(Note: Providing a link does not constitute endorsement of a particular site, nor is the National Campaign responsible for the content or materials posted on other sites.)

Abstinence The Better Choice, Inc. (ABC)
The mission of ABC is to teach children virtues that equip them to make responsible, educated, healthy decisions regarding drugs, alcohol and premarital sex. They produce two curricula - RSVP (Responsible Social Values Program) and C.A.T.S. (Concerned About Teen Sexuality).

Academy for Educational Development
The Academy for Educational Development (AED) is an independent, nonprofit service organization committed to addressing human development needs in the United States and throughout the world.

Add Health
The Add Health site provides researchers with longitudinal data on the health status and health-affecting behavior, both enhancing and detrimental, of adolescents in the U.S. Health is broadly-defined and includes information on physical, mental, emotional and reproductive health.

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina
The Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina (APPCNC) is a public-private partnership that assists individuals, groups, and communities in organizing and implementing programs to prevent adolescent pregnancy.

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Knowledge Path
The Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Knowledge Path is aimed at policymakers, health professionals, and researchers who are interested in tracking timely information on this issue.

Advocates for Youth
Advocates for Youth (AFY) works to increase the opportunities for and abilities of youth to make healthy decisions about sexuality. AFY provides information, education, and advocacy to youth-serving agencies, professionals, policy makers, and the media.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute
The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) seeks to protect and expand the reproductive health choices of all women and men in freedom and dignity. Committed to providing all individuals with access to the information and services they need to exercise their rights and responsibilities concerning sexual activity, reproduction, and family formation, AGI provides the public with data on teen pregnancy and related issues.

Alaska Child Abuse Prevention Network
The Alaska Child Abuse Prevention Network is a statewide prevention initiative working together with the Alaska Children's Trust and community partners to raise awareness about child abuse prevention and opportunities to support families.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is a private, voluntary, nonprofit, national group of professionals providing health care for women.

American Medical Association's Adolescent Health On-line
The American Medical Association's (AMA) Department of Adolescent Health is pleased to provide this resource for information on adolescent health issues to health care providers who offer services to adolescents.

American Social Health Association (ASHA)
The mission of the ASHA is to stop sexually transmitted diseases and their harmful consequences to individuals, families and communities.

ASPIRA
ASPIRA -- whose logo reads "an investment in Latino Youth" -- offers a variety of programs and services for kids. They also offer programs for parents that focus on education and leadership development.

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs' mission is to provide leadership to assure the health and well being of all women of reproductive age, children and youth, including those with special health care needs, and their families.

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)
ARHP is an interdisciplinary medical professional association and its mission is to educate health care professionals and the public on family planning, contraception, and other reproductive health issues.

Best Friends Foundation
Best Friends is a youth development program with a character building curriculum for girls in grades 5-12 with messages of abstinence from sex, drugs and alcohol.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has provided one-to-one mentoring relationships between adult volunteers and youth at risk since 1904. This national website includes a listing of all BB/BS agencies in the United States.

Boys and Girls Clubs of America
This site is a nationwide affiliation of local, autonomous organizations and Boys & Girls Clubs working to help youth from all backgrounds, with special concern for those from disadvantaged circumstances, to become responsible citizens and leaders. On this national website, listings for local chapters are provided.

Boy Scouts of America
The purpose of the Boy Scouts of America is to provide an educational program for boys and young adults to build character, to train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and to develop personal fitness.

Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle is a citywide campaign to reduce teen pregnancy in Hartford, Connecticut.

Bridgeway Homes
Bridgeway Homes is a group of residential facilities in Lakewood, Colorado, that provides education and support for pregnant and parenting teenagers.

The Brooking's Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative
In 2002, Congress must reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of related programs that were created or dramatically altered by the landmark welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996. And even before then, Congress will be considering tax cuts that have important implications for low-income families. The Brookings Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative is intended to inform these critical policy debates in several diverse - but related - ways.

California Family Health Council
The California Family Health Council is a nonprofit organization working to improve the health of California families by increasing access to family planning, improving reproductive health care, and ensuring access to health services.

Camp Fire Boys and Girls
The mission of the Campfire Boys and Girls is to provide, through a program of informal education, opportunities for youth to realize their potential and to function effectively as caring, self-directed individuals responsible to themselves and to others.

