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
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.

Social Awakening

Social Awakening helps teens, schools, and parents survive and thrive in this digital world.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

The American Academy of Pediatrics is guided by its mission to ensure the health and well-being of all children.

Digital Life
Tech Talk/s!
By Jo Langford, M.A.

A guide to parenting around online safety, social media, and self-esteem.

Healthy Gamer Coaching

Peer coaches trained to help gamers struggling to establish a fulfilling life.

reSTART

Residential treatment program for video game addiction, blockchain gaming, screen-time, internet gaming, and social media use.

Internet Safety 101

Designed to educate, equip, and empower parents, educators, and other adults with what they need to protect children from internet dangers.

Healthy Body
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.

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.

How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder: A Simple, Plate-by-Plate Approach to Rebuilding a Healthy Relationship with Food
By Casey Crosbie, RD, CSSD, and Wendy Sterling, M.S., RD, CSSD

Paired with therapy, this intuitive, visual method supports your child on the path to recovery.

Healthy Mind
Moodfit

A free app that helps you track your moods and gives you exercises to help address negative emotions.

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education

Guides teens and young adults in self-awareness, compassion, & ethical decision making, and empowering them to apply these to their lives..

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
By Don Miguel Ruiz

Reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering.

The Ultimate Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens
By Megan MacCutcheon, LPC

A workbook to help build up self-esteem and confidence, with creative activities and advice on how to think positively, release self-doubt, and love yourself.

Puberty
Talking to our Sons About Periods Podcast

Conversations about how to talk to our sons from a young age about periods.

Vaginas and Periods 101
By Christian Hoeger and Kristen Lilla

A fun and creative way to learn more about… vaginas and periods!

Sex Positive Families

Provides education and resources that help families raise sexually healthy children using a shame-free, comprehensive, and pleasure-positive approach.

Common Questions Children Ask About Puberty
By Lori Reichel

The “Puberty Chit Chat Cards” help children and adults begin conversations in a fun and interactive manner.

Sexual Health
Beheroes411 App

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

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.

Talk. Test. Treat. (CDC)

Encourages individuals and health care providers to talk, test, and treat — STDs are preventable and curable.

Get Tested: Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Find free, fast, and confidential HIV, STD, and hepatitis testing in the U.S.

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