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About TeenHealthFX | Online Resource For Teenage Health & Wellness

TeenHealthFX.com is an award winning website providing an online resource for teenagers asking questions about their health, body, sexuality & more.

TeenHealthFX.com is a teenage health website project funded by Atlantic Health System’s - Morristown Medical Center. The site is maintained with input from teenagers and support from community leaders. Atlantic's Community Health Department and Goryeb Children's Hospital / Adolescent/Young Adult Center for Health are responsible for the content and operation of the site. The professional staff who answer questions from our vast teenage audience and provide oversight include clinical social workers, health educators, adolescent medicine physicians, pediatricians and pediatric subspecialist's, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, nutritionists, and many other health professionals.

The goal of TeenHealthFX.com is to provide teens with an online resource for any and all of their questions regarding health, relationships, their body and their sexuality. In addition to being an online health resource for teens, for those who live in Northern New Jersey the site is intended to help access medical, mental health, and other support services. The vision of TeenHealthFX.com is to empower adolescents to improve their health through individual responsibility.

TeenHealthFX.com has been live on the Internet since September 1999. It has been featured both nationally and locally in USA Today, New York Times, Daily Record, Star Ledger and Scholastic Choices. On television, TeenHealthFX has been highlighted on ABC News and NJN News.

A number of awards have been earned by TeenHealthFX.com including:

  • 2016 - Digital Health Awards, Merit Winner
  • 2012 - Web Health Awards and Web Health Awards/Mobile Bronze Award in the Mobile Format Division.
  • 2007 – Best Online Health Information Silver Award for the World Wide Web Health Awards sponsored by the Health Information Resource Center
  • 2005 - Best Overall Site Award for the Medicine on the Net awards sponsored by COR Healthcare Resources
  • 2003 - EHealthcare Gold Award for Best Site Design
  • 2001 - American Hospital Association NOVA Award
  • 2001 - The New Jersey Hospital Association Health Research Educational Trust Award in the "Mother & Child Category" 

 

The teenagers, community members, and professional staff involved with TeenHealthFX.com are very proud of the website and the awards that have been earned. We are always looking for ways to keep the website informative, current, and user-friendly so that we can ensure its continued use as a valuable online health resource for adolescents.

70% of youth in juvenile justice systems have at least one mental health condition 1

Young drivers are 17 times more likely to die in a crash when they have a blood alcohol concentration of .08% 2

More than half of transgender male teens reported attempting suicide in their lifetime 3

33% of adolescents in America are victim to sexual, physical, verbal, or emotional dating abuse. 4

Alcohol is the number one substance teens in America abuse 5

About half of 9th through 12th grade students reported ever having used marijuana 6

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for college-age youth and ages 12-18.  7

Young people aged 15–24 years acquire half of all new STDs 8

One in four sexually active adolescent females has an STD, such as chlamydia or human papillomavirus 9

In 2017, chlamydial infection among persons aged 15–24 years, represented 62.6% of all chlamydia cases. 10

Herpes simplex virus is the most prevalent of sexually transmitted infections 11

About 21 percent of students ages 12–18 reported being bullied at school during the school year 12

In the next 24 hours, 2,795 teenage girls will become pregnant 13

71% of all teenagers use Facebook 14

Only 1 in 5 teenagers who suffer from anxiety receive treatment. 15

90% of daily tobacco users begin by age 18 16

More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin and cocaine combined. 17

45% of high school students report being stressed all the time 18

In 2017, 5455 teenagers died from an overdose 19 

37.3 percent of 12th graders reporting vaping in the past 12 months 20

30 percent of teens with depression also develop a substance abuse problem 21

People age 12-20 drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in the United States 22

At least 80% of sexually active people will have an HPV infection at some point in their lifetime 23

In 2016, 56 percent of deaths among passenger vehicle occupants ages 16-19 were drivers 24

In pregnancies among 15–19 years old, 75% were unintended 25

Hispanic and Black Teens have the highest teen birth rate 26

Young women ages 15-19 account for 12.2 percent of abortions 27

1 in 3 young people will be in an abusive or unhealthy relationship 28

50% of young people who experience rape or physical or sexual abuse will attempt to commit suicide 29

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