This section features
research, publications and program materials related to youth ages
12 to 18 years old and their families. Topics include adolescents
development, physical and mental health, violence prevention, parent-adolescent
relationships, peer relationships, formal and informal education,
transition from school to work, opportunities for civic engagement,
and community supports for youth.
Advocates
for Youth
Advocates for
Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies
that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about
their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information,
training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations,
policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States
and the developing world.
Institute
for Youth Development
IYD is a non-partisan,
non-profit organization that promotes a comprehensive risk avoidance
message to youth for five harmful risk behaviors that are inextricably
linked: alcohol, drugs, sex, tobacco and violence. IYD believes that
children and teens, provided with consistent and sound messages, are
capable of making positive choices to avoid these risk behaviors altogether,
especially if they are empowered by strong parent and family connections.
Minnesota
Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenting
MOAPPP's mission
is to strengthen policies and programs related to adolescent pregnancy
prevention, adolescent pregnancy care and adolescent parenting in
Minnesota.
Resource
Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
ReCAPP provides
practical tools and information to effectively reduce sexual risk-taking
behaviors. Teachers and health educators will find up-to-date, evaluated
program materials to help with their work with teens.
The
Bridge for Runaway Youth
Providing the
link between youth, parents and the community they offer free and
confidential services grounded in research.
Lessons
from the designated driver campaign
The designated driver
concept is a new component of the nation's comprehensive strategy
for reducing alcohol-related traffic fatalities through prevention,
deterrence and treatment. This paper explains how the designated
driver concept serves as a vehicle for changing social norms;
describes the national designated driver campaign and the
involvement of the public and private sectors; presents public
opinion findings documenting the wide popularity and growing
usage of the designated driver concept; responds to criticisms
raised by advocates of other approaches; extracts seven generalizable
lessons from the designated driver campaign; and applies those
lessons to the issue of teenage alcohol abuse.
Youth
Today
Youth Today
is a national, independent newspaper that is published 10x
per year by the nonprofit American Youth Work Center.
Its readership of 59,000 subscribers includes an eclectic
mix of professionals who work directly with youth or in the
youth services field.
Yellow
Ribbon
Yellow Ribbon is an
outreach program focused on suicide prevention for teens and parents. The
website contains information on depression and suicide and links to training
and information for youth, parents and teachers. It also contains resources
for support.
SA/VE
(Suicide Awareness/Voices of Education)
SA/VE is an organization
focused on raising awareness about depression and suicide for all ages.
The website contains a list of signs and symptoms, and a depression checklist,
along with numerous other resources.
Wacydasp
Wacydasp is a website
containing information on depression and suicide awareness. Washington
County, MN has put this website together, but it contains information and
resources pertinent to everyone.
