Resources

Issues/Topics
Body Image
Health
Violence

Additional Resources
AFY Websites and Programs
Books
Hotlines
Organizations

BODY IMAGE

About-Face
Promotes positive self-esteem in girls and women of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds through a spirited approach to media education, outreach and activism.

Adios Barbie
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.

HEALTH

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.

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.

Scarlet Teen
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.

VIOLENCE

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

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

Advocates for Youth: Youth Action Center
Provides sexual and reproductive health information, important news that affects teens today, and ways for youth to get involved in their community.

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.

BOOKS

A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: American Women Speak Out on Eating Problems
By Becky W. Thompson
This book shows us how race, class, sexuality, and nationality can shape women's eating problems. Based on in-depth life history interviews with African-American, Latina, and lesbian women, her book chronicles the effects of racism, poverty, sexism, acculturation, and sexual abuse on women's bodies and eating patterns.

Body Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity
Editor: Ophira Edut
Body Outlaws offers stories by those who have chosen to ignore, subvert or redefine the dominant beauty standard in order to feel at home in their bodies. In doing so, they expand the national dialogue on body image to include race, ethnicity, sexuality and power -- issues that, while often overlooked, are intimately linked to how women feel about their bodies.

Changing Bodies, Changing Lives
By Ruth Bell Alexander
Provides information about health and sexuality for teenagers. Presented here is the latest information on the physical and emotional aspects of puberty, sexuality, healthcare, sexually transmitted diseases, safer sex and birth control, living with violence, mental health, and eating disorders. Artwork by and quotations from teenagers about their experiences in these areas bring the content to life

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Editors: Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman
A collection of a diverse, lively group of emerging writers who speak to their experiences being women and girls of color in today’s world.

Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl
By Esther Drill
This sumptuously colorful and solid puberty guide for girls gets high marks for comprehensiveness and attention to detail about physical development, sex, emotions, drugs, family, friends, relationships, school, spirituality, politics and activism, "being yourself," and money. The main messages concern accepting diversity in bodies and lifestyles, taking responsibility, and finding help when you need it.

Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation (2nd Edition)
By Barbara Findlen
This is an anthology of 28 essays in which "Generation X" ("twentysomething") women explore their concepts of feminism. Within the essays are various stories of how these young women awakened to the realization of sexism, racism, or classism through personal experience.

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
By Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
This book urges young women to pick up where their mothers, aunts, and adult mentors left off. Their challenge? To fulfill feminism's promise of justice, equality, and sexual freedom for all. The writers show the vibrance with which the movement has evolved, detail important political goals that still need to be achieved, and spell out what a world with true equality would look like.

My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out
Editor: Iris Jacob
A collection of essays and poems detailing the coming-of-age experiences of a diverse group of young women addressing family, friendships, sex, love, loss, identity, racism, and oppression.

Our Bodies Ourselves For The New Century
By The Boston Women's Health Collective
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century reflects the vital health concerns of women of diverse ages, ethnic and racial backgrounds, and sexual orientations. In these pages, women will find new information, resources (including web sites!), and personal support for the decisions that will shape their health - and their lives - from living a healthy life, to relationships and sexuality, to child-bearing, growing older, dealing with the medical system, and organizing for change.

Real Girl/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self
By Heather M. Gray and Samantha Phillips
The authors take every societal message that a young girl gets and deal with them honestly and factually. Each chapter discusses an issue such as body image, eating disorders, safe sex, and feminism, and then lists resources-Web sites, magazines, organizations, and quotes from over seventy teen girls discussing their own experiences.

YELL-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American
By Vickie Nam
Young Asian American girls come together for the first time and engage in dynamic conversations about the unique challenges they face in their lives. These essays, poems, and stories tackle such complex issues as dual identities, culture clashes, family matters, body image, and the need to find one's voice.

HOTLINES

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.

ORGANIZATIONS

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.

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.