Teen Health and Wellness

Librarian/Educator Resources

Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers offers an extensive array of resources to help librarians and educators most effectively use their database subscription.

From curriculum correlations and administration tools, to program ideas and a sample press release, to promotional materials and user’s guides, you can find all the tools you need to support your colleagues and teen users here.

Plus, our Featured Promotional Idea offers proven strategies to spread the word about your library’s Teen Health & Wellness subscription—straight from a librarian who used it with great results. Got a promotional idea of your own? Share it with us, and the next Featured Promotional Idea may be yours!

You can also offer your teen users an opportunity to share their personal stories for online publication through our Personal Story Project.

Click any link on the left of this page to explore the many resources available to librarians and educators.

And, to subscribe to the free, bimonthly Teen Health & Wellness Customer Newsletter—offering the latest news on exciting site enhancements, proven promotional and programming ideas, and advice to how to best serve teen users—simply send us your email address.

**What's New**

You can now follow Teen Health & Wellness on Twitter to get the latest health news for teens. Our username is TeenHealth.

New Search Widget and Web Buttons

Get the most out of your Teen Health & Wellness subscription--and make sure your teens know where to find trusted, credible health information 24/7. Promote Teen Health & Wellness on your library Web site with our widgets, buttons, and banners. Our new search widget allows your patrons to search the database from anywhere on your library Web site. And our Web buttons are available in both .jpg and .gif file format as well as in three sizes: 100 x 75, 150 x 75, and 200 x 100.

Learn About the History of Teen Health & Wellness

Listen as Sue Polanka, Editor, No Shelf Required, interviews Roger Rosen about Rosen Publishing's transition from print to digital, including databases and eBooks.

Teen Health & Wellness in the News

Watch Comcast Newsmakers to see Judy Macaluso, the Teen Services Coordinator from Ocean County Library (NJ), talk about Teen Health & Wellness.

Customizable Access Cards and Bookmarks

You can now customize Teen Health & Wellness bookmarks or access cards to add your library name and URL, instructions for accessing the database on your Web site, and/or username and password. Just add your custom copy to the Word file; print it as a double-sided, one-page document; and then cut out the access cards or bookmarks. No time to customize? Use our standard versions instead. Click here for school and public library versions.

Customizable Hotlines

Libraries can now add their own local resources to the new, customizable Hotlines page on Teen Health & Wellness. This innovative and unique feature lets librarians add their own content to the Hotlines page to accompany the national resources provided by the database. Click here to get started!

RSS Feeds

Popular database content is now available via RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Homepage features "In the News," "Dr. Jan's Corner," and "Did You Know?" are now offered for use in news readers and blogs. These free feeds include headlines, summaries, and links back to Teen Health & Wellness for more information. Click here, or click the RSS symbol at the bottom of the homepage, to subscribe to a feed or get more information.

All information on Teen Health & Wellness is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.

® The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 2009.