Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships(Start Strong) is the largest initiative ever funded to target 11- to- 14-year-olds and rally entire communities to promote healthy relationships as the way to prevent teen dating violence and abuse.

We are bringing together a wide variety of partners in 11 communities across the country to tackle this issue and to empower young people to support safe and healthy relationships and ensure violence and abuse are never tolerated.

Our Start Strong model uses innovative strategies to:

• Educate and engage youth in schools and out of school settings
• Educate and engage teen influencers such as parents/caregivers, teachers and other mentors
• Change policy and environmental factors
• Implement effective communications/social marketing strategies

Start Strong is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in collaboration with the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF). Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Blue Shield of California Foundation* are investing $18 million in 11 Start Strong communities across the country to identify and evaluate best practices in prevention to stop dating violence and abuse before it starts. › more

1. What is Start Strong? › more
2. Who is responsible for this initiative? › more

Family Violence Prevention Fund
Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
Phone: 415-252-8900
Email: info@startstrongteens.org
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