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Stress is a part of every teen’s life, even more so during intense challenges such as a pandemic, racial discrimination, and life transitions. However, uncontrolled stress can cause serious health problems and increase the risk that students may use drugs to attempt to deal with stressors, including...

This teaching guide discusses when taken as prescribed, prescription stimulants can safely and effectively treat ADHD. However, misusing them has serious health risks, including addiction. In this lesson, developed in partnership with Scholastic, students read the article “What You Need to Know...

Your child’s teenage years are an exciting time, but they can be tricky too. With hormones going wild and bigger pressures at school, challenging mood swings are par for the course. With mental ill-health on the rise though, you’ll want to keep watch on whether their moods are normal, or if they...

This infobrief explains how parents can help create a trusting relationship by allowing their teen one-on-one time with their healthcare provider.

The surveillance survey provides information on health behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States.

This video encourages young children and household contacts of TB patients to adhere to TB treatment to help prevent TB.

This webpage discusses how the physical changes of puberty are usually mostly over by the time your teen turns 16, but that doesn’t mean they’re finished growing up. Here are some tips for talking with your teen about their body, going to the doctor, and their body image.

This webpage discusses how middle-schoolers need you to set boundaries and be supportive to help them stay safe. Here’s how to talk about staying safe at school, out in the world, and online.

This webpage from Planned Parenthood covers discussion guides for parents:  Middle school is when your preteen starts asking questions like Who am I? What am I into? and start exploring their identity in all kinds of ways.