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  • Liz Duck-Chong

We hope every time you open up to someone about your truth they respond with love and kindness. But we also want to make sure you're prepared in case they don't, and give you some practical strategies and tools to look after yourself if that’s what happens. With that in mind, here's a new, totally non-exhaustive, step by step guide to coming out.

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  • Sam Wall

Hoo boy. You’ve hit on a lot of big questions here. Some are the kind that can (and sometimes do) lead to knock-down, drag-out fights in the queer community. I’m going to do my best to tread lightly. What’s coming across in your question is that your evaluation of your friends’ identity is more...

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  • Heather Corinna

A miscarriage is a pregnancy that naturally ends before twenty weeks of pregnancy, all by itself. Here's what it's all about and how it can be as an experience.

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  • Heather Corinna

If you don’t know about what it’s like to be pregnant at any or every stage and you just want half a clue, this is your article.

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  • Sam Wall

We remain deeply saddened, angry, scared and horrified about the horrible events that unfolded last Saturday night on Latin night at Pulse, an LGBTQ club in Orlando which took 49 lives, injured over 50 others and have left millions of us hurting. So do many young people. Here are some ways you can support the LGBTQ young people in your family who are or may be struggling right now.

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When someone comes into our direct services with a pregnancy scare, there are some things that we will and won't do. We absolutely will help users who could clearly be or may soon become pregnant: with things like how to access emergency contraception, abortion, adoption or prenatal care, how to...

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Anxiety, stress or panic are things everyone experiences sometimes, things most people can manage and cope with most of the time. But if any or all of those things: feels unmanageable for you OR keeps happening about things that aren't based in reality OR becomes constant or chronic, rather than...

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  • Sam Wall

There are so many things that make me glad in your question. Glad that L has at least one person that he feels safe sharing that part of himself with. Glad you reacted positively and confirmed his trust in you. But oh how I am not glad that he's still in a situation where he doesn't feel comfortable...

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  • Heather Corinna
  • Sam Wall

If you take nothing else away from Scarleteen Confidential, we feel these five things are the real guiding principles when it comes to parenting well with sex and sexuality.

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  • Heather Corinna
  • Sam Wall

In this series we pass on our insight including what we observe and learn from working with young people to parents, guardians and other supportive adults.