Campaign for Our Children (CFOC)
The CFOC is a Maryland-based non-profit, national organization committed to reducing teen pregnancies by promoting the continuation of sexual abstinence among pre-sexually active children. The program integrates the efforts of mass media advertising, interactive media, and public relations with school programs and counseling to influence and change attitudes about sex.

Catawba County, North Carolina Social Services
In 1987, Catawba County Social Services created a teen pregnancy prevention program that offers sustained targeted services to youth at risk of early sexual activity. Their abstinence-based TEEN UP program encourages responsible decision making on topics such as sexual activity, peer pressure, and career choices.

Catholic Charities USA
The mission of Catholic Charities USA is to provide service to people in need, to advocate for justice in social structures, and to call the entire Church and people of goodwill to do the same.

Catholics for a Free Choice
Cathloics for a Free Coice is an independent, non-profit organization engaged in research, policy analysis, education and advocacy on issues of gender equality and reproductive health.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Division of Adolescent and School Health
The mission of the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) is to identify the highest priority health risks among youth; monitor the incidence and prevalence of those risks; implement national programs to prevent risks; and evaluate and improve those programs. The CDC also offers an information line on sexually transmitted diseases at 800-227-8922.

Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
CLASP is a national non-profit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the poor. Through education, policy research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic security of low-income families with children and secure access for low-income persons to our civil justice system.

Central New York Council on Adolescent Pregnancy (CNYCAP)
CNYCAP is a coalition of agencies concerned about pregnancy and parenthood during adolescence.

ChildStats.Gov
ChildStats.Gov is the official website of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. In keeping with the forum's philosophy to foster coordination, collaboration, and integration of collection and reporting of Federal data on child and family issues and conditions, this site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families.

Child Trends, Inc.
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children and families. It has an extensive list of publications related to teenage pregnancy, including Facts at a Glance, an annual report summarizing the most recent national, state, and urban data on teen births.

Child Welfare League of America
The Florence Crittenton Division Adolescent Pregnancy and Prevention Services of the Child Welfare League of America focuses on preventing adolescent pregnancy, providing services to pregnant and parenting teens and motivating the public to actively seek solutions to the problems of adolescent pregnancy and parenting.

Children Now
Children Now is a non-profit, independent voice for children, working to translate the nation's committment to children and families into action. With particular concern for those who are poor or at risk, Children Now is committed to improving conditions for all children.

Children's Service Society of Wisconsin

Children's Service Society of Wisconsin was established to provide homes for orphaned and abandoned children.

Children's Express
Children's Express (CE) is a national, nonprofit youth development and leadership organization that uses oral journalism to give children a significant voice in the world. CE's weekly national column is researched, reported and edited by children and adolescents for audiences of all ages and is syndicated to newspapers around the country.

City Kids Foundation
The City Kids Foundation works to teach young people problem-solving and decision-making processes that include themselves as part of the solution. They operate programs that focus on self-esteem, health and education, including teaching kids to communicate positive values to their peers.

Communities in Schools, Inc
The mission of Communities in Schools, Incorporated is to champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people learn, stay in school, and prepare for life.

Council of Chief State School Officers
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a nationwide, nonprofit organization that represents chief education administrators, and works on behalf of the state agencies that have primary authority for education in each state.

Covenant House
Covenant House is the largest privately-funded childcare agency in the United States providing shelter and countless services to homeless and runaway youth. The Covenant House Nineline (800-999-9999) receives crisis calls from young people all over the United States who need immediate help and feel they have nowhere else to turn.

DC Action for Children
DC Action for Children is an independent non-profit, multi-issue advocacy organization founded in 1992 and dedicated to improving conditions for children and families in our Nation's Capitol.

DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The mission of the DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is to cut DC's teen pregnancy rate by 50% by 2005.

dr.Drew.com
drDrew.com is a website with information from doctors and health institutions, as well as comments and stories from celebrities and other online community members.

Emergency Contraception World Wide Web Server
The Emergency Contraception World Wide Web server, operated by the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, is designed to provide information about emergency contraception derived from medical literature and a directory of clinicians willing to provide emergency contraceptives.

ETR Associates
The mission of ETR Associates is to enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and communities by providing leadership, educational resources, training, and research in health promotion with an emphasis on sexuality and health education.

