Teen+Dating+Violence+Prevention

//Teen Dating Violence Prevention //
==//Everyone deserves to be in safe and healthy relationship.One in 10 high school students has experienced physical violence from a dating partner in the past year. Teen dating should be safe whether its physical, emotional, and mental. Developing, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive approah to promote respect, nonviolent dating relationships and decrease emotional, physical, and sexual dating violence among young in high-risk urban communties. //==

==//A healthy relationship approach to violence prevention also allows for the consellaton of risk factors that are associated with dating violence to be included. For example, a healthy relationship is not only free from violence, but also from substance abuse and sexual risk taking. //==

//Violence: Teen Power & Control //
==//A relationship is not heathy if there's threats, imtimidation, using social status, anger/emotional abuse, peer pressure, insolation/exclusion, and sexual coerion. //==



==//Teen Relationship Equality//== ==//A relationship is healthy if there is respect, shared responsibility, communication, negotiation and fairness, non-threatening behavior, trust and support, independece and autonomy, and honesty & accountability.//==



//Three significantgaps exist in teen dating violence prevention://

 * //Little is known what works to prevent dating violence among youth in urban communities with high crime and economic disadvantage.//
 * //Local public health agencies often are not the primary agents for dating violence prevention programming in communties.//
 * //A lack of local data on teen dating violence limits communties' ability to monitor and track the problem.//

[|www.loveisrespect.org] [|www.vetoviolence.org] [|www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention] [|www.tcfv.org]

Created by Sabrina Griffin