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Planned Parenthood of Southwest & Central Florida, Inc.
Learn about available health services offered at our Sarasota, Tampa, Ft. Myers, Lakeland, Winter Haven and St. Petersburg health centers. View current special events, learn how you can get involved with local reproductive health rights or how to donate to your local Planned Parenthood affiliate.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America
The world's largest and most trusted voluntary family planning organization. We believe that everyone has the right to choose when or whether to have a child – and that every child should be wanted and loved.

Teenwire
An award-winning sexual health Web site for teens. Teen Wire is committed to giving you the facts about sex so that you can use this information to make your own responsible choices and provides 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. Important information is also available in Spanish through the "En Español" section of the site.

Advocates For Youth
Established in 1980 as the Center for Population Options, Advocates for Youth champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates believes it can best serve the field by boldly advocating for a more positive and realistic approach to adolescent sexual health.

I Wanna Know
A teen health and awareness website designed to provide fingertip access to dynamic and reliable sexual health information for teens and offers a parent guide to help adults discuss sensitive matters with teens.

Teen Advice
A teen advice website designed to provide support to teenage problems through a network of peers from around the globe.

Talking With Kids
This website encourages parents to talk to their children earlier and more often about difficult issues such as sexuality, HIV/AIDS, violence and alcohol/substance abuse.

Coalition for Positive Sexuality
This website gives teens the information they need to take care of themselves and in so doing affirm their decisions about sex, sexuality, and reproductive control; second, to facilitate dialogue in and out of the public schools on condom availability and sex education.

Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice! is a health Q&A Internet service. It works to provide readers with reliable, accessible information and a range of thoughtful perspectives so that they can make responsible decisions concerning their health and well-being.

The Red Spot
This website is all about periods (menstration), but cannot replace your doctor's advice. The Red Spot is a gathering place for the knowledge and experience that women gain about their periods over time, however, this website is not a medical resource.

KidsHealth

KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents — each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. There are literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources — all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens.

Sex Etc.
Honest, medically accurate and balanced information about sexuality in schools, homes and communities. Teen-to-teen communication educating about sexual health serving Educators and youth-serving professionals who need training and support.

Teen Pregnancy
Teen Pregnancy's mission is to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families by reducing teen pregnancy. The goal of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by one-third between 2006 and 2015.

Youth - I think I might be gay...
A brochure for young men -- information for gay youth and young men questioning their sexuality.

Youth - I think I might be lesbian...
A brochure for young women -- information for lesbian youth and young women questioning their sexuality.

Oasis Magazine
The online webzine about and for coming "out." Message boards, blogs, polls, etc.

PFLAG
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights.

Gurze Books
Amazing online resource for educators looking for information about body image and eating disorders.