Access Mental Health for Youth – Families
Videos and hand-outs offering easy-to-understand background information about a mental health condition or general wellness, and guidance to help families better manage their child’s unique situation.
Biography Reference Bank
Contains biographical full-text articles, page images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals—providing the most current coverage of an individual’s life and work
Biography Reference Center
Containing many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines, this database offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies, as well as thousands of unique narrative biographies.
Codecademy
A great place to learn the fundamental of programming language and syntax. Includes self-paced tutorials for popular coding languages such as Java, Ruby, Python, and more!
Provides guidance in every step of the college admissions process, including test prep, application help admissions interview resources, a writing lab, and much more!
Connecticut DMV
Get quick access to CT DMV forms, practice tests, and rules & regulations. Many forms can be filled out online.
CT Department of Labor – Tips for Job Seekers
Busy job hunters can find information here about writing resumes, drafting cover letters and preparing for job interviews and career fairs.
Do Something
Join teens around the world who are getting involved to help solve world problems and issues that affect their lives. Search projects or create one of your own!
DVM Permit Test
These practice tests are good for the permit test, driver’s license test and the senior citizens’ refresher test.
Explora for High School
An interface designed specifically for students in middle school and high school with an emphasis on topical browsing for age-appropriate EBSCOhost articles.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Covers a wide variety of subjects, including information on specific diseases as well as overall health topics. Subjects include fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women’s health, children’s health and more.
History Reference Center
Features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books.
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Indeed
A job search engine with powerful search tools to help jobseekers find exactly the kinds of jobs they are looking for.
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Intelligent.com is an online magazine centered around a lifelong commitment to education, continuous improvement, enabling smarter choices to produce the greatest advantage, utility, and satisfaction.
Khan Academy
Offers practice exercises and instructional videos for personalized learning. Includes test prep, academic subject help, computer programming, college and career help, and more.
Learning Express Workforce Solutions
Provides the most comprehensive collection of job search and career exploration tools anywhere — all in one place and always available online. It includes resume and letter builders with targeted samples and tips, millions of job and internship postings, interviewing advice and a personal dashboard to track users’ work.
Contains biographical essays of the 2,500 most studied authors. More than 8,500 writers of fiction, poetry, drama, and essays are featured. More than 400 comprehensive essays on specific literary genres, themes and settings round out the collection.
Provides tutorials on using the library’s digital collection and research databases as well as computer skill tutorials. Check out the tutorials available through Niche Academy below and linked throughout our website!
Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) – Bureau of Labor Statistics
The OOH can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.
Open Culture
Brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.
Pathways Program
The Pathways Program offers federal internship and employment opportunities for current students, recent graduates and those with an advanced degree. There are three different paths available:
ResearchIT CT OneSearch
Search more than a dozen online databases from a single search box.
Science Reference Center
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text, science-oriented content. Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other sources.
Student Voting Guide
Provides a comprehensive voter’s guide replete with everything you need to know about voting in an election. The state-by-state directory explores voter eligibility criteria, residency requirements, registration deadlines, and other voting guidelines in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
SUPE stands for Substance Use Prevention Education, whose goal is to educate people through online technology about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
Combining robust courses, supplemental vocabulary, extensive grammar resources, and mobile apps, Transparent Language Online is the most complete language-learning system. With over 100 languages to choose from, including English for speakers of over 26 languages, there is something for every learner.
USA.gov
The official web portal of the United States federal government, s designed to improve the public’s interaction with the U.S. government by quickly directing website visitors to the services or information they are seeking. Popular topic include Jobs & Unemploment, Laws and Legal Issues , Small Business, Money and Consumer Issues, and Education.
Volunteer Match
One of the largest network in the nonprofit world, connecting volunteers and nonprofit organizations to achieve remarkable outcomes.
Local Resources for Teens
Web Site: 211 of Connecticut
Cove Center for Grieving Children
Cheshire, CT 06410
Web Site: The Cove Center for Grieving Children