FACT - Families Actively Communicating Together
FACT began in Cowley County, Kansas 1991 with a coalition of interested people throughout the county who came together for the purpose of reducing the teen pregnancy rate in Cowley County.

Family and Youth Services Bureau
The mission of the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is to provide national leadership on youth issues and to assist individuals and organizations in providing effective, comprehensive services for youth in at-risk situations and their families.

Family Health Council, Inc.
Founded in 1971, Family Health Council (FHC) operates medical offices and partners with more than 20 other health care services to provide health care at more than 70 sites in 23 counties of western Pennsylvania.

Family Planning Association of Maine
The Family Planning Association of Maine's mission is to prevent unintended pregnancy and too-early parenting through human sexuality education K-12.

Family Planning Council
The Family Planning Council in Pennsylvania believes that every individual must have access to health care information and services so they can make healthy decisions.

Family Research Council
The Family Research Council (FRC) is an independent non-profit research and educational organization dedicated to ensuring that the interests of the family are considered and respected in the formation of public policy. FRC promotes sexual abstinence among unmarried people, particularly teenagers, in an attempt to help young people gain the greatest physical and emotional health benefits possible.

Focus on The Family
Focus on the Family is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the home.

Freedom Channel
Freedom Channel is a nonprofit, nonpartisan site that offers voters and the media video views of candidates and issue groups. It allows users to dial up the candidates they are interested in, on the issues they care about, all at times of their own choosing.

The Georgia Department of Health
The mission of the Georgia Department of Health is to promote and protect the health of people in Georgia wherever they live, work, and play. They unite with individuals, families, communities to improve their health and enhance their quality of life.

Get Real about Teen Pregnancy
Get Real About Teen Pregnancy is a public education campaign on teen pregnancy prevention in the state of California.

Girls Inc.
Girls Incorporated is a historic national youth organization dedicated to helping every girl become strong, smart and bold. Their educational programs aim to help girls confront subtle societal messages about their value and potential, and to prepare them to lead successful, independent and complete lives.

Girl Power!
Girl Power! is a national public education campaign sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help encourage and empower 9- to 14- year old girls to make the most of their lives. Girl Power! seeks to reinforce and sustain positive values among girls ages 9-14 by targeting health messages to the unique needs, interests, and challenges of girls.

Girl Scouts of the USA
Girl Scouts is committed to helping all girls from every background to develop the confidence, determination, and skills needed to thrive in today's world.

Harvard Center for Children's Health (HCCH)
The HCCH is working to promote collaboration among researchers, policy makers, community providers, families and business leaders to develop and implement strategies that will positively affect the lives of children, from infancy through adolescence.

Heritage Foundation
Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute -- a think tank -- whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

HealthPower Online
A non-profit corporation committed to improving the health and longevity of people of color through health Information; health promotion; technical advice and assistance to organizations; and partnerships and networking.

Idaho's District Three Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The Campaign's mission is to prevent teen pregnancy, while supporting community values and promoting activities that are consistent with a pregnancy-free adolescence.

Idaho's Governor's Council on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
The Council's mission is to delay the onset of sexual activity by increasing the number of teens choosing abstinence.

Institute for Youth Development
The Institute for Development's web page offers information on helping youth avoid unhealthy risk behaviors. It includes tips for parents, government links, statistics, opinion pieces, news releases, and congressional testimony.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization established with the assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is dedicated to helping the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies. It was created to help ease increasing problems faced by libraries seeking to provide adequate stack space for the long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. The basic idea was to convert the back issues of paper journals into electronic formats that would allow savings in space (and in capital costs associated with that space) while simultaneously improving access to the journal content.

Just the Facts
Just the Facts guides present the latest research on trends in sexual behavior in a fact-by-fact format designed to be read by concerned adolescents and parents, as well as health and education professionals. Full bibliographic information is provided for each fact, making the guides an excellent starting point for more in-depth research into trends in fertility, contraception, pregnancy, childbearing, and STDs. Two guides of interest include: 1) Just the Facts: What Science Has Found Out About Teenage Sexuality and Pregnancy in the U.S. (1998, book and CD ROM). This is designed especially for older teens, who will enjoy the bold clarity of the book's presentation and the interactive features of the CD ROM version; and 2) Just the Facts: Family Planning and Fertility in the U.S. (1998, book).

