Resource Library

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

Teen Featured
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.

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.

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.

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.

Teen
Overeaters Anonymous (OA)

A community of people who support and give hope and strength to recover from unhealthy relationships with food and body image.

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.

Digital Life
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.

NetSmartz®

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

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Working to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization.

Healthy Body
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.

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.

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.

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.

Puberty
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.

Youth.GOV

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

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.

Relationships
Boyfriends and girlfriends: A Guide to Dating for People with Disabilities
By Terri Couwenhoven

An easy-to-read, illustrated guide about dating and relationships for teens and adults with disabilities.

The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens
By Sean Covey

Helps teens with 6 major challenges: self-esteem, parents, friends, sex, substances, and school and career.

Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up
By Heather Corinna and Isabella Rotman

An adolescent guide to growing up, including essential topics such as sex, bodies, and relationships education.

Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human
By Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

An inclusive, accessible, and honest graphic novel guide to growing up.

Sexual Health
Birds & Bees & Kids

Amy Lang offers simple and effective tips and tools to start the sex talks.

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

Practical advice on puberty, sex, and relationships.

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.

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