Links - Youth Culture: General
Edopter
Another new development in our rapidly changing culture, this is a site dedicated to “social trendcasting,” where visitors discover and share new trends in fashion, music, lifestyle, design and “pretty much anything else.” The site is a virtual soapbox for visitors to tout and promote the next big thing.
Connect With Kids
Connect with Kids offers great resources for parents and educators. The site features articles, videos, and a free newsletter tracking the latest in trends among today's youth culture. Parents can join a parenting community and educators will find educational offerings. Information about the Connect with Kids television program is also available.
Postsecret
Increasing in popularity, this site is the online home to an ongoing community art project that encourages people to mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. New and creative secrets are posted everyday. The site has already yielded a best-selling book. A fascinating site to visit. Note: May contain graphic images.
The Teenage Tightrope
From Dr. David Fraze at
National Adolescent Health Information Center
The overall goal of NAHIC is to improve the health of adolescents by serving as a national resource for adolescent health information and research, and to assure the integration, synthesis, coordination and dissemination of adolescent health-related information. The site features helpful data on adolescent health.
The Network on Transitions to Adulthood
www.transad.pop.upenn.edu/index.htm
Founded in 2000, this University of Pennsylvania organization examines the changing nature of early adulthood, and increased difficulty associated with transitioning from adolescence into the early adult years.
Great Transitions
http://www.carnegie.org/sub/pubs/reports/great_transitions/gr_intro.html
This online report represents the culmination of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development's ten years of research on the adolescent experience in contemporary culture. The site contains a synthesis of "the best available knowledge and wisdom about adolescence in America."
Youth Intelligence
This company is one of many tracking youth culture for the purpose of market research. The site is a gateway into the resources and services that are the fruit of “investigating the lives and interpreting the behavior of Gen X and Gen Y.”
Trend Central
A sister-site to Youth Intelligence, this site provides the latest news in trends among Gen X and Gen Y. A free daily e-mail is also available.
Paul Robertson/Youth Unlimited
We're happy to announce the launch of a new website from Paul Robertson, an associate staff member at CPYU. Paul is the Youth Culture Specialist for Youth Unlimited in Toronto, Canada. His new website is filled with valuable youth culture statistics. You will also find archived newsletters with an insightful look into today's contemporary youth culture. A must-visit site for youth workers, especially those working in Canada.
www.readthetattoo.com
Begun in 1994 with a small group of teen writers in
Center for Youth and Family Ministry
This is a new site from Fuller Theological Seminary's Center for Youth and Family Ministry. A site that's sure to grow, visitors can expect practical and cutting-edge scholarship and information on teenagers, youth culture, family ministry, etc. One we highly recommend.
Child & Family WebGuide
This is one of the largest clearinghouses of news and research relating to child development, and just about any other issue of concern to parents. Operated by Tufts University, the site has a great selection of articles and links dealing with a variety of teen issues, from bullying and anger management to drug abuse and eating disorders.
eCRUSH
Adolescents looking to understand and experience "love" could easily get hooked on this site. Visitors can post their pictures, confess their "crush," rate other member's looks, get love advice, take love quizzes, chat and learn pick up lines. The lonely and love hungry will find this site to be magnetic.
Foundation for Adolescent Development
This site, created by the Foundation for Adolescent Development contains a "teen issues" bulletin board as well as one for parents of adolescents.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Created by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, this site is loaded with 56 up-to-date and concise fact sheets on issues that effect children, teens, and families in today's world.
The Institute For Youth Development
http://www.youthdevelopment.org
IYD is a non-partisan, non-profit organization promoting a comprehensive risk avoidance message to youth for harmful risk behaviors that are linked: alcohol, drugs, sex tobacco and violence. The site is designed for professionals, parents and teens.
Search Institute
http://www.search-institute.org
Practical research, tools and resources from an organization that's been studying teen values, attitudes, behaviors and needs since the 1950's.