The Just the Facts guides are produced by Sociometrics, an organization that combines research and practice to promote adolescent reproductive health. Questions? Send an e-mail to socio@socio.com or call (650) 949-3282 x236 or x211.

Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report
Produced by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Daily Reproductive Health Report is a free online service that highlights daily news coverage of reproductive health issues. It includes legislative, political, legal, scientific, and business developments drawn from more than 300 news sources from around the country.

Kentucky Coalition on Teenage Pregnancy
The Kentucky Coalition on Teenage Pregnancy is a statewide network dedicated to provide support for members to facilitate their roles in addressing the complex issues of teen pregnancy, with prevention being a primary goal.

Kids Count
KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.

Kids Health.Org
KidsHealth.org is devoted to providing health information for parents, teens, and kids. Created by the medical professionals at the Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth has information on infections, behavior & emotions, food & fitness, surgeries, and growing up healthy.

Latino Issues Forum
Latino Issues Forum is dedicated to advancing new and innovative public policy solutions for a better, more equitable and prosperous society.

Lions Club International
Lion Clubs are community service clubs, dedicated to the idea that the men and women who live in a community are in the best position to know who needs help and why. More than 44,000 strong, these local clubs have 1.4 million members in more than 180 countries and areas. They offer a variety of programs and activities for youth and are committed to help young people become responsible adult citizens and community leaders.

Making the Grade
Making the Grade (MTG) is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that supports state and local partnerships to establish school-based health centers. Specifically, they provides technical assistance on the organization, delivery, and financing of school-based health care to its grantees and general public.

March of Dimes
The March of Dimes is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of babies by reducing birth defects and infant mortality.

Maryland Governor's Office on Children, Youth and Families
The Maryland Governor's Office on Children Youth and Families runs the Council on Adolescent Pregnancy (GCAP) which seeks to reduce teen pregnancy in the state of Maryland. GCAP provides technical assistance, funding, and advocacy related to the prevention of teen pregnancy and support for pregnant and parenting teens.

Media Works, Inc.
Media Works is a nonprofit production company that produces health-related videos and guides for young people and their families. The website features information about HIV, sexuality, and parent-child communication.

Medical Institute for Sexual Health
The mission of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health is to confront the worldwide epidemics of sexually transmitted disease and non-marital pregnancy with incisive health care data.

Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention and Parenting (MOAPPP)
The mission of MOAPPP is to strengthen policies and programs related to adolescent pregnancy prevention, pregnancy care, and parenting.

C.S. Mott Foundation
The Mott Foundation is a grant making organization which, under their poverty program, addresses teen pregnancy prevention. This area focuses on stratgies for primary teenage pregnancy prevention - reducing first births to adolescents - as a means to promote responsible parenthood and healthy families.

Ms. Foundation for Women
The Ms. Foundation for Women is a national, multi-issue, public women's fund that supports the efforts of women and girls to govern their own lives and influence the world around them.

National Abstinence Clearinghouse
The goal of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse is to promote the appreciation for and practice of sexual abstinence until marriage through the distribution of age appropriate materials.

National Asian Women's Health Organization
The National Asian Women's Health Organization (NAWHO) is a non-profit, community-based advocacy organization with a mission to improve the health status of Asian women and families through research, education, leadership and public policy programs. They also seek to address broader social justice issues for under-served communities of the entire American population.

National Assembly
The National Assembly is an association of national voluntary health and human service organizations. Its mission is to advance the effectiveness of each member and to provide collective leadership in the area of health and human services. Its affinity group is the National Collaboration for Youth (NCY) which consists of 23 of the most active national youth development agencies in the United States.

National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care is dedicated to promoting accessible, quality school-based primary health and mental health care for children and youth through interdisciplinary and collaborative efforts.

National Association of County and City Health Officials
The National Association of County and City Health Officials, the voice of the nation's 3,000 local health departments, is dedicated to improving the health of people and communities by assuring an effective local public health system.

National Association of Midnight Basketball Leagues, Inc. The Midnight Basketball League is a community based, intervention and outreach program that offers a safe, constructive alternative for at-risk young adults between the ages of 17 and 25 during the "high crime" hours of 10:00 pm and 2:00 am. Visit the website for an official roster of midnight basketball locations.

