Managing Stress: Tips for Teens

• Credible information for teens about stress and how to manage it.

A Dozen Ways to Cope With Stress Resource - English and Spanish

• This infographic resource gives 12 tips on how to cope with stress.​

 

​Above the Influence

• An innovative and interactive website that helps you take a look at yourself. There might come a point when you ask yourself, who am I really? Am I being real? Am I still the kid my parents think I am? And more importantly, who do I want to be?

NIH: Adolescent Brain & Substance Use

• NIH discusses how adolescence is a time of important developmental and social growth. There are many interrelated factors that influence changes in a young person’s brain structure and function, and can have a long-term impact on their body, mind, and mental health. 

NIH (NIDA) Teen Brain Development 

• NIDA explores in this video the intriguing similarities between the processes of brain development and computer programming.

Marijuana: Facts for Teens

Marijuana: Facts for Teens-Spanish

Kids Health

• Support and advice on health, emotions, and life-designed for teens and approved by doctors.

National Highway Traffic Safety Association

• Explore laws regarding distracted driving, drunk and impaired driving, tips for safe and defensive driving, as well as vehicle safety. Be an informed and safe driver and passenger!

• Distracted Driving Fact Card

NIH: Research By Topic

• Part of the National Institutes of Health, NIDA conducts and supports biomedical research to advance the science on substance use and addiction and improve individual and public health. Find more information on drug use, health, and substance use disorders.

National Drug Facts Week

• ​(NDFW) is a national health observance for teens to promote local events that use NIDA science to shatter the myths about drugs. This online guide gives you everything you need to plan, promote, and host your NDFW event.

Operation Prevention

• ​The DEA and Discovery Education have joined forces to combat a growing epidemic of prescription opioid misuse and heroin use nationwide. Operation Prevention’s mission is to educate students about the true impacts of opioids and kick-start lifesaving conversations in the home and classroom.

Teen Dating Violence (CDC)

• The CDC describes Teen Dating Violence and how to prevent it among teens.

• Teen Dating Violence Fact Card

U.S. Surgeon General Advisory on Social Media

• Click above to view our E-News on the U.S. Surgeon Generals Advisory on social media and read the advisory

Youth.Gov

• Youth.Gov offers tips/ resources for Preventing youth suicide, after an attempt, and also groups at risk.

Grief Resource

• This infographic resource offers information/tips on how to support your grieving child and how to support yourself as a grieving teen.