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Youth Advocacy & Policy
Advocates for Youth - www.advocatesforyouth.org - Dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.
AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families - www.aids-alliance.org - 202/785-3564 - Policy, research, education and advocacy on a broad range of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and research issues.
National Youth Advocacy Coalition - www.nyacyouth.org - 202/319-7596 - Advocacy for and with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in an effort to end discrimination. NYAC programs include the HIV/STD Prevention Project.
Government
CDC National AIDS Hotline - www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.htm - 800/342/2437 (English) - 800/344/7432 (Spanish) - 800/243-7889 (TTY) - National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
Health Resources and Services Administration - www.hab.hrsa.gov/education.htm - The AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs) Program of the Ryan White CARE Act is a network of regional and national centers that train health care providers to treat persons with HIV/AIDS.
Prevention & Education
The Body - www.thebody.com - An AIDS and HIV Information Resource. Updated daily, this comprehensive website includes information on HIV Prevention, Treatment, a Q & A Forum, and chat rooms for AIDS-related topics.
Teen Wire - www.teenwire.com - Sexuality and Relationship information from Planned Parenthood.
Sex, Etc. - www.sexetc.org - The web version of "Sex, Etc." - a newsletter compiled by a group of high school students from New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia, addressing sex and the issues surrounding it.
Health
American Social Health Association - www.ashastd.org - Facts and information on STDs, National STD Hotlines and updates on current legislation.
Planned Parenthood - www.plannedparenthood.org - 800/230-PLAN - Providing high quality, affordable reproductive health care, sexual health information, and HIV counseling and testing to nearly five million women, men and teenagers annually.
4girls.gov - www.4girls.gov - This site was created to help girls (ages 10-16) learn about health, growing up, and issues they may face. It focuses on health topics that girls are concerned about and helps motivate them to choose healthy behaviors by using positive, supportive, and non-threatening messages. The site gives girls reliable, useful information on the health issues they will face as they become young women and tips on handling relationships with family and friends, at school and at home.
Counseling & Testing
National HIV Testing Resources - www.hivtest.org - Information on counseling and testing sites throughout the United States, confidentiality rights and what to do if you test positive.
HIV - Live With It. Get Tested! - www.hivgettested.com - There is an extensive counseling and testing site list for Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Washington DC.
Peer Education
LIFEbeat - www.lifebeat.org - The Music Industry Fights AIDS - HIV Information and Facts.
Teens Against Negligence Web Site - www.tanprogram.org - This Site is currently under construction. The mission of the Teens Against Negligence Program is to reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among youth through leadership training, education, and community presentations.
Adolescent AIDS Program - www.HIVGetTested.com - There is an extensive counseling and testing site list for Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Washington DC.
Gay & Lesbian
National Gay and Lesbian Youth Hotline - 800/347-TEEN - Provides free and confidential telephone and email peer-counseling information and local resources for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning callers throughout the United States. We also work to strengthen local GKBT hotlines and organizations in their mission of service to our community.
Community Advisory Board
Getting Yourself to a Conference - www.napwa.org/documents/041027findingmoney.pdf - Preliminary Steps • Decide why you want to go to a particular conference. • What will be the benefit? To you? To your work? To your community? • What do you bring to the conference? - How does your...
Voices 2007 - www.aids-alliance.org/aids_alliance/voices.html - New Direction for a shorter and more focused agenda that addresses the specific needs of consumers, case managers, and program administrators from family and youth-centered HIV care networks who are focused on working with parents, children, youth and women. Reduced by one full day from past years to save time and expenses, the conference will no longer be abstract driven. THe conference planning committee and track co-chairs may solicit proposals for break-out sessions. Plenary sessions will heavily engage the audience and include lively debates on current public policy issues. Scheduled over a weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 19-20, the main body of the conference will be followed by Advocacy Day on Monday, May 21 -- a separate contiguous event.
The Center for Information and Advocacy - www.centerforaids.org - The Center for AIDS (CFA) advocates both locally and nationally for better treatments and better access to care for persons living with HIV/AIDS and strives to keep the Houston medical and affected community informed, updated, and involved in the search for a cure.
Technical Assistance & Training Opportunities
Target Center -
http://careacttarget.org - the Technical Assistance Resources, Guidance, Education, and Training (TARGET) Center, a technical assistance resource for Ryan White CARE Act grantees and HAB staff. For more information about the Ryan White CARE Act and services available for people living with HIV/AIDS, visit the Health Resources and Services Administration.
HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau - http://hab.hrsa.gov - The HIV/AIDS Bureau, administered by The Health Resource and Services Administration is dedicated to providing up-to-date information regarding policy, studies, initiatives, education & training, publications, grantee information and events that support the efforts enacted by the Ryan White Care Act.
