Health Care Resources for Youth
The GIANT Room in collaboration with Lysol® has created a free digital-resource series of Minilab Science Kits accessible to educators, co-designed by teachers, families, and students. The HERE for Healthy Schools program is intended to promote healthy learning about microbes and germs to reduce school absenteeism.
Activities are designed for children in grades 1 and 2.
The Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University offers research-based intervention, education, and policy initiatives to support families and youth. These initiatives promote well-being and offer preventative measures to the health and mental risks faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified (LGBTQ) children and youth.
The Family Acceptance Project puts research into practice and offers a myriad of resources to both families and educational providers in order to build greater inclusivity and acceptance.
In commemoration of Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health America (MHA) sponsored the creation of the 2024 BIPOC Mental Health Toolkit.
This toolkit offers fact sheets, outreach ideas, sample newsletters, social media tools, and more to better support youth in our communities.
In commemoration of Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health America (MHA) sponsored the creation of the 2024 BIPOC Mental Health Toolkit.
This toolkit offers fact sheets, outreach ideas, sample newsletters, social media tools, and more to better support youth in our communities.
Resources for preventing childhood obesity and for improving care of children who are overweight.
The resources in this toolkit are designed to help primary care practice teams provide coordinated, integrated and multidisciplinary services to both prevent obesity and improve care for children who are already overweight or at risk for becoming overweight. Includes tools for prevention, assessment and diagnosis, management and treatment and community resources.
Occupational therapists and trauma-informed teachers weigh in on how to create sensory tools and spaces with what you have at home.
Mindheart has created this short book to support and reassure children, under the age of 7, regarding the COVID-19. This book is an invitation for families to discuss the full range of emotions arising from the current situation.
An interactive site for teens that addresses teen dating, relationships, and sex. Teens can create their own videos to post on the site about how they stay a teen. The site also contains a comprehensive list of resources for teens about pregnancy and sexual health.
Activities/games for teens that include: SAT preparation, Math, Language Arts, History, and hands-on projects.
USNews provides a most comprehensive site on choosing a college – from local community colleges to major universities. A “grade point average calculator” lets you calculate the grades you’ll need to get into the college you want. A college personality quiz will help you define who you are and what college is best.
Youngmenshealthsite.org (YMH) is a website produced by the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston. The purpose of the website is to provide carefully researched health information to teenage boys and young men.
This website is centered on teen health and motivation. They aspire to keep teens on a healthy lifestyle track.