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Multicultural women discuss body acceptance, identity, self-esteem, and activism.
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD)
We provide hotline counseling, a national network of free support groups, referrals to health care professionals, and education and prevention programs to promote self-acceptance and healthy lifestyles.
National Eating Disorders Association
Dedicated to expanding public understanding of eating disorders and promoting access to quality treatment for those affected along with support for their families through education, advocacy and research.
4 Girls Health
Developed by the Office on Women’s Health in the Department of Health and Human Services gives girls between the ages of 10 and 16 reliable, current health information.
Arte Sana (art heals)
A nonprofit agency for underserved survivors of gender and racial violence that promotes healing and empowerment through the arts and community education.
Black Women’s Health
An online forum for African American women that provides information and strategies targeted at improving health and wellness.
Center for Young Women’s Health
The mission of their website, YoungWomensHealth.org, is to help teen girls, their parents, teachers, and health care providers improve their understanding of normal health and development, as well as of specific diseases and conditions. They want to empower teen girls and young women around the world to take an active role in their own health care.
Feminist’s Women’s Health Center
Providing women of all ages with information so they can freely make their own decisions about their bodies and sexuality.
Centers for Disease Control STD Hotline
Provides facts and information on STDs. The hotline is 1-800-227-8922 (English), 1-800-344 7432 (Spanish), or 1-800-243-7889 (TTY).
Go Ask Alice
Produced by Columbia University’s Health Education Program, this site has questions and answers on relationships, sexuality, and sexual health issues.
Health Initiatives for Youth (HIFY)
Works to improve the health and well-being of all young people. HIFY gives information about health in a non-judgmental, straightforward kind of way, so that young people can make their own decisions about what affects them.
It’s Your Sex Life
Sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, this site offers information on STDs, birth control, abstinence, and how to talk with your partner or your parents about sexual health issues.
I Wanna Know
A project of the American Social Health Association, this site provides information on STDs, body basics, and advice on how to deal with peer pressure.
National HIV Testing Resources
This Web site contains many resources on HIV testing including a national database of HIV testing sites and answers to many questions about HIV/AIDS and testing.
National Women’s Health Information Center: Minority Women’s Health
A Web site to help you learn about the most common health risks and concerns of minority women
Native Shop
A project of the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center, to address pertinent issues of health, education, land and water rights, and economic development of Native American people
Not-2-Late
This Web site provides information about emergency contraception, to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex.
Not Me Not Now
A site for teens who are choosing to wait, with articles, quizzes and a safe space where you can chat with other teens like yourself.
Planned Parenthood
Believes in the fundamental right of each individual, throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the individual’s income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or residence. Planned Parenthood clinics offer medical services, STI, HIV and pregnancy testing, and counseling. To find a clinic in your area, please go here.
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
The Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP) puts choice on young women’s radar screens, educates them about threats to their reproductive rights, and helps young women identify with pro-choice ideas. PEP is energizing a new generation of pro-choice leaders.
Scarleteen
A resource for sex information for teens as well as a supplement to in-home and school-based sex education to allow teens to make their own choices, and develop their own systems of ethics and values from themselves and their families.
Scenarios USA
This site allows you to watch films—written by and for teens—that address important topics such as relationships, communication, sexual identity, teen pregnancy, and HIV/AIDS.
Sex Etc.
Written by teens, this Web site offers information on sexual health issues for young people.
Teen Pregnancy
Created by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, this site has information for young people and adults who want to prevent teen pregnancy.
Teen Wire
This site from Planned Parenthood gives great information on body basics, how not to have sex if you don’t want it, safer sex, and dealing with breaking up. It also provides referrals to local clinics.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
A Web site and 24 hour hotline dedicated to helping people who have experienced domestic/partner violence. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please call the
The Safe Space – Break the Cycle
A project of Break the Cycle, thesafespace.org is a comprehensive resource on the web where teens and young adults can learn about domestic and dating violence, as well as their legal rights and options.
Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
RAINN provides a hotline, educates the public about sexual assault, and leads national efforts to improve services to victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice . A 24 hour national hotline for survivors of sexual assault. Call for support and counseling at 1-800-656-HOPE.
Feminist Majority Foundation State Crisis Centers
A list of sexual assault crisis centers in the United States.
ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH WEBSITES AND PROGRAMS
An online community dedicated to sexual health, reproductive justice, and youth-led grassroots movement building.
AmbienteJoven
A Spanish-language Web site for Latino young men who have sex with men (YMSM) and for Latino/a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) youth in the United States and Latin America. Ambiente Joven’s peer educators provide culturally relevant information and support on sexual health issues.
International Youth Leadership Council
This Council works to educate policy makers, the media, and the American public about the importance of increasing U.S. funding for global HIV/AIDS and international family planning as well as the need for comprehensive sex education and confidential health care services in the United States and abroad.
Young Women of Color Leadership Council
This Council works to raise awareness among young people, especially young women of color, about the need for HIV prevention efforts for themselves and other young people, to advocate for the inclusion of young women of color in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of HIV prevention programs, and to empower other young women of color to get involved in their local communities.
YouthResource
Is created by and for GLBTQ youth and offers support, community, resources, and peer-to-peer education about sexual health and other issues of concern to GLBTQ youth.
The Gay And Lesbian National Hotline
1-888-THE-GLNH (1-888-843-4564)
Monday – Friday 4pm-midnight and Saturday noon-5pm EST
Offers peer-counseling, information and referrals
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE or 1-800-787-3224 from a TTY for local resources and confidential counseling. For emergencies, please contact your local police at 911.
National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Hotline
1-800-662-HELP (1-800-662-4357)
This 24-hour hotline provides information on alcohol and drug abuse, with a staff of trained counselors and referral service for local treatment options. Spanish language option available.
National Runaway Switchboard
1-800-621-4000
This 24-hour hotline offers crisis counseling and information referral. In addition, it provides information about various programs for runaways, like free bus rides home.
National Suicide Hotline
1-800-SUICIDE (800-784-2433)
Trained volunteers and professional counselors there to listen.
Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
1-800-656-HOPE
A 24 hour national hotline for survivors of sexual assault. Call for support and counseling.
Choices Campus Community
A project of the feminist majority leadership alliances, this site provides information for the pro-choice college activist.
Choice USA
An organization that mobilizes and provides ongoing support to the diverse, upcoming generation of leaders who promote and protect reproductive choice both now and in the future.
Girls, Inc.
A national nonprofit youth organization dedicated to inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold.
Mana
A national Latina organization, this site offers information on women’s civil rights, volunteerism, mentoring and education.
National Abortion Federation
The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional associaton of abortion providers in the United States and Canada. NAF’s mission is to keep abortion safe, legal, and accessible. NAF’s national toll-free Hotline (1-800-772-9100) provides confidental, non-biased information in both English and Spanish about abortion and referrals to qualified providers in your area.
NAACP
This site provides information on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization that strives to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority groups citizens of the United States and eliminate race prejudice.
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)
An organization to build an APA women’s movement among those who believe in advancing social justice, and addressing the concerns and increasing the rights of APA women and girls.
National Council of La Raza
Learn about NCLR, a national organization established to reduce poverty and discrimination, and improve life opportunities, for Hispanic Americans.
National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
This site gives information on a non-profit, membership organization dedicated to improving the lives of African American women, their families and communities.
National Latina Health Network
They address critical health concerns affecting Latinas and their families. They promote leadership, advocacy, community health partnerships, and initiatives through which education and outreach efforts help foster well-being and healthy behaviors and attitudes within the nation’s Latino communities.
National Women’s Alliance
A multi-issue human rights and social justice organization devoted to addressing the intersections of race, class, gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and other markers of difference.
Polaris Project Action Center
Polaris Project is non-profit organization combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery. We work with victims of all forms of human trafficking, including sex trafficking and labor trafficking, U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, men and women, and adults and children. The Polaris Project Action Center is a site for you to find out about the reality of human trafficking and modern-day slavery in the U.S., get up to date information about the issue, and find out how you can make a direct impact on the lives of victims and survivors.
SAWNET – South Asian Women’s Network
A forum for those interested in South Asian women’s issues
The Sojourner Project
This site offers information on “Sojourner to the Past,” a civil rights tour for students and educators.
Teen Voices
The original magazine written by, for and about teenage and young adult women.
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