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
Glow Kids
By Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D.

How technology has profoundly affected the brains of children—and not for the better.

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.

Digital Life
Sex, College, and Social Media: A Commonsense Guide to Navigating the Hookup Culture
By Cindy Pierce

Provides trustworthy answers for pressing questions about all aspects of the college social scene.

Beheroes

Provides healthy social and sexual information to teens and their parents about adolescence, sexuality, and technology.

Healthy Body
MapMyRun App

Allows you to map your route, track your activity, and share it on social media.

Doctor Staci: Healthy Teeth, Happy Lives

Creating a cavity-free world through a whole-body, holistic, and functional approach with patients.

What is Health: Nutrition and Wellness

Offering functional nutrition therapy, restorative wellness, and customized nutrition and healthstyle plans that work for each individual!

Crystal Anthony

Offering a wide range of experiences as an athlete, a coach, and educator.

Healthy Mind
Words of Wisdom for Teens
By Jacqui Letran, M.S.N.

Books to help teen girls conquer negative thinking, be positive, and live with confidence.

The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens
By Lisa M. Schab, LCSW

Activities to help teens build confidence and achieve their goals.

Dr RJ – Life Coach

Coaches teens one-on-one with a focus on leadership in relationships, academics, and personal development.

Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential
By Deepak Chopra, M.D.

How to venture beyond daily living and experience heightened states of awareness.

Puberty
HealthyChildren

Backed by pediatricians committed to optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all young adults.

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.

Sexual Health
Beheroes

Provides healthy social and sexual information to teens and their parents about adolescence, sexuality, and technology.

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.

Advocates For Youth

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

American Sexual Health Association (ASHA)

Empowers individuals, families, and communities to achieve sexually healthy lives through education and advocacy.

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