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ACLU-NC | Your Health Your Rights: A Guide for Teens

Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world.

TeenSource.org is a complete sex education guide that strives to answer all your questions about the experiences all teens face in life, but are too afraid to ask. This is your teen sex education resource to information about sexual health, relationships, and issues that affect teens and young adults today.  TeenSource has been created by teens for teens.

Teenwire.com is an award-winning sexual health Web site for teens. We are committed to giving you the facts about sex so that you can use this information to make your own responsible choices. We provide honest and nonjudgmental information about sexuality in language you can understand with the hope that you will use this knowledge to reduce your risk of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Teenwire.com is the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Web site for teens and is staffed by professionals who are dedicated to providing the information you need.

Information about pharmacy access to EC without a prescription

The ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project protects everyone's right to make informed decisions free from government interference about whether and when to become a parent.

"The California Constitution explicitly protects reproductive privacy, making the state a relative safe haven for women who make the difficult choice to end a pregnancy. The ACLU of Northern California worked hard to secure this right. We continue to use litigation, legislative advocacy, public education, and grassroots organizing to protect and advance the rights of all California women to make informed personal decisions about childbearing."

The California Adolescent Health Collaborative (AHC) is a public-private statewide coalition with the goal of increasing understanding and support for adolescent health and wellness in California. As a coalition of representatives from public and private agencies, we are committed to a comprehensive, assets-based, multidisciplinary approach to improving the health and well-being of California youth.

The Adolescent Health Working Group is a coalition of committed youth, adults, and representatives of public and private agencies whose mission is to significantly advance the health and well being of San Francisco’s youth. The AHWG has developed a number of resources for providers and youth, including youth curricula and its provider toolkit series. You can download and print all of these resources for free from this website.

Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world.

CFHC carries out its mission by coordinating and supporting the delivery of health services in community-based organizations throughout California. The organization directs funding for providers of family health services, performs advanced research in reproductive health care and contraception, conducts education, training and community outreach efforts, and tests, implements and monitors effective programs.

CFHC’s site for teens: Teensource

Their website contains a public resources page with information on minor consent and access to records, among other things. 

The California School Health Centers Association (CSHC) promotes the health and academic success of children and youth by increasing access to the high quality health care and support services provided by school health centers.

The California Women’s Law Center (CWLC) works to ensure, through systemic change, that life opportunities for women and girls are free from unjust social, economic, and political constraints.

“The Center for Adolescent Health & the Law is a unique national organization that works exclusively to promote the health of adolescents and their access to comprehensive health care. The Center addresses a broad range of complex legal and policy issues that affect access to health care for the most vulnerable youth in the United States. The Center provides information and analysis, publications, consultation, and training to health professionals, policy makers, researchers and advocates who are working to protect the health of our adolescents.”

“If you're looking for information about health care coverage and services you've come to the right place. At the Health Consumer Alliance (HCA) we help low-income Californians get the health care they need. We have consumer brochures on a wide range of topics, in 14 different languages.”

Maternal and Child Health Access (MCHA) is dedicated to ensuring meaningful access to health and social services for low-income women and their families and to helping them improve the quality of their lives. 

MCHA provides information, support, and technical assistance to health and social service organizations, assists individual women to achieve healthy pregnancies and obtain quality health care for themselves and their children, and educates policymakers and the general public to improve the health and social services systems for all low income women and families and to benefit the entire community in which we live.

The National Health Law Program is a national public interest law firm that seeks to improve health care for America's working and unemployed poor, minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities. NHeLP serves legal services programs, community-based organizations, the private bar, providers and individuals who work to preserve a health care safety net for the millions of uninsured or underinsured low-income people.

Reproductive health related information

Since 1999, Pharmacy Access Partnership has been establishing collaborative relationships between pharmacists, community healthcare providers and women’s health advocates.  Pharmacy Access Partnership’s purpose is to expand consumer access to contraceptive commodities and reproductive health services in pharmacies, and to give pharmacies a stronger role in promoting community health.

"Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California (PPAC) represents nine separately incorporated Planned Parenthood affiliates throughout California on statewide governmental issues.  PPAC actively follows state and federal legislation in a number of public policy arenas and promotes education, counseling and clinical services in the fields of reproductive health care and family planning. We monitor administrative, legislative and regulatory actions, including statewide and local initiatives. PPAC also engages in electoral or political activity as allowed by law and provides technical assistance to affiliates regarding government health care programs."

Planned Parenthood site for teens:  www.teenwire.org

Founded in 1992, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH) is a national network of pro-choice physicians who are committed to providing and advocating for the best possible care for patients . PRCH exists to ensure that all people have the knowledge, access to quality services and freedom to make their own reproductive health decisions.