, suicide prevention, youth violence, substance abuse.

TeensHealth - Created by doctors, has honest, accurate information and advice about health, relationships, and growing up.

Youth Advisory Group - University of Auckland - Delivers health promotions and risk prevention and intervention programmes developed to enhance the uptake of healthy lifestyle behaviours by young people. Word list, events, and a survey.

Youth Health - Offers a wide selection of articles and useful information on for young adults age 12-25.

Youth In Transition - Youth with chronic health disorders and their caregivers can find information and resources to assist in their transition to independence and self-management.