Choose Respect is a national initiative sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that encourages adolescents to adopt healthy behaviors to prevent dating abuse. Choose Respect targets 11- to 14-year-olds with positive messages to help them develop skills to maintain respectful relationships throughout their lives. The website offers a variety of resources and interactive features for teens, parents, and professionals.
As the only research-based curriculum of its kind, Safe Dates helps young people recognize the difference between healthy, caring, and supportive relationships, and controlling, manipulative, and abusive dating relationships. Highly engaging and interactive, Safe Dates has been shown to be effective with both boys and girls and it addresses perpetrators of violence as well as victims. It works as both a prevention and intervention tool, with case studies and activities that are relevant for teens that have not started dating as well as those who have been "going out" for a long time. The nine-Session Safe Dates curriculum, which can be delivered in as few as four sessions, includes cost-saving reproducible student handouts. Highlights of the curriculum include a dating bingo game to help young people identify desirable traits in dating partners and a play on dating abuse that was written by high school students.
Unequal Partners helps teachers, counselors, nurses, and other professionals educate young people to make healthy decisions about relationships, especially those involving the power imbalances that can occur when there are significant age differences. This guide includes 30 interactive lessons to help young people. Ages ten to seventeen. Learn more at The Center for Family Life Education, Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey, Inc.
Curriculum developed by the Virginia Teen Dating Violence Prevention Taskforce (VTDVPT) to promote healthy relationships/healthy sexuality and reduce teen dating violence by developing a statewide network of trained Community Based Youth Serving Agency (CBYSA) professionals who will implement education on these issues for 11-15 year-olds within their programs. Four Session Adult Facilitator Training Curriculum, Five-Hour Community-Based Youth-Serving Agency Training Curriculum with customizable PowerPoint Presentation, & Four Session Youth Curriculum. This program is designed to fit with Unit Two of the Virginia Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence (VSDVAA) "Building Healthy Relationships across Virginia", which is described and linked to below.
Introduction, Unit 1: Positive Personal Development, Unit 2: Addressing Teen Dating Violence, Unit 3: Addressing Sexual Harassment with Teens, Unit 4: Addressing Sexual Violence with Teens, Unit 5: Exploring Gender Sexuality and Powe, & Unit 6: Promoting Healthy Relationships Virginia Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Action Alliance (VSDVAA)
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