S.H.E. Circle
Based on the principle of Ujima – “collective work and responsibility to build and maintain our community together”– S.H.E. Circle harnesses the power of this sisterhood or sistahood to empower, energize, and engage African women in a personal journey to healthy living and disease prevention.
Tags: women, lesbian, bisexual, health, african american, get involved, social
KBHC Hopeline
Our focus in on suicide prevention, awareness and education. We provide help and hope through crisis hotlines, online crisis chat, a music outreach tour and college campus awareness events.
Tags: suicide prevention, crisis line, education, campus, outreach
Gender.Org
Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) is a national organization focused on the needs, issues and concerns of gender variant people in human society. We seek to educate and advocate, not only for ourselves and others like us, but for all human beings who suffer from gender-based oppression in all of its many forms.
Tags: gender, education, advocacy, national
Against Equality
Against Equality is an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. As queer thinkers, writers and artists, we are committed to dislodging the centrality of equality rhetoric and challenging the demand for inclusion in the institution of marriage, the US military, and the prison industrial complex via hate crimes legislation.
We want to reinvigorate the queer political imagination with fantastic possibility!
DeafHope
Our mission is to end domestic and sexual violence through empowerment, education and services in the deaf community and among deaf allies.
Tags: deaf, people with disabilities, LGBT, queer, domestic violence, sexual violence, resources, advocacy, education, services
Text2quit is a program to help people quit smoking and stay quit. It includes text messages, emails, and access to a personal web portal. Once you sign up, the text messages can be used on their own. Or you can use all three components for the most support.
Tags: smoking, health, tobacco
My Last Dip
My Last Dip is a Web-based research project website funded by a grant from the National Cancer Institute to evaluate ways to help people quit using smokeless tobacco.
Tags: tobacco, health, smokeless, dip, chew
Espanol.Smokefree.gov tiene como objetivo ayudar a las personas que quieren dejar el cigarrillo. Cada persona necesita de diferentes recursos cuando intentan dejar el cigarrillo. La información y la asistencia profesional disponibles en este sitio de Internet pueden servirle para alcanzar sus metas a corto y largo plazo hasta que logre dejar el cigarrillo definitivamente.
Tags: fumar, tabaco, salud, español, smoking, tobacco, health, spanish
When you were younger, the adults in your life made most of your decisions for you. But that’s changed. You make most of your decisions now. You’re in control of the direction your life takes. So, where is your life going? What do you want to be? What do you value? These are huge questions, with no easy answers. Sections of this website can help you sort things out.
This site is designed and run by people at the National Cancer Institute. We want you to take control of your health. And that’s why we developed this site. We’re NOT going to tell you what to do. This site is designed to help you understand the decisions you make—especially the decision to quit smoking—and how those decisions fit into your life.
Tags: smoking, teens, health, tobacco
Women.Smokefree.gov is intended to help you or someone you care about quit smoking and is designed to try to provide information about topics that are often important to women. Different women need different resources as they try to quit. The information and professional assistance available on this Web site can help to support both your immediate and long-term needs as you become, and remain, a nonsmoker.
Tags: smoking, health, tobacco, women