Youth in Crisis

IF YOU NEED EMERGENCY OR IMMEDIATE HELP CALL:

Covenant House
1-800-999-9999

Boys and Girls Town
1-800-448-3000

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-TALK

1-800-SUICIDE

Devozine Health & Help
The purpose of this site is to provide information on health, community service, and crisis issues for teens, such as date rape, emotional health, missions & service, physical health, relationships, self image, substance abuse, and suicide.

TeenCentral.net
This site provides young teens with a place to vent their frustrations, talk about their anxieties, and support one another without outside pressure. A search feature allows to type in thoughts and connect with stories from peers who experienced similar problems. Kids as well as professionals respond to stories, questions and statements. The “teen help line” provides state-by-state addresses and phone numbers of crisis centers.

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
Visitors to this site can find out about and order resources such as publications on teen pregnancy, pamphlets aimed at helping parents communicate with their teens and a Teen in Site page. This page hosts a lot of teen opinion and includes results of weekly surveys that have asked teens about such things as whether they talk to members of their faith community about sex and pregnancy. This site also offers an extensive list of website links.

Helping Hurting Teens (from Ileadyouth.com)
Broken promises, miscommunication, misunderstandings, harsh words, divorce, abuse, hard tests, fights, not fitting in, peer pressure, overlooked feelings, betrayal, being left out . . .

Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools offers research-based practices designed to assist school communities identify these warning signs early and develop prevention, intervention and crisis response plans

Helping Teens Cope with Dating Violence
Intimate partner violence, defined as the emotional, physical or sexual abuse of a victim by a known perpetrator, is a major public health concern affecting an estimated 1.5 million women in the United States each year. The incidence of dating violence among teenage girls is particularly troubling.