National Center for Children in Poverty
The mission of the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is to identify and promote strategies that reduce the incidence of young child poverty in the United States and that improve the life chances of the millions of children under age six who are growing up poor.

National Center for Health Statistics
The National Center for Health Statistics of the CDC, is the nation's principal health statistics agency. The National Survey of Family Growth conducted by the Center makes available national estimates of factors affecting birth and pregnancy rates in the United States.

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
The National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, a research center of Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, provides national leadership to the maternal and child health community in three key areas of program development, policy analysis and education, and state-of-the-art knowledge to improve the health and well-being of the nation's children and families.

National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth (NCFY)
NCFY is the Family and Youth Services Bureau's (FYSB's) central resource on youth and family policy and practice. On this site, you will find information on new youth- and family-related materials and initiatives, NCFY publications for downloading, and more.

National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse
The National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse is a nationwide commitment to the prevention of child abuse in all its forms.

National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. is a nonprofit, membership organization dedicated to improving the lives of African American women, their families, and communities.

National Directory of Children, Youth and Family Services
the National Directory of Children, Youth and Families Services, is the most comprehensive National Guide for Professionals who help troubled children, youth and their families.

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA)
NFPRHA is a nonprofit, membership organization established to improve and expand the delivery of voluntary, comprehensive, culturally-sensitive family planning and reproductive health care services for all.

National Fatherhood Initiative
The mission of the National Fatherhood Initiative is to increase the number of fathers who are involved in and committed to the lives of their children.

National Four-H Council
The National Four-H Council is a non-profit educational organization which focuses on diverse groups of youth in all geographic locales. It helps provide experiential coeducational programs and activities to young people in collaboration with the youth development education initiatives of the Cooperative Extension System of USDA, land grant universities, and county government.

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
NIDA's mission is to lead the nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction. By strategically supporting and conducting research across a broad range of disciplines, NIDA seeks to ensure the rapid and effective use of the results of that research to significantly improve drug abuse and addiction prevention, treatment, and policy.

National Network for Youth
The National Network for Youth is dedicated to ensuring that young people can be safe and grow up to lead healthy and productive lives. With more than 400 direct members and 1,500 constituents involved in its region and state networks, the National Network informs public policy, educates the public, and strengthens the field of youth work.

National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention (NOAPPP)
NOAPPP's mission is to provide leadership, education, training, information and advocacy resources, and support to practitioners in the field. Believing that the entire community is essential to successfully addressing adolescent pregnancy, NOAPPP provides a forum where divergent viewpoints can be expressed and valued and common ground can be cleared for action.

National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Research Center
The National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Research Center is a collaborative effort by the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, and the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota to provide interdisciplinary training to pregnancy prevention researchers and practitioners.

National Urban League
Founded in 1910, the National Urban League is a social service and civil rights organization. Its mission is to assist African Americans in the achievement of social and economic equality. It offers a variety of programs and educational services for young people.

National Women's Health Information Center
The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's health information resources. This site is designed to help you link to, read, and download a wide variety of women's health-related material developed by various government and private sector agencies.

Nevada: Office of the Attorney General
The Office of the Attorney General for the state of Nevada offers on this site a plan for action in responding to teen pregnancy in Nevada.

New Futures, Inc.
New Futures High School is an alternative school for pregnant and parenting teens in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Not Me, Not Now
Not Me, Not Now of Monroe County, New York is a program that strives to make adolescents, parents and the community more aware of the consequences of teen pregnancy. Their " kids teaching kids " approach shows 9 to 14 year olds how to resist peer and social pressure.

Office of Population Affairs
The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Its overarching mission is to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy. OPA administers Titles X and XX, the National Family Planning Program and the Adolescent Family Life Program.

One to One/The National Mentoring Partnership
The One to One/National Mentoring Partnership is an advocate for the expansion of mentoring and a resource for mentors and mentoring initiatives nationwide. Their goal is to have 2 million of America's children in responsible mentoring relationships.

Operation Graduation
Operation Graduation is a public service advertising campaign developed by the Ad Council and the US Army to demonstrate the importance of staying in school and obtaining a high school diploma.

Oregon Department of Human Services Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
Website describes the state efforts in Oregon to reduce teen pregnancy.

Parents as Teachers National Center
Parents as Teachers is a family education and support program for families with children from birth to age 5. One adaptation of the model deals exclusively with teen parents and the challenges they face.

