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Jobs/Careers | Health | Pregnancy and Sex | Advice and Counseling | Substances | Money | Violence | GLBT (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Tansgender) | Hot Wheels | Advocacy and Volunteering
Jobs/Careers
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
What do you like?? Exploring Career Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Career Cruising
Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. If you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training, you've come to the right place!
Career Guide to Industries
A comprehensive overview of the major industries, such as manufacturing, agriculture and the arts. Look to this resource for job outlook and projections, salary expectations and educational requirements. A great place to start for students who are unsure about specific job titles and need to look at broader categories.
Find Applications.com
Find and download the job application you need. This site contains mostly fast food & restaurant applications in a format you can print and download. Apply for the job you want today. By printing an application, and showing up to a prospective employee with your completed application, you will often increase your chances of employment.
Guide to the Business of Babysitting
Everything you need to know about being a successful babysitter is available on this site, from planning play activities to great business practices.
Higher Learning=Higher Earnings
This online brochure gives a sobering statistical explanation about the value of attending and graduating from college, including quality of life expectation comparisons and contrasts. Are you thinking about not going to college? Take a look at this before making your decision.
Learning Express Library. Writing and math courses, practice tests for the ACT and SAT tests,resume and cover letter courses,and more. Instant grading and evaluation of writing samples. Improve your grades and get into the college of your choice.
MyFirstPaycheck
Employment help and jobs for teens
Occupational Outlook Handbook
"Revised every two years, the Occupational Outlook Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations."
Quintessential Careers
Named as one of "the top 50 most awesome websites for teens" by NextSTEP Magazine, this
site offers help in finding a summer job or the right college, as well as
financial aid resources. If you're a teen thinking about your future, this
is a great place to start!
SnagAJob.com
"Want to find part-time jobs for the
spring? Ready to start looking for summer jobs? The traditional methods of
job searching have been replaced. SnagAJob.com is now your source for
finding part-time and seasonal jobs."
SummerJobs.com
A job database for high school and college students (or anyone else) looking for interesting part-time work or internships during the summer. Listings for Pennsylvania and the northeast, Company profiles and comments from past participants are available. Also links for other states and around the world
Teenager's Guide to the Real World - Careers
The Teenager's Guide to the Real World provides great information for teens on choosing a career for the future. Check out the useful links in helping plan your life after graduation.
Health
4Girls Health
Current health information for girls age 10-16.
Ask Zen
Topics include medical concerns, emotional health, substance abuse and nutrition.
Cool Nurse
Articles and links to health-related information including sexuality, mental health, male health, social life and binge drinking. Good list of toll-free hotline numbers.
Consumer Health Complete
Premium Subscription resource, find realiable health information from medical books and publications.
iEmily.com
A health and wellness site just for girls! Get information, read girls' personal stories (you can submit yours by going to My Story!) or take a quiz and then rearrange your room the Feng Shui way!
TeenGrowth
Find answers to questions about your health.
TeensHealth.org
Indexed articles and links about nutrition, physical and psychological health, sex, staying safe, health problems and more. Hot Topics look at what other teens are reading today. The daily quiz gets your mind working!
Pregnancy and Sex
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Straightforward information for teens and parents regarding pregnancy and pregnancy prevention. Many different links to government and nonprofit sites spanning all kinds of religious and secular views. Girl Scouts, Focus on the Family, Girls, Inc.
Sex, Etc.
A sexuality and health newsletter written by teens for teens.
Teenwire
Planned Parenthood's site for teens has information about sexuality, health and relationships.
Advice and Counseling
Raven Days
All about bullying, especially in school, from why to how to deal with it to other options for schooling - get out of high school fast.
SmartGirl
This web site is written by the teenage girls who visit the site. Read or write reviews on virtually anything, from books to body care, or talk about topics of interest with other girls on the web site's discussion boards.
SuicideHotlines.com
Provides phone numbers for county and city help lines for each state.
Substances
Al-Anon and Alateen
A national web site to help the families and friends of alcoholics.
Freevibe.com
This site will give you information on specific drugs, answer your drug-related questions, and give you the opportunity to speak out.
I Quit!
Download the "I Quit" booklet to help you stop smoking.
Partnership for a Drug-Free America
This cool site will give you the lowdown on specific drugs, answer your drug-related questions, and give you the opportunity to speak out.
Money
I Buy Different
Part of the Be, Live, Buy Different Campaign, a new national program from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Center for a New American Dream, which teaches young people how to make a difference by buying differently.
Jump$tart Coalition
Take a short test to find out what kind of life you want to live and what it will take you to get there.
Motley Fool
The best ways for teens to save and make money. Learn investing and what to expect from it...and how to become a millionaire!
The NEFE Teen Resource Bureau (NTRB)
This site was designed by a few twenty-somethings and a select group of teenagers to help you determine the best way to handle money, buy a car, pay for college, and more.
Violence
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
Most links and articles are related to youth violence - bullying, suicide, guns, dating. Toll free number and e-mail available.
GLBT (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender
PA Diversity Network
Includes youth services information.
OutProud - Be Yourself
National Coalition for Gay, Les, Bi & Transgender Youth. Articles, news, book selections and an online zine for youth.
Youth Resource
Offers support, community, resources, and peer-to-peer education about issues of concern to GLBT questioning young people.
Hot Wheels
Car Maintenance 4 Teens
You know how to pump gas, check out this site with tips how to maintain a safe car. Buying a used car? Get help here.<
PENNOT - DUI Enforcement
You've heard the stories, now get the facts. Drinking and driving don't mix.
Auto Repair Reference Center
Ok you're ready for wheels now where to start? Everything you need to know
about cars, increase your AutoIQ with tutorials and videos.
Driver Handbooks
Every handbook and publication they make for teens ready to download in PDF format.
Driver License Offices
Which PA DMV locations do drivers tests?
Beginning Teenage Drivers
From the National Health and Traffic Safety Administration. Info for teen drivers.
Teen Driver Safety
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of teen fatalities in America. Based on miles driven, teenagers are involved in three times as many fatal crashes as all other drivers. Specific behaviors are associated with the cause of this high fatality rate.
Advocacy and Volunteering
Think. Your cause. Your Effect
Current issues information from MTV.com.
Rock the Vote
Rock the Vote is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that engages youth in the political process by incorporating the entertainment community and youth culture into its activities.
Vegan Outreach
Ultimately, living with compassion means striving to maximize the good we accomplish, not following a set of rules or trying to fit a certain label. From eating less meat to being vegan, our actions are only a means to an end: decreasing suffering.
Youth Free Expression Network
The Youth Free Expression Network is a national coalition of teens and adults committed to defending the free expression rights of youth. Faced with Internet filters, "abstinence-only" sex education, and other restrictions on young people's access to ideas, YFEN's goal is to empower youth to advocate on their own behalf.
Youth Service America
Resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people.
Youth Volunteer Network
Volunteer stories, tips on how to be heard, and a database of current volunteer opportunities.
YouthNOISE
This web site encourages you to "Make some Noise!" by taking action to make a difference. Find out about current issues such as politics, education, animal rights, gun violence, and homelessness. Speak out by posting your opinions on a message board or read what others have to say.