Passageway
This handsome and streamlined site is an outreach of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association. A Q&A page is offered where users can send a question to be answered by Passageway staff. The belief and grow links offer archived discussions of essential spiritual and lifestyle resources ranging from topics on attending church to suicide. Christians serving in the arts are also profiled.
RETROspective
This on-line parents' guide to youth culture comes from the Department of Health and Human Services. Includes helpful information on changes in youth culture, the power of music and media literacy.
Teenage Diaries
http://www.radiodiaries.org/teenagediaries.html
Hear firsthand about life as a teen from the group of teens National Public Radio sent around the country for a year to interview family and friends, keep an audio journal, and record the sounds of daily life.
Teenwire
Another online place for kids to find guidance on sexuality, relationships, and other issues facing teens today. On our most recent visit we found a section called "Your Johnson and You: The Lowdown on Male Anatomy." This is another good site for parents and youth workers as it offers a peek into what kids are learning about sexuality from mainstream culture. Planned Parenthood operates the site.
Character Counts
http://www.charactercounts.org
Character Counts is a nationwide non-profit initiative to support non-sectarian character education in order to foster honesty, caring, respect and responsibility among school students. The site includes articles, news, reviews and loads of other resources.
Encylopedia of Youth Studies
From Dean Borgman and the youth ministry crew at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, this is the online home of the Center for Youth Studies and their database of articles on contemporary youth culture. Valuable for parents, pastors, and youth workers.
International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry
Sure to expand, the site of this global organization is not so much for youth ministry practitioners, but for those doing research into youth ministry, youth culture, trends, etc. Included are on-line journals and links.
Youth Universtiy
http://www.youthuniverstiy.com
A monthly e-mail newsletter with "news, views and inside scoops about today's kids, tweens and teens" from the WonderGroup-a marketing organization that bills as "experts" in marketing to kids.
Barna Research Online
The Barna Organization has been providing cutting edge research on cultural trends, generations, and issues affecting the church for years. Now you can tap into a wealth of helpful Barna information and analysis through this website. You'll find ministry resources, information on seminars, in-depth analysis, and a section on data and trends.
Children's Defense Fund
http://www.childrensdefense.org
Site from the non-profit organization whose mission is to "leave no child behind and to ensure every child a healthy start, a head start, a fair start, a safe start and a moral start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities".
The McCreary Centre Society
The McCreary Centre Society is a non-profit organization that provides valuable resources about Canadian youth. Their mission is "to foster wider understanding of the importance of youth health, increase knowledge about youth health needs and issues, advocate for continuing commitment to youth health issues, and initiate and implement innovative projects which directly address unmet health needs of young people." Their facts and figures page includes helpful statistics.
Childstats.gov
The official site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Provides access to federal and state statistics, and reports on children and their families. A good source for current demographic statistics on today's youth culture.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
If you're looking for statistics and information on adolescent health issues (sexually transmitted diseases, teen violence, suicide, etc) this CDC site is thorough and up-to-date. The site features a search engine and an extensive list of links to other related sites.
Josephson Institute of Ethics
http://www.josephsoninstitute.org
The online home of an organization dedicated to "improve the ethical quality of society by advocating principled reasoning and ethical decision making." The site includes loads of resources and information on character education including their "Character Counts" initiative.
Kids Count
A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this site offers statistics, reports and a variety of other information on the economic, educational, social and physical status of children in the United States.
Youthlnfo
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/fysb/youthinfo/index.htm
Maintained by the US Department of Health and Human Services, this site includes profiles of America's youth, reports, stats, publications, and speeches on youth topics. In addition, there's a list of resources for parents and links to related sites.
Society For Adolescent Medicine
http://www.adolescenthealth.org
SAM is a multidisciplinary organization of professionals committed to improving the physical and psychosocial health and well-being of all adolescents. Includes resources, publications, research content, and tips for both parents and teens on issues related to the emerging generation and their health.