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
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.

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.

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.

Healthy Body
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.

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 Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens
By Elyse Resch, M.S., RDN

A non-diet, body positive approach to building a healthy relationship with food.

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
Vaginas and Periods 101
By Christian Hoeger and Kristen Lilla

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

HelloFLo: The Guide, Period.
By Naama Bloom

Honest, funny, and unafraid of the messy, real-life facts about a girl’s changing body, this is definitely not your mother’s puberty book.

Welcome to Your Period
By Yumi Stynes and Dr Melissa Kang

A taboo-free guide that is packed with honest advice and big-sisterly wisdom on all the things girls need to know.

Period.
By Natalie Byrne

Everything you need to know about periods, period. This is a book for everyone.

Relationships
S.E.X. The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties (2nd edition)
By Heather Corinna

For teens and young adults, tackling everything from sex, consent, safe sex, emotional health and more.

Dating Smarts: What Every Teen Needs to Know to Date, Relate, or Wait
By Amy Lang, M.A.

A guide about dating, relationships, and sex with practical, real-world tips and support.

Let’s Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent, and Respect
By Jayneen Sanders

Teaches children about body boundaries, consent, and respect, and includes discussion questions for parents, caregivers, and educators.

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.

Sexual Health
Sexploitation
By Cindy Pierce

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

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.

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.

Let’s Get Checked

Home STD testing with treatment included.

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