Health / Support
Helplines, Chatrooms, and Discussion Groups
Counseling
Share Your Story
Body Image and Eating Disorders
Bullying and Harassment
Coming Out
Cutting and Self-Injury
Depression
Domestic Violence
Homelessness
Juvenile Justice System
Rape and Sexual Assault
Sexual Health
Suicide
- Helplines, Chatrooms, and Discussion Groups back up
- Connect online with blogs, discussion groups and chatrooms for lgbtq youth.
www.mogenic.com - Empty Closets
A safe place to chat.
emptyclosets.com/forum/ - Outminds
Safe forum for lgbtq youth to connect.
www.outminds.com/ - PFLAG members who have gone through what you are going through would be happy to listen and talk right now.
Please call:
Triangle Area - (919) 929-0192
Raleigh Area - (919) 434-3080
Rocky Mount and East - (252) 442-7423
www.pflagtriangle.org/ - National 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention helpline aimed at gay and questioning youth.
www.thetrevorproject.org/helpline.aspx
Helpline: 866.488.7386 (866.4.U.TREVOR) - Teen Line
(310) 855-HOPE, (818) 432-2266 (6-10pm PST)
www.teenlineonline.org/ - Rape Crisis 1.800.656.HOPE (4673)
- Self Injury 1.800.DON'T.CUT (366.8288)
- Suicide Hotline 1.800.273.TALK, 1.800.SUICIDE (784.2433)
- Domestic Violence 1.800.799.SAFE (7233)
- Gay & Lesbian 1.888.THE.GLNH (843.4564)
- Child Abuse 1.800.4.A.CHILD (422.4453)
- Connect online with blogs, discussion groups and chatrooms for lgbtq youth.
- Counseling back up
- Carolyn Stevenson, LCSW, MDiv
Durham
919.699.4933
carolyn@carolynstevenson.com
carolynstevenson.com - Renee Avis MA, LPC
Cary
919.272.3799
renee@carybehavioral.com
www.carybehavioral.com
- Carolyn Stevenson, LCSW, MDiv
- Body Image and Eating Disorders back up
- Body Image: from the Eating Disorder Information Center
www.edreferral.com/body_image.htm#
improving%20body%20image - Body Positive
Boosting body image at any weight.
www.bodypositive.com/ - Something Fishy
Awareness and support to people with eating disorders, and their loved ones.
www.something-fishy.org/default.php - National Eating Disorders Association
News and information.
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
- Body Image: from the Eating Disorder Information Center
- Bullying and Harassment back up
- LGBT Harassment
info from Northern Illinois University
www.cedu.niu.edu/~shumow/iit/
LGBT_Harassment.pdf
- LGBT Harassment
- Coming Out back up
- Coming Out to Your Parents
www.outproud.org/
brochure_coming_out.html - Coming out to yourself and others.
www.couns.uiuc.edu/brochures/
comout.htm - Empty Closets
Coming Out Resources and a Safe Place to Chat.
emptyclosets.com/forum/
- Coming Out to Your Parents
- Cutting and Self-Injury back up
- Information, support, and more resources for self-injury.
www.palace.net/~llama/psych/injury.html - Personal site with information and more links.
self-injury.net/
- Information, support, and more resources for self-injury.
- Depression back up
- Depression and anxiety information for youth.
www.beyondblue.org.au/ybblue/
index.aspx?link_id=68 - Teen Depression
www.focusas.com/Depression.html
- Depression and anxiety information for youth.
- Domestic Violence back up
- The Facts: Domestic Violence and Youth
www.endabuse.org/resources/facts/
Teenagers.pdf - Break the Cycle
Empowering youth to build lives free of dating and domestic violence.
www.breakthecycle.org/ - Domestice Violence
Help, treatment, intervention, and prevention.
www.helpguide.org/mental/
domestic_violence_abuse_help_
treatment_prevention.htm#help - North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence
www.nccadv.org/ - National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800 799 SAFE
- StandUp for Kids
A national organization to help homeless and street kids, with a program in the Triangle.
standupforkids.org
- Homeless Youth Programs in NC
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/content/
youthdivision/programs/locate/nc.htm - Haven House
Providing help to runaway and homeless youth in Wake County.
www.havenhousenc.org - Hour long video on homelessness and LGBTQ youth.
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?
docid=238742269686676944&q
=lgbt+youth&hl=en
- Rape Crisis Information
www.ibiblio.org/rcip/ - Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network
http://www.rainn.org/
- Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina
Educational and Advocacy Services to Reduce Unwanted Pregnancies
www.plannedparenthood.org/ppcnc - Rape Crisis Centers in NC
www.nccasa.org/NeedHelpNow.html - National Sexual Assault Hotline
1.800.656.HOPE - North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault
www.nccasa.org/
- Sex, etc.
Sexual health resources for teens, by teens.
www.sexetc.org/ - Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina
Educational and Advocacy Services to Reduce Unwanted Pregnancies
www.plannedparenthood.org/ppcnc - Youth Resource
A holistic approach to sexual health for GLBTQ youth
www.youthresource.com
Healthcare for adolescents in Wake County
www.waketeen.org
www.appcnc.org/
American Social Health Association
Phone: 800-243-7889
Helpline: 800-243-7889
- The Trevor Project
National 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention helpline aimed at gay and questioning youth.
www.thetrevorproject.org
Helpline: 866.488.7386 (866.4.U.TREVOR)
Informational video - video.google.com/videoplay?
docid=5254405293515238275&q
=lgbt+youth&hl=en - National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide
www.nopcas.com/ - If you are thinking about suicide...please read.
www.metanoia.org/suicide/ - GLBT Youth Suicide Information
www.outproud.org/article_suicide.html - Suicide Prevention Help
www.suicidepreventionhelp.com - Gay is Okay!
Site on gay teen suicide.
www.healthyplace.com/Communities/
Gender/gayisok/index.html - Kate Bornstein's Blog for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws
katebornstein.typepad.com/
kate_bornsteins_blog/ - Trailer for a documentary on LGBTQ youth suicide.
www.uglyducklings.org/trailer.html
without the hard work of dozens of high school students
leading GSAs in North Carolina.