However, we understand that it can be tricky to know how to identify and talk
about teen dating violence with your teenager, so we developed a short guide to help you through.
Our goal is to increase
awareness about teen dating violence as well as provide educational information to help teens, tweens, and young adults identify and avoid abusive relationships.
School - Based Interventions to Reduce Dating and Sexual Violence include a range of universal - level programs aimed at increasing students»
knowledge about teen dating violence; changing attitudes or beliefs supportive of teen dating violence; improving conflict - management skills; and encouraging peer support and bystander involvement.
This year, as we raise
awareness about teen dating violence and offer scientific approaches to prevention, we must continue to invest in evidence - based and evaluated programs with rigorous research that inform truly effective public policies.
You can
talk about teen dating violence with your community leaders and local organizations, use social media to raise awareness and start discussions, practice self - love and create positive affirmations, or request dating abuse prevention training for your school or office.
«As we raise awareness
about teen dating violence and offer scientific approaches to prevention,» Stein recently noted, «we must continue to invest in evidence - based and evaluated programs with rigorous research that inform truly effective public policies.»