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HelpingTeens.org: Resources
Last Updated: January 17, 2007

On this page you will find a list of resources that may be able to give professional assistance for your problems and/or questions. You're welcome to visit our Support Groups and our Live Chat as well.

Quick Links:
National Adolescent Suicide Hotline
Phone: 1-800-621-4000

Distress/Suicide Helpline (Canadian)
Phone: 1-800-232-7288

National Suicide Hotline
Phone: 1-888-248-2587

Suicide Prevention
Phone: 1-800-SUICIDE

The National Mental Health Association
WebSite: www.nmha.org
Phone: 1-800-969-NMHA (TTY: 1-800-433-5959)

The National Mental Health Information Center
WebSite: www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/
Phone: 1-888-7-WE-HELP

Yellow Ribbon Project
WebSite: www.yellowribbon.org
Phone: 303-429-3530

American Association of Suicidology
WebSite: www.suicidology.org

A-Way-Out
Phone: 1-800-292-9688
National Institutes of Mental Health - Depression Awareness
WebSite: www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm
Phone: 1-800-421-4211

Youth Crisis Hotline
Phone: 1-800-448-4663
Addict-Help
Website: www.addict-help.com

Alcoholics Anonymous
WebSite: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org

Narcotics Anonymous
WebSite: www.na.org

Al-Anon/Alateen Family Group Services
WebSite: www.al-anon.org
Phone: 1-888-425-2666

Substance Abuse Treatment Routing Service
Phone: 1-800-662-HELP

National Council on Alcoholism
Phone: 1-800-662-2255

National Helpline
Phone: 1-800-262-2463

National Association for Children of Alcoholics
WebSite: www.nacoa.net
Phone: 1-888-554-2627

ADCARE hospital helpline
Phone: 1-800-252-6465

Alcohol and drug helpline
Phone: 1-800-821-4357

American Council on Alcoholism
Phone: 1-800-527-5344

Calix Society
Phone: 1-800-398-0524

National Clearinghouse for Alchol and Drug Info
Phone: 1-800-729-6686
Phone2: 1-800-487-4889

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.
Phone: 1-800-874-2572

National Woman's Christian Temerance Union
Phone: 1-800-755-1321

Drug Help
Phone: 1-800-378-4435
Phone2: 1-800-202-2463

Housing and Urban Development Drug Info and Strategy Clearinghouse
Phone: 1-800-955-2232

National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
Phone: 1-800-269-4237

Drugs telephone information service (UK)
Phone: 0141 4201188
  Abuse
Friends of Battered Women and their Children
Phone: 1-800-603-4357

Emergency Shelter for Battered Women (& Their Children)
Phone: 1-888-291-6228 (24 hour hotline)

National Domestic Violence Hotline
WebSite: www.ndvh.org
Phone: 1-800-799-7233 (TTY: 1-800-787-3224)

Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
WebSite: www.rainn.org
Phone: 1-800-656-4673

Childhelp USA National Child Abuse Hotline
Phone: 1-800-422-4453

Violence Prevention Resources
www.child.net/violence.htm
Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
WebSite: www.rainn.org
Phone: 1-800-656-4673

Rape Hotline
Phone: 1-818-793-3385
  Women
Endometriosis Association
Phone: 1-800-992-3636

National Osteoporosis Foundadtion
Phone: 1-800-223-9994

National Women's Health Info Center
Phone: 1-800-994-9662

PMS access
Phone: 1-800-222-4764

Women's Health America Group
Phone: 1-800-558-7046

Women's Sports Foundation
Phone: 1-800-227-3988

Young Women's Health
WebSite: www.youngwomenshealth.org
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
WebSite: www.plannedparenthood.com
Phone: 1-800-230-PLAN
National Domestic Violence Hotline
WebSite: www.ndvh.org
Phone: 1-800-799-7233 (TTY: 1-800-787-3224)

National Organization for Victim Assistance
Phone: 1-800-879-6682
The National Mental Health Association
WebSite: www.nmha.org
Phone: 1-800-969-NMHA (TTY: 1-800-433-5959)
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
WebSite: www.missingkids.com
Phone: 1-800-843-5678

Child Find
WebSite: www.childfindofamerica.org
Phone: 1-800-I-AM-LOST
Phone2: 1-800-A-WAY-OUT

