Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Here you will find links to resources about health care for teens and to websites for parents and caregivers and for teens about teen pregnancy prevention.

Health Care for Teens

American Academy of Pediatrics: Find a Pediatrician or Pediatric Specialist. Search by doctor name, address, city, state, zip code, or medical specialty/interest (for example, teen health) to find pediatricians who are AAP members.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Find a Health Center. Search by address, city, state, or zip code to find a federally funded health center that provides free or low-cost care.
Office of Population Affairs: Find a Family Planning Clinic. Directory for Title X–funded health clinics that provide family planning and reproductive health care to people in the United States who have low incomes or are uninsured.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA): Find a Health Center. Search by state or zip code to find a PPFA health center affiliate that offers sexual and reproductive health care for women, men, and teens.
Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM): Find an Adolescent Health Professional. Search by name, city, state, country, discipline, or area of interest to find teen health professionals who are SAHM members.

Websites for Parents and Caregivers

Advocates for Youth: Parents Sex Ed Center. Articles and information about growth and development, talking about sex, sexual health, waiting to have sex, and contraception. Recent materials include

Parent-Child Communication: Promoting Sexually Healthy Youth. (2009). [Article].
Children Now: Talking with Kids About Tough Issues. Tips for talking more easily with your kids about difficult issues, including sex.
HealthyChildren.org: Dating and Sex. Articles on talking with teens about sex, sexuality, dating, and love.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy: Parent's Portal. Information and tips about how to communicate with teens about sex and unwanted pregnancy.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA): Tools For Parents. Information about sexuality, puberty, and how to talk with your kids about sex. Link to additional information about abortion, contraception, body image, relationships, sexuality, and STDs.
Healthy Teen Network. 2010. Opportunity Knocks: Using Teachable Moments to Convey Safer Sex Messages to Young People. Baltimore, MD: Healthy Teen Network. This fact sheet describes how to take advantage of teachable moments to talk about safe sex practices.

Websites for Teens

girlshealth.gov: Body. Facts for girls about taking care of your body. Includes information about sexuality, puberty, talking to your parents about sex, waiting to have sex, and STDs.
Go Ask Alice! A health question-and-answer service on topics that include relationships, sexuality, and sexual health.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA): Teen Talk. Questions and answers, video clips, and facts in English and Spanish about puberty, dating, sexuality, contraception, and preventing pregnancy and STDs.
Sex, Etc. Information about sexual health, relationships, and pregnancy and STD prevention. Includes facts, answers to frequently asked questions, a glossary of common sex terms, a blog, video clips, discussion forums, and advocacy tools.
Stay Teen. Information about relationships, waiting to have sex, contraception, and how to avoid pregnancy. Includes articles, video clips, social media, and the Youth Online Network, an electronic forum for teens to share news and opinions about teen pregnancy prevention.
Talk About Sex. Information about sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, relationships, and good decision-making.
TeensHealth: Sexual Health. Information for girls and guys about puberty, relationships, waiting to have sex, and contraception.
Young Men's Health: Sexuality and Sexual Health. Information for teen guys and young men about sexuality, healthy decisions, contraception, and STDs.

Learn more about teen pregnancy prevention.

Need more information? Use the collection of resources that library staff have put together for you and your family.

Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Family Resource Brief. (September 2010). (Updated: July 2014).

Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Digital Library.
Reviewers: Olivia K. Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Digital Library; Katherine Suellentrop, M.P.H., The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Digital Library.