PASHA (Program Archive on Sexuality, Health and Adolescence)
PASHA is a collection of 23 teen pregnancy and STD/HIV/AIDS prevention programs selected by a scientist expert panel for their demonstrated effectiveness in changing sexual risk behavior among teens. Each program is available in a stand-alone kit which includes user-friendly instructions and all materials necessary for implementation. The program kits are produced by Sociometrics, an organization that combines research and practice to promote adolescent reproductive health.

Pathfinder International: Focus on Young Adults
Pathfinder's FOCUS on Young Adults Program strives to improve the health and well-being of young adults in developing countries through the creation and strengthening of effective reproductive health initiatives.

Phantom Projects Educational Theatre Group
Based in California, Phantom Projects Educational Theatre Group was founded in 1997 by Steve Cisneros, then 17. The groups's first production that continues to run is an abstinence program entitled "No Way to Treat a Lady".

Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (PPAU)
The mission of PPAU is to provide affordable and confidential reproductive health care, education, and counseling to teens and adults. In addition, they provide education, outreach, volunteer training and advocate for reproductive rights.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)
PPFA is the world's oldest and largest voluntary family planning organization. They believe that everyone has the right to choose when or whether to have a child -- and that every child should be wanted and loved. They also have an information line about contraception at 800-230-7526.

Planned Parenthood of Connecticut
The mission of Planned Parenthood of Connecticut is to protect the right of all individuals to manage their own fertility and sexual health and to ensure access to the services, education, and information to realize that right.

Planned Parenthood of New York City
Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) offers comprehensive family planning and reproductive health services and sexuality education throughout New York City. They are especially committed to providing clinical services and education to teens and low-income women.

Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties
The mission of Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties is to ensure broad public access to reproductive health care through direct service, education, and advocacy. Please also visit their Spanish-language website at: www.tuplannedparenthood.org.

Population Action International
Population Action International (PAI) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that seeks to increase political and financial support for effective population policies and programs grounded in individual rights.

Project Cuddle
Project Cuddle is a baby rescue program that provides support for women and teens contemplating abandoning their infants.

Project Reality
The mission of Project Reality is to help adolescents choose abstinence until marriage as the healthiest lifestyle through curricula, classroom presentations, youth rallies, assemblies, workshops and conferences.

RECAPP - Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Created by ETR Associates, a private non-profit health education promotion organization, RECAPP is designed to serve as a bridge between front line educators and researchers who are analyzing how educational and youth development programs can best make an impact on the rate of teen pregnancy.

Religion, Culture, and Family Project
The Religion, Culture, and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School brings together over a hundred leading Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and other religious scholars of both liberal and conservative convictions to produce a major series of books on religion and the family together with conferences, articles, and media projects.

Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO)
The RHO website is designed for reproductive health program managers and decision-makers working in developing countries and low-resource settings.

Safer Child, Inc.
Safer Child, Inc., is a nonprofit referral and information resource for parents and caregivers on all topics related to child health, welfare, and safety. The web site includes more than 150 pages of information and thousands of links.

Search Institute
The Search Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to contributing to the knowledge base about youth development and to translating research on children and youth into practical ideas, tools, services, and resources for families, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, and communities.

Sex Etc.
Sex Etc. is an award winning teen-produced online newsletter and website that answers questions from teens on love, sex, abstinence, contraception, AIDS, STDs, drugs, drinking, violence, just to name a few. There are also plenty of places to register your opinion and ask questions, as well as links to other sites on the web.

SexualityandU.CA
Produced by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada, this website is devoted to sexuality education and information.

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
SIECUS is a national, private nonprofit advocacy organization which affirms that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of living. SIECUS develops, collects, and disseminates information, promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices.

Society for Adolescent Medicine
The Society for Adolescent Medicine is a multidisciplinary organization of professionals committed to improving the physical and psychosocial health and well being of all adolescents.

Sociometrics Corporation
Sociometrics Corporation is a research and development firm specializing in social science research applications. Among the goals, Sociometrics seeks to facilitate public access to the best data capable of shedding light on contemporary social problems.

South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The mission of the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is to promote and facilitate the prevention of adolescent pregnancy in South Carolina.

