You can choose from a variety of promotional tools to help you connect your colleagues and teen users to Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers. Material for download includes letters, flyers, posters, and media reviews.

Simply click a file below to download it.

• *NEW*  Customize Teen Health & Wellness bookmarks or access cards.  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.

• *NEW*  Use Teen Health & Wellness buttons and banners to promote the database on your library Web site or MySpace page.
• Announce your library's new acquisition of Teen Health & Wellness with a customizable press release.
• “Dear Colleague” Announcement Letter (MS Word or text). Use this letter template to announce your subscription to library colleagues, administrators, teachers, guidance counselors, and parents.
• Poster in Color or Black and White (.pdf)
• Informational Flyer (.pdf). You can also download a Canadian version.
• Media Review Highlights (.pdf)

Featured Promotional Ideas

Use our Featured Promotional Ideas to spread the word about your library’s Teen Health & Wellness subscription—straight from a librarian who used it with great results.

Public Library
Pamunkey Regional Library is one of the latest libraries to take advantage of the valuable Teen Health & Wellness RSS Feed feature. On their Web site's homepage, the Hanover, VA, library is using RSS, otherwise known as Really Simple Syndication, to share with their customers the latest content from the Teen Health & Wellness database. Teen Health & Wellness RSS feeds are based on content published on the database and are updated continually. Three RSS feeds--In the News, Dr. Jan's Corner, and Did You Know?--are currently available for subscribers to access.

In the News is a great way to share up-to-date information on the latest health and wellness news and how it impact's teens' lives, while Dr. Jan's Corner offers the latest Q&A as real teens submit questions to our resident teen and family therapist. Did You Know? provides interesting, surprising and just plain weird facts from the world of health and wellness.

To subscribe to any of the RSS feeds offered by Teen Health  Wellness, simply visit the Web site, click on the RSS Feeds link at the bottom of the home page and select the feeds you would like to subscribe to.

School Library
Through our unique Personal Story Project, twelve students at The Shelton School (Dallas, TX) have published essays on Teen Health & Wellness. Working together, Library Coordinator Kathy Fester and English Teacher Melissa Harrison ran a program in which students submitted essays on topics ranging from divorce to adoption to dating abuse. In addition to becoming published authors on the site, teen writers also received certificates of achievement and gift cards in recognition of their achievements.

"I am definitely planning to do this submission process to [Teen Health & Wellness] every semester from now on. It's a perfect exercise for my college writing students! And they LOVE saying they are published writers," says Harrison.

To find out more about the Personal Story Project, click the link to it on the left side of Librarian/Educator Resources page.

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