Health Services

WEB LINKS
Where to Find Help & Information
 
Club Drugs
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
 
California Alliance Against Domestic Violence A statewide coalition of battered women's advocates, including information about California legislation and welfare reform.
Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence A national organization working with clergy and faith communities to prevent domestic violence and sexual assault.
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community A national network working on research and prevention of domestic violence in the African American Community.
National Domestic Violence Hotline Available 24 hours a day throughout the country: 1-800-199-SAFE, TDD: 800-787-3224. The Hotline provides crisis intervention, information about domestic violence and referrals to local service providers to victims of domestic violence and those calling on their behalf.
Safe Network Web-based resource for domestic violence agencies and prevention programs in California.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Go Ask Alice! Covers relationships, emotional health, fitness and nutrition, alcohol-nicotine-and other drugs, general health.
The Virtual Health Center The Virtual Health Center: an on-line resource. Here you'll find links to sites that will give you current information on health care issues. Sponsored by Health Services Association of California Community Colleges.
Health Central Health information from A to Z.

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SEXUAL HEALTH
  

The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)

 

 This website offers an interactive program to help you choose a birth control method that's right for you. It also offers general information about abstinence, barrier methods, fertility awareness, implants, injections, intrauterine methods, oral contraceptives, spermicides, sterilization, the contraceptive patch, vaginal ring, vasectomy, and emergency contraception. Finally a comparison chart is provided to display how much birth control methods cost and now effective they are.
Go Ask Alice! Questions and answer service at Columbia University that pioneered explicit, honest, reliable sexual health information
Its Your (Sex) Life Collaboration between MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation. Great sexual health and information news headlines, recent research, as well as emergency information about what to do about unprotected intercourse and static information on contraception, STDs, and safer sex.
 Advocates for Youth Mission is to help young people make safe and responsible decisions about sex. Includes fact sheets with statistics about latest trends and resources.
True Love Waits Promotes benefits of abstinence
American Social Health Association Their mission is to eradicate STD's. ASHA operates the National AIDS hotline and STD hotline in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control, and on their own, they the National Herpes hotline and a real and virtual herpes resource center.

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