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The extensive list of resources below is adapted from an expanded list developed by Advocates for Youth. Listed here are web sites for parents, web sites for teens, helpful books, recommended videos and links to other organizations.

Recommended Web Sites for Parents

Families Are Talking—www.familiesaretalking.org
Parents’ Sex Ed Center—www.advocatesforyouth.org/parents/
Talking with Kids about Tough Issues—www.talkingwithkids.org
The New 3Rs: Rights, Respect, Responsibility— www.New3Rs.info
The Talk Institute—www.thetalkinstitute.com

Recommended Web Sites for Young People

www.teenwire.com Provides accurate information for teens on many different areas of healthy sexuality, in a fun and friendly format.
www.sexetc.org A website and free newsletter produced for teens by teens. Writers take on all different angles of preventing pregnancy and disease transmission.
www.scarleteen.com Sex education for the real world. Offers information and tools for communication with parents and partners.
www.positive.org Coalition for Positive Sexuality gives teens honest information that they need to make responsible decisions about sex and supports them in advocating for honest sex education.
www.iwannaknow.org Sponsored by the American Social Health Association, this site offers information on various topics having to do with healthy sexuality.
www.youthonboard.org Supports youth in becoming change makers by providing young people and adults the tools needed for meaningful partnerships in the community.
www.dosomething.org Do Something supports and encourages young people to make change in the world by “doing something.” This website provides tools, resources and ideas on how to put ideas into action.
www.mtv.com/thinkmtv/sexual_health/ This site offers great links to resources that deal with many facets of sexuality. MTV thinks sexual health is so important that it offers funding for young people to start projects of their own to help promote a positive sexual health message.
www.youthventure.org Encourages young people to fulfill their dreams and make a lasting impact on their school and community.
www.youthinfusion.com Youth Infusion is an organization, created and run by young people, that works to support youth as decision-makers, advocates and community change-agents.

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Recommended Books

All About Sex: A Family Resource on Sex and Sexuality
Ronald Filiberti Moglia & Jon Knowles
Three Rivers Press, 1997
ISBN: 0609801465

Bellybuttons Are Navels
Mark Schoen
Prometheus Books, 1992
ISBN: 0879755857

Beyond the Big Talk: Every Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens from Middle School to High School and Beyond
Debra Haffner
New Market Press, 2002
ISBN: 1557045178

Caution: Do Not Open Until Puberty! An Introduction to Sexuality for Young Adults with Disabilities
Rick Enright
Devinjer House, 1995
ISBN: 0968041507

Did the Sun Shine Before You Were Born? A Sex Education Primer
Sol & Judith Gordon
Aperture, 1974
ISBN: 0893881791

The Family Guide to Sex and Relationships
Richard Walker
Macmillan Publishing USA, 1996
ISBN: 002861433X

Flight of the Stork: What Children Think (and When) About Sex and Family Building
Anne C. Berstein
Perspective Press, 1996
ISBN: 0944934099

From Diapers to Dating: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children
Debra W. Haffner
Newmarket Press, 2000
ISBN: 1557044260

The Go Ask Alice Book of Answers: A Guide to Good Physical, Sexual, and Emotional Health
Columbia University's Health Education Program
Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated, 1998
ISBN: 0805055703

Happy Birth Day!
Robie Harris
Candlewick Press, 2002
ISBN: 0763609749

“But How’d I Get in There in the First Place?”: Talking to Your Young Child about Sex
Deborah Roffman
Perseus Press, 2002
ISBN: 0738205729

How Can You Tell if You’re Really in Love?
Sol Gordon
Adams Media Corporation, 2001
ISBN: 1580624723

How to Talk to Your Children about AIDS
SIECUS, 1994
www.siecus.org

How You Were Born
Joanna Cole Morrow
William & Co., 1994
ISBN: 068812061X

It’s Perfectly Normal: Growing Up, Changing Bodies, Sex and Sexual Health
Robie Harris
Candlewick Press, 1996
ISBN: 1564021599

It’s So Amazing: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies & Families
Robie Harris
Candlewick Press, 2002
ISBN: 0763613215

Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling
Donna Futterman & Caitlin Ryan
Columbia University Press, 1998
ISBN: 0231111916

My Body, My Self for Boys: The What’s Happening to My Body? Workbook
Lynda Madaras & Area Madaras
Newmarket Press, 2000
ISBN: 1557044406

My Body, My Self For Girls: The What’s Happening to My Body? Workbook
Lynda Madaras & Area Madaras
Newmarket Press, 2000
ISBN: 1557044414