Interface
WebSite: www.icfs.org

National Child Watch Campaign
Phone: 1-800-222-1464
National Runaway Hotline
Phone: 1-800-621-4000

Child Find
WebSite: www.childfindofamerica.org
Phone: 1-800-I-AM-LOST
Phone2: 1-800-A-WAY-OUT

Interface
WebSite: www.icfs.org

National Child Watch Campaign
Phone: 1-800-222-1464

Vanished Children's Alliance
WebSite: www.vca.org
Phone: 1-800-826-4743

Children of the Night
Phone: 1-800-551-1300

National Runaways Switchboard
WebSite: www.nrscrisisline.org
Phone: 1-800-621-4000

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
WebSite: www.missingkids.com
Phone: 1-800-843-5678
American Association of Retired Persons
WebSite: www.aarp.org
Phone: 1-800-424-3410

Eldercare Locator Info & Refferral Line
Phone: 1-800-677-1116

Medicare
WebSite: www.medicare.gov

National Council of Aging
WebSite: www.ncoa.org

Eldercare Locator
WebSite: www.eldercare.gov
Phone: 1-800-677-1116

National Institute on Aging Info Center
WebSite: www.nia.nih.gov
Phone: 1-800-222-2225
Gay & Lesbian Youth Talkline
Phone: 818-508-1802

Gay, Bi, or Questioning Teens
WebSite: www.outproud.org

Free To Be Me
WebSite: www.freetobeme.com

YouthResource: A Project of Advocates For Youth
WebSite: www.youthresource.com
Phone: 202-419-3420

What You Do
WebSite: www.whatudo.org

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
WebSite: www.glsen.org

Bulimia/Anorexia Self-help Hotline
Phone: 1-800-227-4785

National Eating Disorders Association
603 Stewart Street, Suite 803
Seattle, WA 98101-1264
Ph. (206) 382-3587
Fax (206) 829-8501
Toll-Free Information & Referral Helpline 1-800-931-2237
www.NationalEatingDisorders.org



Eating Disorder Awareness and Prevention
WebSite: www.edap.org

Eating Disorders and How to Get Help
WebSite: www.caringonline.com

National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Related Disorders
WebSite: www.anad.org
Phone: 847-831-3438 *not toll-free, but will call you back if you cant afford the call*


Aids HotLine
Phone: 1-800-922-2437

AIDS Clinical Trials Info Service
Phone: 1-800-874-2572

CDC National HIV/AIDS hotline
Phone: 1-800-342-2437(English)
Phone2: 1-800-344-7432(Spanish)

CDC National Prevention Info Network
Phone: 1-800-458-5231

HIV/AIDS Treatment Info Center
Phone: 1-800-HIV-0440

Project Inform National HIV/AIDS Treatment Hotline
Phone: 1-800-822-7422

National STD Hotline
Phone: 1-800-227-8922

Herpes Resource Center
Phone: 1-800-230-6039

Young Women's Health
WebSite: www.youngwomenshealth.org
American Red Cross
Phone: 1-800-HELP-NOW

Make a Wish Foundation
WebSite: www.wish.org
Phone: 1-800-722-9474

Organ Donor Hotline
Phone: 1-800-243-6667

Volunteers of America
Phone: 1-800-899-0089
Red Cross Crisis Prevention
Phone: 1-800-435-7669

Covenant House Hotline
WebSite: www.covenanthouse.org
WebSite2: www.covenanthouse.com
Phone: 1-800-999-9999

Girls And Boys Town National Hotline
WebSite: www.girlsandboystown.org
Phone: 1-800-448-3000

Youth Crisis Hotline
Phone: 1-800-448-4663

Crisis Intervention Program, St. Joseph's Crisis Unit
Sudbury Regional Hospital
Sudbury, Ontario
Phone: 905-675-4760 (24 Hour Crisis Line)

Family Counselling Centre
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
N7T 6Z7
Phone: 519 336-0120 (Crisis Line)
Family/Children's Mental Health Hot Line
Phone: 1-800-654-1247 (24 hours)

OC Foundation (for obsessive-compulsive disorder)
Phone: 203-878-5669

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (Families of Mentally Ill)
Phone: 1-800-950-NAMI
The Grief Recovery Institute
Phone: 1-800-445-4808

Youth Crisis Hotline
Phone: 1-800-448-4663

Teen Age Grief Incoporated (TAG)
Phone: 818-997-0391