Featured Resource
Love Is Respect.org
Love Is Respect is the national resource to disrupt and prevent unhealthy relationships and intimate partner violence by empowering young people through inclusive and equitable education, support, and resources. A project of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, Love Is Respect offers 24/7 information, support, and advocacy to young people between the ages of 13 and 26 who have questions or concerns about their romantic relationships.
Website provides comprehensive education through resources including quizzes, interactive pages, and testimonials, as well as training, toolkits, and curriculum for educators, peers, and parents to promote healthy relationships and prevent future abuse.
Dating Violence: Intimate partner violence that can include physical violence, sexual violence, psychological aggression and/or stalking.
Physical Violence: One partner hurts or tries to hurt the other partner through physical force (hitting, kicking, etc.)
Sexual Violence: One partner forces or tries to force a partner to take part in a sex act and or sexual touching when the partner does not consent or is unable to consent or refuse. It also includes non-physical sexual behaviors like posting or sharing sexual pictures of a partner without their consent or sexting someone without their consent.
Psychological Aggression: The use of verbal and non-verbal communication with the intent to harm a partner mentally or emotionally and exert control over a partner.
Stalking: A pattern of repeated, unwanted attention and contact by a current or former partner that causes fear or safety concern for an individual victim or someone close to the victim.
Control: One dating partner makes all the decisions and tells the other what to do, what to wear, or who to spend time with. He or she is unreasonably jealous, and/or tries to isolate the other partner from his or her friends and family.
Mutual Respect: Respect means that each person values who the other is and understands the other person’s boundaries.
Self-Confidence: When dating partners have confidence in themselves, it can help their relationships with each other.
LINKS
Love is Learned
Take an education series from One Love to teach youth how love is learned.
Teach Consent
Teach Consent website includes videos and parent guide teens how to ask, listen and respect.
Power & Control Wheel
Teen Power & Control Wheel adopted from the Domestic Abuse Intervention in Duluth, Minnesota
ACTIVITIES
Teach The Wheels
Use the Power & Control Wheel and contrasting Equality Wheel to teach youth about relationship dynamics.
Watch One Love Videos
Watch One Love videos with youth to teach the 10 signs of an unhealthy relationship.
Host a Workshop
Host a workshop at your school or community center to teach youth about healthy relationships and spotting the warning signs of dating abuse.
READING & RESEARCH
Families for Safe Dates Manual
FAMILIES FOR SAFE DATES®A Program for Parents and Other Caregivers to Help Teens Date Safely
ORGANIZATIONS
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)'s mission is to lead, mobilize and raise our voices to support efforts that demand a change of conditions that lead to domestic violence such as patriarchy, privilege, racism, sexism, and classism.