Where this comes from
TeenWell doesn't write health information. Everything on this site points to one of the 36 organizations below: 128 resources in total.
What it takes to get on this list
A source has to meet all four.
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1. Accountable
A named nonprofit, government agency, academic medical center, or professional clinical body. Not a blog, not a content farm, not an influencer, not a brand selling the thing it's describing.
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2. Editorially reviewed
Publishes a review process, cites evidence, or carries clinical review bylines.
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3. Age-appropriate
Written for, or genuinely usable by, a 13–18-year-old.
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4. Non-coercive
Doesn't exist to push you toward a decision that was made before you got there.
What we deliberately left out
- Crisis pregnancy centers. They present as medical clinics while withholding options. That fails the non-coercive test outright.
- Supplement, vape, and telehealth brands writing about the products they sell.
- Ad-supported symptom-checker sites. Their incentive is your attention, not your health.
- Pro-eating-disorder and self-harm communities, including content that presents as recovery but functions as instruction.
- Anything we couldn't verify. Every link is fetched and checked before it ships; anything that fails is dropped, not guessed at.
The organizations
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Published by Nemours Children's Health, a pediatric health system. Every article carries a physician review date, and the TeensHealth section is written at a genuine teen reading level.
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The largest reproductive health care provider in the US. Its teen-facing education pages are written by clinical staff and cover options without steering toward any one of them.
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Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Government agency 6 resources · EspañolA federal health agency office publishing plain-language, evidence-based material on menstruation, reproductive health, and body changes.
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An independent nonprofit publishing inclusive sex education written specifically for teens and young adults since 1998, widely cited by educators for meeting young people in their own language.
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The US national domestic violence hotline, operating since 1996 with trained advocates and a documented safety and confidentiality practice.
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The US public health agency. Primary source for STI, vaccination, sleep and adolescent health data and recommendations.
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The federal research institute that funds most US addiction science, with a dedicated teen-facing section that reports what the evidence shows rather than using scare messaging.
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A birth control support network from Power to Decide, a nonprofit research and education organization. Method information is medically reviewed and it sells nothing.
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An independent nonprofit researching how media and technology affect young people, publishing digital-wellbeing guidance backed by its own studies.
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The federal agency for substance use and mental health services. Operates the national helpline and the official treatment locator.
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The US national suicide and crisis line, administered by SAMHSA through a network of accredited local crisis centers.
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The national network of accredited poison control centers, staffed by nurses, pharmacists and toxicologists, offering free confidential guidance around the clock.
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Free 24/7 crisis support over text, the channel many teens will use when they will not make a phone call.
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A reproductive health policy research institute. The authoritative tracker of state-by-state minor consent and confidentiality law, which is the question teens ask most and almost nobody answers.
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The parent- and teen-facing site of the American Academy of Pediatrics, reflecting the clinical guidance US pediatricians are trained on.
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A project of the National Domestic Violence Hotline built specifically for young people, covering dating abuse with trained advocates available by phone, text and chat.
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The largest US grassroots mental health organization, providing a free helpline and plain-language explanations of conditions and treatment.
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Congressionally designated clearinghouse for child exploitation reports. Runs Take It Down, the free service that helps minors get intimate images removed from participating platforms.
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The federal research institute for alcohol science, publishing plain-language material on underage drinking and its effects on the developing brain.
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Published by Answer at Rutgers University and written by teen staff writers with adult editorial and medical review, so the reading level genuinely matches the audience.
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A nonprofit focused on emotional health and suicide prevention for teens and young adults, including guidance on how to start a hard conversation with a friend.
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The leading US crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ+ young people, with counselors trained specifically for that population and its own peer-reviewed research arm.
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A peer support line run by and for trans people, with a stated policy of not calling emergency services without the caller's consent.
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A long-established nonprofit focused on young people's sexual health rights and education, with material developed alongside youth activists rather than only about them.
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A collaboration between Advocates for Youth, Answer and YTH producing short animated sex-education videos for younger adolescents, the format that reaches teens who will not read an article.
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Center for Young Women's Health, Boston Children's Hospital
Clinical / hospital system 0 resources · EspañolRun by Boston Children's Hospital specifically for adolescent girls and young women. Guides are written and reviewed by the hospital's clinicians and pitched at a genuine teen reading level.
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An independent nonprofit clinical and research organization focused on children's mental health; its guides are written and reviewed by practicing clinicians.
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The National Library of Medicine's consumer health service. Carries no advertising, cites its sources, and is the closest thing to a neutral reference for any health topic.
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The oldest US eating disorder nonprofit, offering free peer support groups and a helpline at no cost.
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The largest US nonprofit for people affected by eating disorders, providing screening tools and treatment referrals reviewed by clinical advisors.
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A nonprofit providing free, evidence-based support to families facing substance use, with material aimed at both teens and the adults around them.
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The largest US anti-sexual-violence organization, operating the National Sexual Assault Hotline in partnership with local providers.
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StopBullying.gov, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Government agency 0 resources · EspañolThe federal interagency resource on bullying and cyberbullying, including what schools are legally required to do about it.
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A teen-to-teen support line where trained teenagers answer, supervised by mental health professionals, a lower barrier than an adult-staffed line.
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A tobacco-control nonprofit funded by the tobacco master settlement, not by industry. Runs the quit-vaping text program built specifically for teens.
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The companion site to the Center for Young Women's Health, also from Boston Children's Hospital. One of very few clinician-reviewed health resources written directly to teenage boys.
How we use their material
We don't copy articles. A result card shows the page's own title and its own meta description (the text publishers write specifically to appear in search results), and then links out. Where that text is too thin to help, we may add one short quote, capped at 300 characters and always attributed.
We check before we link. A build script fetches every URL, respects each site's robots.txt, and crawls slowly enough not to burden a nonprofit's servers. Anything that fails verification is left out of the index entirely.
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