What do teens in your community need to thrive?
When young people have access to honest information, real resources, and meaningful opportunities to lead, they build confidence, strengthen decision-making skills, learn to advocate for themselves, and develop leadership and career skills they carry into adulthood.
Supporting your teen to understand their health – and how to advocate for themselves and their community in healthcare systems – can start today. We’ve collected trusted sources of information you can access at any time in addition to our programming in the state.
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General Wellness
- Adolescent Development Explained: The Office of Population Affairs worked with the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Adolescent Health to develop this overview of how health changes in the areas of physical, cognitive, emotional, and social, moral/values growth.
- Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM): Resources for Adolescents and Parents: Dedicated to advancing the health and well-being of adolescents, SAHM provides resources for teens and parents to address unique health needs for this stage of development, including mental health, sexual health, and substance use.
- Healthy Teen Network: Promotes better outcomes for adolescents and young adults by advancing social change, cultivating innovation, and strengthening youth-supporting professionals and n organizations.
- US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)- Office of Adolescent Health: The Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of adolescents to enable them to become healthy, productive adults.
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)- Healthy You!: CDC promotes the health and well-being of children and adolescents to enable them to become healthy and productive adults.
Mental Wellness and Safe Relationships
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Determining whether certain behavior is normal or a symptom of a mental health condition can be difficult. Learn when to ask for help, how to talk to your friends and family about mental health, and more.
- STOMP Out Bullying®: As the leading national anti-bullying and cyberbullying organization for kids and teens in the U.S., STOMP Out Bullying has collected resources to help parents support their children free from the pain of bullying.
Reproductive Health
- CHART Curricula: Access information about THAR’s sister organization Teen Health Mississippi’s Draw the Line/Respect the Line and Reducing the Risk abstinence-plus curricula, including the objectives and topics in each lesson.
- Advocates for Youth’s Resources for Parents: Provides information and resources for parents on how they can best support and talk to their children about issues surrounding sexual and reproductive health
- Stayteen.org: This site by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy is a resource for teens who need answers about sexual health, abstinence, and contraception. Resources can be found in both English and Spanish.
Check out – and consider sharing – our Resources for Teens to support their education and development.