Teens
Planned Parenthood of Southeast Iowa confidentially offers our full list of services for teens. This includes Pap tests, breast and pelvic exams, confidential pregnancy and STI testing, infection treatment, birth control methods, and emergency contraception. All of our services are offered on a sliding fee scale.
Websites
Advocates for Youth
Articles, advice, and information on sexuality and sexual health issues.
Answer
An organization at Rutgers University dedicated to providing and promoting comprehensive adolescent sexuality education.
Alan Guttmacher Institute
Provides up-to-date research on reproductive health issues.
Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Information for teens and parents about how to prevent unplanned pregnancy and how to talk to your parents.
Coalition for Positive Sexuality
Information for teens who are sexually active or who are thinking about becoming sexually active.
Families are Talking Newsletter
A newsletter containing information to help all parents and caregivers talk to their children about sexuality and related issues. Also contains tips and tricks for children to talk to their parents and caregivers.
Go Ask Alice!
A question and answer site including information on relationships, sexuality, and sexual health.
Gurl
An online community that discusses the issues of teenage girls.
Head and Hands
An organization dedicated to empowering youth.
Horizons Unlimited
A youth development and empowerment organization rooted in community service and advocacy.
I Wanna Know
A website by the American Social Health Association.
It's Your Sex Life
A guide to safe and responsible sex by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Kaiser Family Foundation
Provides the latest research on adolescent sexual behavior in the United States.
The Kinsey Institute
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University. Kinsey Confidential, The Kinsey Institute's sexuality information service for students, offers podcasts through iTunes and the NPR Public Radio Podcast Directory, which cover topics ranging from anatomy and contraception to concerns about sexual functioning and relationships. Kinsey Confidential also has a Facebook Group.
Positive.org
A website by the Coalition for Positive Sexuality.
Scarleteen
Advice, articles, and information addressing sexuality and sexual health isues for young adults and parents.
Scenarios USA
An organization that uses writing and filmmaking to foster youth leadership, advocacy, and self-expression in under-served teens.
Sex, etc.
A website by teens for teens by the Network of Family Life Education.
Sexuality and U
A great website full of lots of information for you, your parents, and teachers.
SIECUS
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.
Teen Voices
An online journalism project written by teens for teens to encourage teen girls to speak out on issues and create a positive and powerful media about what girls think, not what they look like.
Teenwire
A safe place in cyberspace for teens about sexuality and other health care issues. Info and news about teen sexuality, sexual health, and relationships. Take quick polls, find out if you're ready to have sex, read other stories teens have written, or go get the answers to your most pressing questions in Yikes!.
Vox
Vox (Latin for "voice") is a program to mobilize youth in support of reproductive rights.
Youth Resource
A website for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth by Advocates for Youth.
Facts of Life Hotline
Planned Parenthood offers the Facts of Life Hotline for information on sexuality, relationships, sexually transmitted infections, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, and much more.
Just follow these steps:
- Call 1 (800) 967-PLAN using a touch-tone phone
- Press 3 to access the Facts of Life Hotline when you hear the welcome
- Press 1 for English, 2 para Espanol
- Press 6 to access the health topic hotline menu
- Enter the 3 digit code from the list of health topics
This hotline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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