Elementary/Family:
- Check the Cyber-bullying Research Center for a list of warning signs www.cyberbullying.us/cyberbullying_warning_signs.pdf.
- Learn about securing your wireless network and protecting your children in What Parents Need to Know: the Wireless World or learn the basics of this technology in Everything You Need to Know about Wireless, both in Internet Smarts at www.powertolearn.com and protecting privacy at www.commonsense.org/protecting-personal-privacy-online.
- For filtering and monitoring packages visit the Filtering, Monitoring, and Blocking Section of Internet Smarts: What Parents Need to Know at www.powertolearn.com
- Jumpstart: Fostering skills for life-long learning in early childhood www.jstart.org
- Keep a Child Alive: Treatment, love, and support for families affected by HIV/AIDS keepachildalive.org
- Kids Helping Kids: Help for kids with catastrophic illness/mobility needs kidshelping.org
- Kids in Need Foundation: School supplies, changing lives, ensuring every child is prepared to learn and succeed by providing free school supplies www.kinf.org
- Kids Turn Curriculum: Healing Children and Parents/Guardians from Family Separation and Divorce kidsturn.org
- Kids Zone (National Center for Educational Statistics- K-12 schools, college selection, libraries, math, graphing, and fun with data) nces.ed.gov
- Worldwide Orphans Foundation: Transforming lives of orphan children www.wwo.org
- Child Abuse Hotline: (800)-4-A-CHILD (422-4453) or (800)-2-A-CHILD (222-4453)
- Child Abuse/Sexual Abuse/Domestic Violence Hotline: (800)-799-SAFE or (800)-799-7233 or (800)-787-3224
- Children’s Rights: Reforming failing child welfare systems www.childrensrights.org
- Darkness 2 Light: End child sexual abuse www.d21.org
- First Book: Access to new books for children in need http://www.firstbook.org/
- Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: www.raisingyourgrandchildren.com
- “I Have a Dream” Foundation: Empowers children in low-income communities to achieve higher education and fulfill their leadership potential with guaranteed tuition support and the skills, knowledge, and habits they need to enter and succeed in college and beyond www.ihaveadreamfoundation.org
Middle School/Family:
- Common Sense Media Tips on How to Talk to Kids about Sexting at www.commonsense.org/talking-about-sexting
- For additional information on sexting and how to deal with it, go to Cyber-bullying Research Center’s “Sexting: a Brief Guide for Parents” at www.cyberbullying.us/sexting_sheet.pdf
- College Countdown for Parents with middle school teens (NACAC) www.nacac.net.org
High School/Teens and Family:
- Check Yourself: A place for teens to check where they are with alcohol and other drugs www.checkyourself.com
- Coalition for Positive Sexuality (English and Español): Giving teens information and affirming their decisions about sex, sexuality, and reproductive control www.positive.org
- CoAbode: Single mothers house sharing www.coabode.org
- Smoking Cessation Program for Teens www.iquitathitops.com
- Teen Angels: Teen cyber safety experts www.teenangels.org
- Common Sense about Kids and Guns www.kidsandguns.org
- Depression (Research-based information and resources from National Institute of Mental Health) www.nimh.nih.gov
- Domestic Violence Hotline (800)-829-1122
- Eating Disorders (Research-based information and resources from National Institute of Mental Health) www.nimh.nih.gov
- Homeless/Runaway Youth Helpline/The Nine Line: (800)-999-9999 www.covenanthouse.org
- How to Study: When you hit the books—and they hit back www.howtostudy.org
- It’s Your Sex Life: Public information campaign on sex education www.itsyoursexlife.com
- Support Kids Now: Resources for lack of child-support payments www.supportkidsnow.org
- Tobacco-Free Kids www.tobaccofreekids.org
- WeParent (Co-parenting) www.weparent.com
LGBT:
Think Before You Speak: End use of “That’s so gay!” and verbal abuse toward LGBT youth
www.thinkb4youspeak.com
Transfamily www.transfamily.org
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere www.colage.org
Family Acceptance Project: Building healthy futures for LGBT youth (English, Español)
familyproject.sfsu.edu
Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network www.gisen.org
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation www.glaad.org
Gay and Lesbian National Hotline (Monday-Friday 6-11 PM EST) (888)-843-4564
Gay Straight Alliance Network International www.gsani.org
GLBT National Youth Talkline (800)-246-PRIDE
www.thinkb4youspeak.com
Transfamily www.transfamily.org
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere www.colage.org
Family Acceptance Project: Building healthy futures for LGBT youth (English, Español)
familyproject.sfsu.edu
Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network www.gisen.org
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation www.glaad.org
Gay and Lesbian National Hotline (Monday-Friday 6-11 PM EST) (888)-843-4564
Gay Straight Alliance Network International www.gsani.org
GLBT National Youth Talkline (800)-246-PRIDE
High School/College Oriented:
- You Can Go!: College Board’s site with video students success stories, college options, college search engines, next steps, and college-going pledge http://youcango.collegeboard.org/
- Center for Community Change: Build power and capacity of low-income persons, especially people of color, improve communities, institutions, policies http://www.communitychange.org
- College Insight: Making data on college affordability, diversity, and success easy to find, compare, and analyze college.insight.org
- College Prep/Calendar Grades 9-12 (NACAC) www.nacac.net.org
- College Planning for Students with Disabilities http://www.educationquest.org/swd.asp
- FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid (English, Español) www.fafsa.ed.gov
- FinAid: The Smart Student Guide to Financial Aid www.finaid.org
- Financial Aid in 7 Easy Steps (NACAC) www.nacac.net.org
- Hispanic College Fund www.hispanicfund.org
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund www.hsf.net
- The Institute for College Access and Success: Making higher education more available and affordable ticas.org
- Job-Hunt.org www.job-hunt.org
- Jobs for the Future: Education for economic opportunity www.jff.org
School Counselor:
- Center for Excellence in School Counseling and Leadership (CESCAL) www.cescal.org
- CollegeEd: The College Board’s grade 7-12 career and college planning program, curricula, lessons, student workshops http://professionals.collegeboard.com/k-12/planning/collegeed
- High School Counselor Week http://hscounselorweek.com
- School Counselor Blog: Sharing innovative ideas, lessons, and quality resources (Danielle Schultz) http://www.schcounselor.com
- Scope: School Counselors’ Online Professional Exchange: Micro-stories of positive change and influence from the field (Dr. Erin Mason) http://sconlineprofessionalexchange.blogspot.com/Virtualschoolcounselor.com: Resources for school counseling program website (Nathan Grosshandler)
- Words Can Work: Knowing the issues, talking with kids wordscanwork.com