Programs & Resources for Parents & Caregivers

BRIDGE THE COMMUNICATION GAP

• investigate ways in which children — from birth — are developing sexual attitudes, values and feelings;
• examine personal concerns and ideas about handling their children’s sexual curiosity;
• learn strategies for responding in age- and experience-appropriate ways to children’s sexual questions and behaviors;
• gain valuable information, skills and resources;
• LAUGH AND HAVE FUN!

• “There's No Place Like Home for Sex Education,” our widely acclaimed 80-page guide that helps parents share medically accurate, age-appropriate information about sex with their children.
• Fact sheets from national agencies that specialize in teen sexual health issues.
  These fact sheets give parents research-based information on:
  • the developmental and social issues that young people face,
  • the risk factors for teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections and
  • public support for comprehensive sex education in public schools and
  • proven public-health strategies that help protect young people and support them in responsible behavior.
• A resource guide listing books, articles, Web sites, hotlines and other materials.

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Resources

The extensive list of resources below is adapted from an expanded list developed by Advocates for Youth. Listed here are Web sites for parents, Web sites for teens, helpful books,  recommended videos, and links to other organizations.

Recommended Web Sites for Parents  

• Families Are Talking — www.familiesaretalking.org
• Parents’ Sex Ed Center — www.advocatesforyouth.org/parents/
• Talking with Kids about Tough Issues — www.talkingwithkids.org
• There's No Place Like Home for Sex Education — www.noplacelikehome.org
• The New 3Rs: Rights, Respect, Responsibility parents page — http://new3rs.info/index.php?p=diff_parents_what

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Recommended Web Sites for Young People

www.teenwire.com
Provides accurate information for teens on many different areas of healthy sexuality, in a fun and friendly format.

www.sexetc.org A Web site and free newsletter produced for teens by teens. Writers take on all different angles of preventing pregnancy and disease transmission.

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Recommended Books

All About Sex: A Family Resource on Sex and Sexuality
Ronald Filiberti Moglia & Jon Knowles
Three Rivers Press, 1997
ISBN: 0609801465