Local Assistance and Resources

List of resources for teens in need; includes help with food, clothing, school, health, pregnancy, drug and alcohol treatment and school.

Community Resource List

Online Resources

• The Northwest Youth Networker newsletter from the InterNetwork for Youth covers youth-related activities and services and issues that affect teens in the Northwest. Download an issue with state-by-state and topic-by-topic information.

• The Ford Family Foundation, Select Books Program

• Find Mentoring resources at Mentoring.org.

Recommended Books

• Treating Explosive Kids-The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach by Ross W. Greene and J.Stuart Ablon
• What Your Explosive Child Is Trying To Tell You: Discovering The Pathway From Symptoms To Solutions by Douglas A. Riley
• The Explosive Child: A New Approach For Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene.
• I Hate You Don’t Leave Me: Understanding The Borderline Personality by Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Strauss
• CUT by Patricia McCormick
• All About Me: The Story of Your LIfe by Phillips Keel
• ME: Five Years From Now. The Life Planning Book You Write Yourself by Sheree Bykofsky