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Youth Health Online Resources from around the Web:
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Check out the following i care 2 CHECK
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This is the section targeted at young people:Youth & Young Adults
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This tells you more about the handheld guide:
Health site from Nemours
Health site from Northern New Jersey
App in development from Texas Empoweringyouth.app
Maine YLAT website to App
The LEAP learning community is sharing a round-up of resources related to youth mental health.
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Free Support Groups for Youth and Mental Health Provider Directory The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation has developed several easy-to-use local resource directories, including a list of free, virtual local support groups for teens and young adults and mental health services, providers, and programs serving the African-American community.
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Feel Your Feels is an excellent all-around resource site offering toolkits, infographics, and conversation guides categorized for use by teens, providers, or parents.
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Youth-Led Mental Health Conversations VOX ATL, a teen media outlet in Atlanta, GA, has been covering the youth mental health crisis and has a searchable set of blogs and podcasts on the topic by teens, for teens. Check it out here.
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Bad B*tches Have Bad Days Too Launched by Megan Thee Stallion, this resource page includes a wide-ranging set of links to therapy platforms, resource directories, and community healthiness.
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From the archives: In a previous LEAP Youth Resilience Community of Practice Session, Lina Pasquale, Senior Division Director of Residential Child Welfare and Trauma-Informed Practice at Good Shepherd Services in NYC, shared several resources on vicarious trauma and assessment tools organizations can use to promote resiliency among staff who work with trauma-impacted youth. Take a look back at those resources here.