Caregiver Resources

A list of BLOOM's trusted resources for more information & support

Caregiver Resources Featured
Bark

Helping families understand and manage the digital devices their kids use every day.

ESRB

Provides information about what’s in a game or app so parents and consumers can make informed choices about which games are right for their family.

Savvy Parents Safe Kids

Teaches and promotes child safety through best practices and prevention programs.

Beheroes411 App

Designed to address specific social, sexual, psychological, and safety situations that young people may face both online and off.

Game Quitters

Video game addiction support.

Center for Humane Technology

Driving a comprehensive shift toward humane technology that supports our well-being, democracy, and shared information environment.

Common Sense Media

Ensuring digital well-being for kids through entertainment and technology recommendations for families and schools, education, and advocacy.

NetSmartz®

Provides age-appropriate videos and activities to help teach children how to be safer online.

Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide for LGBTQIA+ Teens on the Spectrum
By Erin Ekins

An honest guide for LGBTQIA+ autistic teens which gives you all the tools you need to figure out and explore your gender identity and sexuality.

Parenting Safe Children

Educating parents and professionals on how to keep children safe from sexual assault.

Sex, Etc

Helping teens with answers to their question about sex, relationships, pregnancy, STDs, birth control, sexual orientation and more!

Advocates For Youth

Promotes effective adolescent reproductive and sexual health programs and policies necessary to create sexual health equity for all youth.

Sexuality and Relationship Education For Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
By Davida Hartman

Offers practical teaching advice geared toward the needs of young people on the autism spectrum.

One Love

Provides tools and resources to recognize healthy and unhealthy relationships and bring life-saving prevention education to communities.

Reframing Our Stories

Provides sexual health education, resources, and tools for families and communities.

The National Domestic Violence Hotline

Provides 24/7 essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence.

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)

The largest anti-sexual violence organization in the United States.

Love is Respect

Offers resources, support, and advocacy aimed to disrupt and prevent unhealthy relationships and intimate partner violence.

The Conscious Parent’s Guide to Gender Identity
By Darlene Tando, LCSW

A mindful approach to embracing your child’s authentic self.

Helping Your Transgender Teen: A Guide for Parents, 2nd Addition
By Irwin Krieger

Provides advice to parents of transgender teens to help them understand their child.

interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth

Uses innovative legal and other strategies, to advocate for the human rights of children born with intersex traits.

Fenway Health

Delivers innovative, equitable, accessible health care, supportive services, and transformative research and education.

The Healthy Teen Cookbook: Around the World In 80 Fantastic Recipes
By Remmi Smith

A cookbook by a teen master chef, filled with tried-and-true recipes with budding chefs in mind.

EWG

Empowers people with breakthrough research to make informed choices and live a healthy life in a healthy environment.

Inner Dimension TV

A yoga and meditation studio all from the comfort of your own home.

Teen Safe

Provides educational materials to parents and adolescents to reduce risky behaviours and help promote healthy activities in teens.

The Trevor Project

A non-profit organization focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth.

Psychology Today

Psychology Today is the world’s largest mental health and behavioral science site online.

Chopra App

A place to discover your unique mind-body type and unlock personalized meditation and well-being practices tailored just for you.

Insight Timer

Offers 100,000 free guided meditations for as long as you want without ever paying a cent.

Teen Tribe // Support Group

Teen Tribe provides peer-to-peer support groups for teens faced with mental health challenges and/or difficult family dynamics.

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

We can all help prevent suicide. The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

The nation’s largest mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
By Robie Harris

Providing young people the knowledge & vocabulary needed to understand their bodies, relationships, & identities in order to make responsible decisions.

Growing Up Great! The Ultimate Puberty Book for Boys
By Scott Todnem

An inclusive, body-positive guide to puberty for boys ages 8 to 14.

Celebrate Your Body 2: The Ultimate Puberty Book for Preteen and Teen Girls
By Sonya Renee Taylor

Celebrate your Body offers the support needed to navigate this whole puberty thing with confidence.

Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships (Expanded Third Edition)
By Ruth Bell Alexander

Gives teens a thoughtful, empathetic, and personal look at sex, relationships and the many ways puberty affects emotional and physical health.

The Every Body Book
By Rachel E. Simon and Noah Grigni

An illustrated LGBTQ+ inclusive kid’s guide to sex, gender, and relationships education.

The Talk Puberty App

Includes over 150 questions on the topic of puberty and growing up.

Young Men’s Health

Provides carefully researched health information to teenage boys and young men.

Center for Young Women’s Health

Helping girls, young women, their caregivers, educators, and health care providers improve their understanding of health and development.

Amaze

AMAZE takes the awkward out of sex ed. Real info in fun, animated videos that give you all the answers you actually want to know.

Caregiver Resources
DBSA (Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance)

Providing hope, help, support, and education to improve the lives of people who have mood disorders.

NEABPD (National Education Alliance for Borerline Personality Disorder)

Provides education, promotes research, raises public awareness and understanding, decreases stigma, and enhances the quality of life of those affected by BPD

AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)

A voluntary health organization giving those affected by suicide a nation-wide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to help save lives.

College Parents Matter

Equips caregivers with young people in college with tools and resources to better communicate with them about alcohol and drug use.

Digital Life
Raising Humans in a Digital World
By Diana Graber

Helping kids build a healthy relationship with technology.

APPropriate

The parenting/tech education podcast around social media apps.

Family Link App

Lets you set digital ground rules to help guide your kids as they learn, play, and explore online.

Life 360

Protects each family member with advanced driving, digital, location, and emergency safety features.

Healthy Body
Chopra Global

By focusing on physical, mental, and spiritual health, we empower people to create self-care routines as unique as they are, unlocking their body’s natural healing abilities.

Sex Education for Boys: A Parent’s Guide
By Scott Todnem

Practical advice on puberty, sex, and relationships.

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
By Thich Nhat Hanh

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh shows how to make positive use of the situations in life that usually pressure and antagonize us.

Healthline

Access to birth control info and options, where to find free or low cost birth control, a health and wellness library, newsletters, apps, podcasts, and communities.

Healthy Mind
NEABPD (National Education Alliance for Borerline Personality Disorder)

Provides education, promotes research, raises public awareness and understanding, decreases stigma, and enhances the quality of life of those affected by BPD

AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)

A voluntary health organization giving those affected by suicide a nation-wide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to help save lives.

College Parents Matter

Equips caregivers with young people in college with tools and resources to better communicate with them about alcohol and drug use.

SAMHSA: Talk. They Hear You

A mobile app that helps caregivers to have conversations with their young people about underage substance use.

Puberty
What’s Happening to Tom?
By Kate E. Reynolds

A book about puberty for boys and young men with autism and related conditions.

Sex Positive Talks to Have With Kids: A Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy, Informed, Empowered Young People
By Melissa Pintor Carnagey, LBSW

Helping caregivers create the kind of bond that keeps kids safer, empowered, and returning to them for support along their journey.

Taking Care of Myself 2: For Teenagers and Young Adults with ASD
By Mary Wrobel

Winner of an iParenting Media Award! Puberty can be especially tough when young people have autism or other special needs.

Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum
By Shana Nichols, Ph.D., with Gina Marie Moravcik and Samara Pulver Tetenbaum

A guide for families and their daughters with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), as well as the teachers and professionals who work with them.

Sexual Health
The Sex EDcyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy Sexuality For The Modern Male Teen
By Jo Langford, M.A.

Arranged in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format, and provides a culturally-relevant primer on sexual health for teen boys.

Spare Me ‘The Talk’! A Girl’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Growing Up
By Jo Langford, M.A.

A comprehensive crash course for girls on staying safe while navigating the danger-laden worlds of teenage sex and sexuality in a digital age.

Sexploitation
By Cindy Pierce

Helping kids develop healthy sexuality in a porn-driven world.

Hayden-Reece Learns What To Do if Children See Private Pictures or Private Movies
By Holly-ann Martin

An education tool for adults to teach their children on the negative impact pornography has, and what to do if they see pornographic images.

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