The Jane Fonda Center at Emory University, a member of the Start Strong Learning Community, is the lead organization for Start Strong Atlanta working with the Atlanta Public School District and Grady Health System Teen Services Program as primary partners. As part of this four-year initiative, Start Strong Atlanta will be implementing the Start Strong model by:

• Implementing Safe Dates, a healthy relationships curriculum, into the Atlanta Public School District's 15 middle schools. 
• Collaborating with the Metropolitan Atlanta Violence Prevention Partnership (over 160 individuals and agencies) and six other committed partners to date, build social capital in the Atlanta community to help youth develop healthy teen relationships through social networking strategies and educational capacity building.
• Partnering with The Rock of Escape Youth Development Organization on a community engagement project in the Villages of Carver, an urban –mixed community with one of the highest rates of intimate partner violence and over all violence in the city of Atlanta.
• Working with a core group of youth leaders, create and maintain “KeepItStrongATL”, a youth –focused website giving young people a voice and a place they can blog, post comments, and engage in discussions on building healthy relationships and preventing teen dating violence.
• Having support from philanthropist and actor, Jane Fonda, who speaks to the public health issue of teen dating violence and the importance of the work of Start Strong

BY THE NUMBER

• A 2009 Georgia report indicates that 1 out of every 6 Georgia high school students was hit, slapped or physically hurt on purpose by their boyfriend or girlfriend
• Start Strong Atlanta aims to reach up to 10,000 youth in the Atlanta area

OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Atlanta Public School District
Grady Health System / Teen Services Program
Fulton Family Care Network
Metropolitan Atlanta Violence Prevention Partnership
Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice
The Rock of Escape's City Gates: Guarding a Generation Community Engagement Promotion
The Ben Marion Institute for Social Justice

MEET THE TEAM

Kyle Cole: Director of Programs
Jackie Davis: Manager, Research Projects
Sarah Hill: Communications Coordinator
Melissa Kottke: Director
Carmen Simmons: Start Strong Youth Leader, Age 17
Timothy Bennett: Start Strong Youth Leader, Age 17

CONNECT

Address: 1256 Briarcliff Road Atlanta, GA 30306
Email: mapomah@emory.edu
Website: www.keepitstrongatl.org
P: 404-712-8730

COMMUNITY UPDATES

• Start Strong Atlanta Teens Take the Lead in Promoting Healthy Relationships
• Start Strong Turns Three!
• 'Keep It' Teen: Community Partnership Formed During Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
• Start Strong Atlanta Launches New PSA Contest
• Start Strong Atlanta Launches New Web Site
• Start Strong Atlanta Launch

IN THE NEWS

• Talking to teens about dating doesn't have to be awkward
• Start Strong Atlanta promoting healthy teen relationships
• Virtual Healthy Break-Up Summit Brings Teens Together from Across the Nation to Promote Safe Dating Relationships
• Start Strong Shares Ideas to Stop Dating Violence Before it Starts
• Initiative Tackles Teen Dating Violence
• Conference on stopping teen dating violence at Emory
• Fighting Domestic Violence Among Teens
• Start Strong Atlanta promoting healthy teen relationships
• Doctor Higgins
• Tackling teen dating violence

PHOTOS:

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