Teen Health Resources

The NAACP's Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics is a yearlong achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African-American high school students.

Mission is to organize, empower, and mobilize local faith communities to address quality-of-life issues such as education, youth recreation, public safety, and healthcare.

Services for young people ages 13-24 who are experiencing mental/behavioral health challenges.

Public health nurses provide a wide variety of health assessment, health promotion, and disease prevention services.

Mission is to provide teens with tools and training to produce stories and with the opportunity for their stories--told in their own voices--to be shared through a variety of media.

Peer-supported advocacy, education, and behavioral health services.

AYC is a juvenile justice system that provides Anchorage youth with opportunities for personal growth and an understanding of our legal system.

AYDC is a group of over 60 youth-serving organizations and interested individuals who promote and integrate strength-based approaches to prevent adolescent substance use and other risk behaviors. To learn more about AYDC, listen to this episode of KSKA's Line One: Your Health Connection.

Nongovernmental, scientific body within the National Academies of Sci­ences, Engineering, and Medicine that convenes top experts from mul­tiple disciplines to analyze the best available evidence on critical issues facing children, youth, and families today.

Dedicated to improving the health, safety, and overall wellbeing of Native American youth through communication, policy development, and advocacy.

Nonprofit for young people and social change.

Website produced in collaboration by the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

International organization dedicated to advancing the health and wellbeing of adolescents.

Dedicated to creating, promoting, and recognizing youth involvement in communities across Alaska.

Program that seeks to promote positive youth development and prevent or reduce negative health outcomes.

U.S. government website that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs.

A group of teens ages 14-18 from across Alaska who are interested in health and are enthusiastic about shaping how our state responds to youth issues.