Websites
Connect with Others Who Have Been There
Online anonymous message board where you can ask questions, get professional guidance, support, and connect with others like you. (Age 18+ only).
Mental Health
Peer-to-peer platform about mental health
Anxiety and Depression of America
Anxiety United - Mental Health Network
7 GIFs to Help Relax Your Anxious Mind
How to recognize and help someone who is struggling with their mental health
Online community dedicated to ending the stigma toward teenagers who suffer from mental health issues.
Encouraging conversation around mental health issues
Mental health support services
Using text messages to improve mental and emotional health
Depression and BiPolar Support Alliance
In collaboration with Harvard Health Publications, HelpGuide has become a globally accredited online resource by serving more than 80 million people annually.
Resources for all mental health needs
Take control of your emotional health.
Information, tools, and resources to help handle stress and become more mindful
Anxiety management program based on cognitive-behavioral therapy.
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Information about and treatments around trauma informed care
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality
National Institute of Mental Health
Finding a safe place nationwide
Focused on eliminating the stigma around mental health
We aim to increase awareness and improve access to treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders throughout Southern California.
Safe alternative to self harm
Outreach program and community of support for youth age 12-26 to relieve anxiety and improve the lives of young people
Self injury treatment approach
Take 2 Minutes out of your day for your mental health. We will text you daily positive messages and activities to help support your daily mental wellbeing
Info and advice with no judgement resource center
A digital health community created to compassionately empower people dealing with health challenges and disabilities
On-line resource for college mental health
Trusted mental health information from A-Z
Bullying
Helping teen girls overcome bullying and build emotional resilience and bloom into confidence as leaders.
Eating disorders
Adolescent Clinic-UCSD Eating Disorders Center
Adolescent Eating Disorder Program
Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness
Eating disorder site focused on art and creative expression
Resource information for all eating disorders
Support for parents with an eating disorder child
National Eating Disorder Association
Giving support for those with eating disorders
A great deal of support for all stages of recovery
Out patient eating disorder therapy and support
Family and relationships
Connects people to community resources across the country
Call and talk to a caring listener for free emotional support 24/7
Family help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics
Inspires and supports young people to build healthy relationships without abuse
Provides carefully researched health information to boys and young men
Center for Young Women’s Health
Provides teens and young women carefully researched health information, educational programs and conferences
Helps get a better understanding of emotions to help with communication
Community-based programs and education to help stop domestic and child abuse
Domestic violence site to help prevent and end dating abuse
National Center for Learning Disabilities
National Domestic Violence Hotline
national institute of mental health
Resources for mental health, know the 5 signs.
Providing support and education for sexual and domestic violence, child abuse and youth violence prevention
RAINN: Rape, Abuse, Incest, National Network
Helping to improve the lives of those affected by sexual abuse
Anti Violence program safety tips
Doctor reviewed information and insight into teen health
Educates and brings awareness to teens and parents about various health issues - physical, mental, emotional, social, sexual, drugs and alcohol
Decreasing teen dating violence due to technology and increase awareness for healthy relationships online
Treehouse creates opportunities for young people in foster care to thrive.
Support for those with learning issues and their families
Promotes safe and healthy relationships and supports survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and sex trafficking
lgbtqia+
Youth-led community built by and for trans/gender-expansive homeschoolers
information and support for intersex individuals and their community
Stories and information to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ+ youth around
the globe.
A support network for LGBTQ youth providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention,
including a 24-hour text line (text “START” to 678678)
Trevor Lifeline - 1-866-488-7386
Trans student Education Resources
Online community offering LGBTQ+ youth a safe place to start a conversation
Mentorship
Smoke/vape free
Helps students kick smoking, vaping, and smokeless tobacco (CA residents only)
Online program to help teens stop using tobacco
Truth Initiative: This is Quitting
Text messaging program to help young people quit vaping.
Substance Abuse
Provides information on addiction treatment recovery and more
Al-anon family help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics
Online meetings
Information, resources, and treatment
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Addiction
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute of fetal alcohol syndrome
Never Alone Addiction Treatment Center
Never Alone offers a unique, camplike treatment experience built exclusively for adolescents ages 12-17 struggling with drugs, alcohol and related mental health issues like anxiety, depression, or trauma.
Empowers people to recovery from addiction problems with their 4-point recovery system. Offers self-empowering free mutual support meetings.
Support for overcoming substance abuse
substance Abuse and mental health services administration
Treatment center locator
Suicide prevention
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Volunteer Action to Prevent Suicide
Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention
Suicide prevention kit, providing awareness and education
International Suicide Hotline listings
Suicide prevention for students
Suicidal thoughts, strong cravings? Problems that feel unsolvable…
We’ve been there NowMattersNow.org hacks suffering
Member of the International Association for Suicide Prevention
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
For teens who have a problem or just want to talk
Protecting emotional health, preventing suicide
therapy
Offering Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP), a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), for the treatment of anxiety-based disorders including panic, social phobia, school refusal, OCD, eating disorders and BDD.
Online counseling platform
Resource to find a local therapist
Find a therapist
Free resources