The following organizations equip preteens and teens with knowledge and resources that empowers them to make healthy choices for themselves.

AMAZE

AMAZE harnesses the power of digital media to provide children and adolescents around the globe with medically accurate, age-appropriate, affirming, and honest sex education they can access directly online—regardless of where they live or what school they attend. The site offers information in fun, animated videos that give you all the answers you actually want to know about sex, your body and relationships.

Bloom 365

Bloom 365 is a non-profit domestic/sexual/teen dating violence prevention organization. They offer a 3-Step "Bloom It Up" solution delivered in schools and community-based organizations. It is a peer to peer advocacy and activism program to #UprootAbuse and cultivate empathy, respect, kindness, equality, consent, safety and peace as the standard for this generation of youth and the next.

Break the Cycle

Break the Cycle is a teen-specific violence prevention organization that inspires and supports young people to build healthy relationships and create a culture without abuse.  It offers: youth programs for leadership and education; how to stop dating abuse and maintain the rights to a safe and healthy relationship; Let’s Be Real movement for young people; advocacy toolkits and legal services.

Center for Young Women’s Health

The mission of Center for Young Women’s Health is to help teen girls, their parents, educators, and health care providers improve their understanding of normal health and development, as well as of specific diseases and conditions. They want to empower teen girls and young women around the world to take an active role in their own health care.

Character Lab

Character Lab connects researches with educators to create greater knowledge about conditions that lead to social, emotional, academic and physical well-being for young people. Resources include 60 second tips and guides to cultivate strengths of heart, mind, and will.

The Connectory

The Connectory makes the connection to STEAM learning opportunities that inspire young people to explore, discover and create. STEAM refers to science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. Search for events, camps, and activities in your community.

The Cornerstone of Civic Online

The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) designed COR to help educators teach students the methods that fact checkers use to evaluate the trustworthiness of online sources. Lessons and assessments provide students with opportunities to apply fact checkers’ questions to real-world examples.

Courage Museum

Courage Museum is an immersive learning center to prevent violence and abuse. Science shows that violence is a learned behavior, the product of experiences and influences that shape people’s beliefs and attitudes from early stages of development. Change takes courage plus a roadmap. The museum offers a core program for middle and high school students.

Futures Without Violence/Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relations

FUTURES provides groundbreaking programs, policies, and campaigns that empower individuals and organizations working to end violence against women and children around the world. Start Strong is a national program aimed at promoting healthy relationships among 11 to 14-year-olds and identifying promising ways to prevent teen dating violence.

Girls Who Code

The mission of Girls Who Code is to close the gender gap in k-12 computer science classrooms. They are working to expand computer science courses to all middle schools; fund gender inclusion training; implement data-driven solutions to address the gender gap in tech.

Girl Security

The mission of Girl Security is to close the gender gap in national security through learning, training, and mentoring support for girls. The Girl Security SEA Model seeks to build a world where women are the decision makers responsible for securing our nation. The organization partners with schools in the classroom to create an intensive learning experience.

GirlUp

GirlUp is a global movement with leadership development programs in nearly 125 countries and all 50 U.S. states. They inspire a generation of girls to be a force for gender equality and social change.

Girls With Impact

Girls With Impact is a live, online entrepreneurship program just for girls. It develops skills to overcome challenges and move into the future with confidence. Programs are for students, parents, schools, employers and communities.

I Owe Me Challenge

The I Owe Me Challenge is a national student competition that encourages students to analyze the current state of the retirement policy in the U. S. and purpose viable policy solutions to meet the needs of their generation.

Jennifer Ann’s Group

Jennifer Ann's Group is preventing teen dating violence through awareness, education, and advocacy (+video games) in memory of Jennifer Ann Crecente.

KNOW YOUR IX

Know Your IX is a survivor- and youth-led project of Advocates for Youth that aims to empower students to end sexual and dating violence in their schools. The mission is to educate college and high school students in the U. S. about their legal right to safe education free from gender-based harms. They offer training and advocate for policy change.

Love is Respect

Love is Respect’s purpose is to engage, educate and empower young people to prevent and end abusive relationships. Online, Love is Respect strives to be a safe, inclusive space for young people to access information and get help in an environment that is designed specifically for them. Their website provides comprehensive education on healthy, unhealthy and abusive dating relationships and behaviors.

MediaWise for Gen Z

Media Wise a nonpartisan project of Poynter Institute, is teaching teens to be critical media consumers and make decisions based on facts. The 4 pillars of the project are curriculum, in-person and virtual training, teen fact-checking network, and ambassadors.

MVP (Mentors in Violence) Strategies/High School

Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) is one of the longest-running and most widely influential gender violence, sexual harassment and bullying prevention programs in the world. The programs include presentations, leadership training for students and professionals. MVP is a bystander-focused gender violence and bullying prevention approach that is especially well-suited to high school settings.