Now What Do I Do?
Robert Selverstone
SIECUS, 1996
www.siecus.org

Out With It: Gay and Straight Teens Write about Homosexuality
Paul Fell Cartoons, 1996
ISBN: 0966125606

Period
JoAnn Loulan, Bonnie Lopez & Bonnie Worthen
Book Peddlers, 2001
ISBN: 0916773965

Raising a Child Responsibly in a Sexually Permissive World
Sol Gordon & Judith Gordon
Adams Media Corporation, 1999
ISBN: 1580621775

Raising Sexually Healthy Children: A Loving Guide for Parents, Teachers and Care-Givers
Lynn Leight Morrow
William & Co, 1990
ISBN: 0380708574

Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent’s Guide to Talking Sense about Sex
Deborah Roffman
Perseus Press, 2001
ISBN: 0738205206

The Sex Education Dictionary for Teens and Preteens
Dean Hoch & Nancy Hoch
Landmark Publishing, 1990
ISBN: 0962420905

Sex Stuff for Kids 7-17
Carole Marsh
Gallopade Publishing Group, 1997
ISBN: 0793368901

Sexual Development of Young Children
Virginia Lively & Edwin Lively
Delmar Thomson Learning, 1991
ISBN: 0827341989

Ten Talks Parents Must Have with Their Children about Sex and Character
Pepper Schwartz & Dominic Cappello
Hyperion Press, 2000
ISBN: 0786885483

Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay & Lesbian Youth
Ann Heron
Alyson Publications, 1995
ISBN: 1555832822

What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-up Guide for Parents and Sons
Lynda Madaras
Newmarket Press, 2000
ISBN: 1557044430

What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-up Guide for Parents and Daughters
Lynda Madaras
Newmarket Press, 2000
ISBN: 1557044449

What’s the Big Secret?: Talking About Sex with Boys and Girls
Laurie Krasoy Brown
Little, Brown and Company, 2000
ISBN: 0316101834

When Living Hurts: A Lively What-to-Do Book for Yourself or Someone You Care about Who Feels Discouraged, Sad, Lonely, Hopeless, Angry or Frustrated, Unhappy or Bored, Depressed, Suicidal: For Teenagers and Young Adults
Sol Gordon
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1994
ISBN: 0807405011

When Sex is the Subject: Attitudes and Answers for Young Children
Pamela Wilson
ETR Associates, 1991
ISBN: 1560710640

Words Can Work: When Talking with Kids about Sexual Health
Jeanne Blake
Family Health Productions, Inc., 2004
ISBN: 097531470X

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Recommended Organizations

Advocates for Youth
2000 M Street NW, Suite 750
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202.419.3420
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org

American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Boulevard
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Phone: 847.228.5005
http://www.aap.org

American Association for Health Education
1900 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191-1598
Phone: 703.476.3400
http://www.aahperd.org/aahe/

American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors & Therapists
PO Box 1960
Ashland, VA 23005-1960
Phone: 804.752.0026
http://www.aasect.org

American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists
409 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20024-2188
Phone: 202.638.5577
http://www.acog.org

American Medical Association
515 N. State Street
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: 312.464.5315
http://www.ama-assn.org

American Red Cross, Health & Safety Services
8111 Gatehouse Road, 6th Floor Falls
Church, VA 22042
Phone: 703.206.7421
http://www.redcross.org/services/hss/

American School Health Association
P.O. Box 708
Kent, OH 44240
Phone: 330.678.1601
http://www.ashaweb.org

Children’s Defense Fund
25 E Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202.628.8787
http://www.childrensdefense.org

CDC National Prevention Information Network
P.O. Box 6003
Rockville, MD 20849-6003
Phone: 1.800.458.523
http://www.cdcnpin.org

Family Health Productions
PO Box 1639
Gloucester, MA 01930
Phone 978.282.9970
http://www.abouthealth.com

Girls Incorporated
120 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
Phone: 1.800.374.4475
http://www.girlsinc.org

National Council of La Raza
1111 19th Street NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20009-6207
Phone: 202.785.1670
http://www.nclr.org

National Education Association Health Information Network
1201 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202.822.7570
http://www.neahin.org

National PTA
330 N. Wabash Avenue, Suite 2100
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312.670.6782
http://www.pta.org

Planned Parenthood Federation of America
810 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212.541.7800
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/

Search Institute
700 South Third Street, Suite 210
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612.376.8955
http://www.search-institute.org

Sexuality Information & Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS)
130 West 42nd Street, Suite 350
New York, NY 10036-7802
Phone: 212.819.9770
http://www.siecus.org

YWCA of the U.S.A.
350 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10118
Phone: 212.273.7800
http://www.ywca.org

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