Summit Fund of Washington
The Summit Fund of Washington is a private foundation that directs funds to preventing teen pregnancy in Washington, DC.

Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues is a national initiative by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation to encourage parents to talk with their children earlier and more often about tough issues like sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, alcohol, and drug abuse.

Teen Outreach Program
The Teen Outreach Program (TOP) is a program aimed at fostering the positive development of adolescents. TOP has been evaluated and shown to be effective at preventing risk factors that increase drop out rates, academic failure, teen pregnancy and other negative behaviors among program participants.

Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Initiative
The overall goal of the California Wellness Foundation's Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Initiative is to decrease the incidence of teenage pregnancies by increasing the proportion of teens who delay the initiation of sexual activity and/or effectively use contraception.

Texas Department of Health -- Adolescent Health Page
To protect and promote the health of adolescents in the state of Texas.

Title V information System
The Title V Information System (Title V IS) electronically captures data from annual Title V Block Grant applications and reports submitted by all U.S. States, Territories, and Jurisdictions and provides information on key measures of maternal and child health (MCH) in the United States.

True Love Waits
True Love Waits is an international campaign that challenges teenagers and college students to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.

Truth for Youth
Truth for YouthT is an advocacy campaign supported by a coalition of health and sexuality professionals and sponsored by DUREX Consumer Products. Truth for YouthT believes in comprehensive sexuality education that promotes abstinence as the best and safest choice, and provides useful information about birth control and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases(STDs).

United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. (UNITY)
UNITY is a national network which promotes personal development, citizenship and leadership among Native American Youth.

United States Department of Agriculture Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Initiative
The USDA's Children, Youth and Families at Risk Initiative works through land grant university extension services to provide resources to community-based education programs for at-risk children, youth, and families.

Virginia Comprehensive Health Education Training and Resource Center
The Center acquires and houses a variety of research-based materials and resources for use in the implementation of comprehensive school health education.

Welfare Reform Academy
The School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland created the Welfare Reform Academy to help state and local officials, private social service providers, and other interested parties take advantage of the new welfare reform law by providing training in specific areas. The academy provides training in program design, implementation, and evaluation for the new Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Food Stamp, Medicaid, job training, child care, child welfare, and child support programs.

Welfare to Work Partnership
The Welfare to Work Partnership is an independent, nonprofit organization that encourages businesses to hire individuals from public assistance without displacing current workers.

West Virginia Bureau of Public Health's Adolescent Health Initiative
The mission of West Virginia's Adolescent Health Initiative is to reduce at risk behavior among teenagers by providing technical assistance. Their Health Modules are self-instruction packets on how to teach a subject or conduct a preventive health activity.

Wisconsin Teen Pregnancy Prevention Site
In conjunction with Governor Tommy Thompson's proclamation of May as Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, this site is designed to give Wisconsin communities ideas for teen pregnancy prevention activities and initiatives for May and beyond.

Women's Health Division of the Texas Department of Health
The Women's Health Division of the Texas Department of Health provides information on teen pregnancy prevention efforts in the state of Texas as well as information on women's health in general.

WomensNewsLink.com
WomensNewsLink.com is an online news syndicate for women and girls.

Women's Sports Foundation
The Women's Sports Foundation is a national nonprofit, member-based organization dedicated to increasing opportunities for girls and women in sports and fitness through education, advocacy, recognition, and grants.

Young Women's Health Page
Hosted by the Center for Women's Health at the Oregon Health Sciences University, this webpage was created by twelve teenage girls. Operating under the motto "The More We Know, The Safer We Are," the site provides information and links on physical health, mental health, and sexuality.

YouthBuild
YouthBuild is a youth and community development program as well as an alternative school. YouthBuild, designed to run on a 12-month cycle, offers job training, education, counseling, and leadership development opportunities to unemployed and out-of-school young adults, ages 16-24, through the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing in their own communities.

Youth Info
The purpose of Youth Info is to highlight the most current information on America's adolescents from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, other federal agencies, private foundations and other organizations.

Youth Noise
The mission of Youth Noise is to connect, inform, and empower youth to improve their own lives and the lives of other young people through philanthropy, service and policy.

Zero Adolescent Pregnancy (ZAP)
Zero Adolescent Pregnancy is a prevention program based in Cortland, New York. Their goal is to reduce teen pregnancy through education, peer networking, and parent empowerment.