National Museum of American History

American History collections, exhibitions, research, publications, and educational programs are available to everyone. Explore.

Native Love

The Native Love project includes a youth video/photo challenge, posters, social media campaigns, FAQs, and teen resources and tool kits. These are offered to support and inform youth and educators about healthy relationship and to encourage dialogue in Native communities. The Explore special collection provides resources for native teens includes webinars.

News Literacy Project

News Literacy Project is a nonpartisan national education nonprofit that provides programs and resources for educators and the public. Learn how to tell the difference between fact and fiction.

The PBS Student Reporting Lab / SRL

The PBS Student Reporting Lab (SRL) is a national program and public media initiative that trains teenagers to produce stories that highlight today’s youth. SRL inspires students to find their voices and engage in their community.

Pop Culture Hero Coalition

This organization works in partnership with Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Pop Culture Hero Coalition works to educate and support children, teens and adults to overcome bullying and social injustice, and to transform their struggles into strengths.

Prevent IPV (Intimate Partner Violence)

Prevent IPV is a national project working to prevent sexual assault and relationship violence. The organization engages youth in prevention that features lessons from five community coalitions. Their focus is on building youth’s leadership skills and helping them in shifting norms related to violence. It provides concept resources and more to advance a national prevention agenda.

Prevent Connect/ Research on Adolescent Sexual Violence and Implications for Prevention

This site offers an archive of web conferences on topics such as healthy teen relations and violence prevention approaches. Plus their podcasts highlight prevention themes, new research and the voices of practitioners who have implemented programs.

Take A Stand For Healthy Relationships

Take A Stand For Healthy Relationships is a program from National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) and Discovery Education that teaches students how to understand and build healthy relationships. The curriculum encourages important skills in communication, self-awareness and emotions intelligence.

The Pulitzer Center

The Pulitzer Center is a nonprofit organization that reports on global issues and raises awareness of the interconnected nature of the challenges of our times. They organize 700-plus events each year for k-12 schools, colleges and the public.

Rock the Vote

Rock the Vote is a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to building the political power of young people. For over 25 years, Rock the Vote has revolutionized the way we use pop culture, music, art, and technology to engage young people in politics and build our collective power. It offers a free democracy class movement that educates students about the importance of voting and the history of voting.

SAFEBAE

SafeBAE is a survivor-founded, youth-lead national organization whose mission is to end sexual assault among middle and high school students. As a national peer-to-peer organization of this kind, they help promote culture change by giving teens the tools to become activists and shift school culture through raising awareness about dating violence, sexual harassment and assault, affirmative consent, safe bystander intervention, survivor care, and their rights under Title IX.

Sex, Etc.

Sex, Etc. is on a mission to improve teen sexual health across the country. It is a source of comprehensive sex ed information. It is published by Answer, a national organization that provides comprehensive education for young people and adults who teach them.

Smithsonian/ Because of Her Story

The Smithsonian documents the role of women in American history. Through the Because of Her program we can educate, disseminate and amplify the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.

Students Civic Online Reasoning

Stanford History Education Group offers a free Civic Online Reasoning curriculum with lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities and the world.

Teach A Girl To LeaD / TAG

TAG is designed for educators, leaders of youth-serving groups, and parents. It provides the tools and resources to help young people rethink leadership so that they can imagine becoming a leader. The program makes women’s political leadership visible for America’s youth.

TEACHING EMPATHY INSTITUTE

Teaching Empathy Institute works to establish emotionally and physically safe learning communities for elementary, middle school and high school students and the adults who work with them. TEI emphasizes life-skills development. Students learn to manage emotions successfully during stressful and difficult times.

TeenDating Violence

Teen Dating Violence organization offers resources for youth, adults and communities interested in learning more about teen dating violence. It has a team of contributors including attorneys and experts in the various fields it covers. The month of February has been declared Teen Dating Violence month to sound the call to end this silent epidemic. There are resources for adults and youth.

That’s Not Cool

That’s Not Cool is a national public education initiative that partners with young people to raise awareness about teen dating violence. It encourages healthy relationships online and off. The program brings organizational tools to communities to address the dating violence issue. An app to challenge friends to be part of the respect effect, and adult tools and support.

VAWnet.org

This special collection of resources emphasizes collaborative and multi-level approaches to the prevention of and response to teen dating violence (TDV). The program developed by The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence offers collaborative and multi level approaches to this epidemic.

YouCubed

YouCubed, a program of Stanford Graduate School of Education, inspires mathematics success for all students through growth mindsets and innovative teaching. The program provides researched-based teaching methods, mathematics tasks, videos, and ideas.

Young Men’s Health

The purpose of Young Men’s Health is to provide carefully researched health information to teenage boys and young men. It is developed by the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.