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Selected Websites related to Parent-Teen Communication
Directory of Scholarships for Boston Students'
This on-line handbook lists Massachusetts-based scholarships that are available for Boston students.
Resources, tips and links to help students attain their goal of attending college.
Teen Health Talk! by the Teen Health Advisory Council from Health Care For All. Video copies of
the 6 episode series of a live teen health talk show are now available. Topics include:
Episode 1: Teen Pregnancy; Episode 2: Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Episode 3: Youth Smoking;
Episode 4: Teenage Drinking; Episode 5: Dating Violence; Episode 6: Interracial Dating.
If you are interested in obtaining the 3 video set of all 6 episodes, please contact Dave Chandrasekaran at
Health Care For All: Dchandra@hcfama.org
Announcement Flier in PDF format.
Advocates for Youth recently created a new Parents' Sex Ed Center with resources for both adolescents and
parents, publications, news events, facts and figures.
Advocates for Youth
Youth Risk Behavior Survey data from 1993-2001 (every two years) is available on the web, along with comparisons to
Massachusetts, other cities and the nation.
Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Child Trends continues to produce comprehensive research briefs outlining best practices and the latest
theory on a wide range of youth-related topics, including civic engagement, family strengths, religious involvement,
and others.
Child Trends
SistaGirls.org a new site designed to empower teen girls. Launched
in January 2002, SistaGirls.org gives teen girls from all over the world the opportunity to express themselves,
read about their peers, learn about careers and health topics, and see themselves represented
on the web.
SistaGirls.org
SIECUS publishes Families Are Talking, a quarterly newsletter with activities, tips, and other informatin. The first issue focuses on "parent-child communication" and includes tips
for young people, parents, and caregivers to talk with each other about sexuality, as well as web sites with useful information.
Families Newsletter
The second issue focuses on "the media" as a tool for family communication about sexuality and includes tips for young people, parents
and caregivers; comments from young people about JTV, sex, and real life; stats; resources; and an activity to get families to talk.
Families Newsletter 2
Check www.familesaretalking.org for upcoming issues that will address "family diversity" and "puberty" as well as other resources that encourage parent-child
communication.
“Talk, you’ve got to start somewhere,” is the public education campaign of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Coalition at the
Boston Public Health Coalition. This website has sections for parents and teens on a variety of topics, including communication,
as well as warning signs, statistics and resources.
www.talklisten.org
About Health is the website for Family Health Productions, one of the partners in this campaign. It includes activities and
tips for parents, stories written by teens for teens, access to videos, books, seminars and trainings, and links to other resources.
www.abouthealth.com
Raising Teens is a recent publication of the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Written by A. Rae Simpson, Raising Teens synthesizes research in the area of parenting of adolescents. It includes
five basic ways that parents influence healthy adolescent development, along with parenting strategies and key messages
for each of the “five basics”.www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/parenting/raising.html
Child Caring is a weekly column written by Barbara Meltz in the Boston Globe. This is the archive of articles since 1998.
Many of her columns address issues related to parents and teens, and offer concrete tips and suggestions for how to handle
difficult situations and to promote a positive relationship.
www.boston.com/globe/columns/meltz/all.htm
Tips on Teens is a website developed by two practitioners with extensive experience working with teens. It has sections on tips
and topics, ranging from physical changes, peer pressure, sexuality and homosexuality to having fun, driving and Internet use.
www.tipsonteens.com
IParenting is a website of iParenting Media, a multi-media company
for parents and parents-to-be. Much of its material focuses on pregnancy
and parenting of young children, but there are sections in its “Family Life Cycle”
menu on pre-teens and on teens with feature stories, expert Q & A, discussion boards,
e-mail communities and access to written resources on a wide range of topics.
It also has a companion website with much of the same material in Spanish.
www.iparenting.com
www.iparentingespanol.com
The federal Center for Mental Health Services has a website for its “Make Time to Listen,
Take Time to Talk, 15+” campaign, which includes information through brochures and “playing cards”.
www.mentalhealth.org/15plus
The National Parenting Center has a “Parentalk” newsletter section on its website with many brief
articles with concrete tips on a wide range of topics for both pre-teens and teens.
www.tnpc.com/parentalk
The Child Welfare League of America has a section called “Positive Parenting” which contains tips
for communicating with teens, tips on positive parenting, and links to many resources.
www.cwla.org/positiveparenting
Parenting Resources for the 21st Century is a US Department of Justice site that provides numerous
web links to sites focusing on youth development, gender issues, family concerns, family dynamics, and others.
www.parentingresources.ncjrs.org
Parent-Teen.com is an on-line magazine for parents with teens published by Parents Press in Berkeley, California.
It has articles written for teens as well as parents on topics such as college planning, your body, fun, work, coping,
arts and media, and others.www.parent-teen.com
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues is a national initiative by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation to
encourage parents to talk with their children earlier and more often about tough issues like sex, HIV/AIDS, violence,
alcohol and drug abuse. The website has tips, PSAs and resource links on those subjects. It has teamed with Nickelodeon
in a campaign to promote parent-teen communication. It has a special focus on fathers and talking with your kids about TV news.
It also has much of the information in Spanish.www.talkingwithkids.org
The National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy has a series of tip sheets: for parents (including a culturally-appropriate
Spanish version with an English translation), for parents from teens, for teens from teens, and for parents about generally raising their teenagers.
www.teenpregnancy.org/tipsfor.htm
iVillage.com: the Women’s Network has a magazine-style “parentsoup” section on both teens and pre-teens that offers expert
advice, quizzes, chats, discussion boards and information on many topics.
www.parentsoup.com
Parenting Today’s Teens began as a written journal in 1996 and switched to an electronic publication in 1998.
It has many features including communication tips, expert Q & A, book reviews, community chat and forum, support networks,
resource links and e-mail newsletters.www.parentingteens.com
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