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
SAMHSA: Talk. They Hear You

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

Partnership to End Addiction: Helpline

A helpline for caregivers to get one-on-one help to address their young person’s substance use.

Planned Parenthood

Ensuring all people have access to vital sexual and reproductive health care, sex education, and accurate information.

Put a Cup in it

Aims to provide the best period education and promote menstrual & sexual wellness through open & positive education, advocacy, and an inclusive community.

Digital Life
Bark

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

Cyberwise

A resource site for grownups seeking to help youth use tech safely and wisely.

Circle

Vetted, robust, and easy to use online monitoring and parental controls.

SaferNet

A cybersecurity app for any device that connects to your own control center dashboard.

Healthy Body
What’s Happening to Ellie?
By Kate E. Reynolds

A book about puberty for girls and young women with autism and related conditions.

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

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

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

Provides young people with the knowledge and vocabulary they need to understand their bodies, relationships, and identities.

It’s So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families
By Robie H. Harris

A fun, accurate, comic-book on how things work, while giving kids a healthy understanding of their bodies.

Healthy Mind
Partnership to End Addiction: Helpline

A helpline for caregivers to get one-on-one help to address their young person’s substance use.

NIH:National Institute on Drug Abuse

Science-based information about drug use, health, and the developing brain for young people, caregivers, and educators.

Partnership to End Addiction

Empowering families, advancing effective care, shaping public policy and changing culture to end addiction.

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.

Puberty
Youth.GOV

A U.S. government website that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs.

The Breakaway: A Parent’s Guide to Transitioning the Autistic and Twice Exceptional Adolescent Into Young Adulthood
By Thomas W. Welch, Psy.D.

A resource for any parent or provider looking for a concrete and realistic approach for guiding their neurodiverse teen into young adulthood.

The Autism-Friendly Guide to Periods
By Robyn Steward

A detailed guide for young people aged 9 to 16 on the basics of menstruation, written by autistic author Robyn Steward.

How to Talk to Your Daughter About Periods Podcast
By Health Partners

A podcast on how to talk to your daughter in a positive way about her first period

Sexual Health
Your Brain On Porn
By Gary Wilson

Helps readers gain a better understanding of the science of addiction and the possible effects of internet pornography.

Cidney Pierce

Encourages educators to engage in conversations with students about the influences of social media, internet porn and hookup culture.

The Reward Foundation

Evidence-based info about love, relationships, and the impact of internet pornography on mental and physical health, relationships, attainment, and legal liability.

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

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

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