Youth Advisory Board Resources

New Transition Resource for Teens: A Mental Health Checklist you can use for planning your IEP transition services

Links by Topic

Do Something: Young People Changing Their World
Global Youth Action Network
Kids As Self Advocates
KidsCounsel: Center for Children's Advocacy
Listen Up! Youth Media Network
National Youth Leadership Council: Service-Learning's Homepage
ScenariosUSA - Kids Creating Social Change
A little bit of info from their website... Scenarios USA aims to inspire youth to make healthier and safer decisions by offering them a creative approach to thinking through and discussing their choices, their dreams, and their future.
Scenarios asks youth to write scripts and stories about issues which shape their lives, including HIV/AIDS, teen pregnancy, relationships, sexual orientation, peer pressure, and communication as part of the Scenarios 'What's the Real Deal?' writing contest. The winning writers, partnered with Hollywood filmakers, produce their stories into high-quality, short films in their home towns... (More on the website.)
To go directly to a list of their films: http://www.scenariosusa.com/movies/
From their website: "...without a doubt the hippest, best-edited, most entertaining sex ed videos ever made. The movies are relevant because the scripts are written by teens for teens."

The purpose of Organized Chaos is to provide you with a "teens/young adults-only" Web Site for learning about OCD from each other, and from treatment providers. You'll be given the tools needed to overcome the isolation OCD often fosters, and a forum for creatively expressing your personal trials, tribulations and triumphs.