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Start Strong Teens Launch National Flash Mob Movement for February, National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month
 February 1, 2012

Start Strong teens across the country are gearing up for February, their biggest month of the year: National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. › more

 

 

Start Strong Los Angeles and Peace Over Violence Empower their Community to Take a Stand Against Teen Dating Violence
 February 1, 2012

On February 16-17th Start Strong Los Angeles’ Peace Over Violence will host their 4th Annual Violence Free Teens Conference, welcoming youth and to explore new ways that families can work together to cultivate healthy and safe relationships and communities. The theme of this year’s conference is, “Cultivating Connections: Empowering Youth and Adult Allies to End Relationship Violence.” The two-day event will focus on building powerful youth-adult partnerships to end teen dating and sexual violence. › more

 

 

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Mentoring Abused Students
 January 23, 2012 | Teaching Tolerance

Teens opening the eyes of younger teens to dating abuse—through popular media they all relate to, using a shared colloquial tongue that’s full of drama but, thankfully, free of preaching:That’s the novel idea behind abuse-prevention materials for middle schoolers recently dreamed up by trained high school “peer leaders” in 11 U.S. cities.Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships, a program funded mostly by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, aims to prevent date violence and promote healthy relationships among 11- to 14-year-olds. › more

 

 

Start the Conversation: Ending Teen Dating Violence
 November 29, 2011 | Huffington Post

Let's imagine for a moment that a student walks into their first day of algebra class, takes a seat and is immediately presented with the final exam. It's safe to assume the student would probably fail the test. After all, how can you expect someone to succeed in a subject they've never been taught? Yet when it comes to dating relationships, we often expect young people to have all the answers without ever studying the subject. If we want to end teen dating violence, we need to have more involved conversations with our young people around the topic of dating relationships. › more

 

 

Press Releases

Government Leaders, Senior Policy Makers, Domestic Violence Experts Discuss Most Effective Ways to Stop Dating Violence Among Middle School Youth at Capitol Hill Event
 February 10, 2011 | Family Violence Prevention Fund

Today, the Family Violence Prevention Fund and Jewish Women International join Honorary Hosts Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia), Congresswomen Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) and Congressman Dave Reichert (R-Washington), leaders from the Department of Education, Centers for Disease Control, and the Office on Violence Against Women of the Department of Justice at a briefing on Capitol Hill to discuss “Why Middle School Matters,” promising initiatives that communities, schools, and parents can use to address teen dating violence and the federal policy implications of the work from the field. The briefing will highlight how the middle school years offer key moments for education and prevention of teen dating violence when youth are just beginning to date or establish romantic relationships. › more

 

 

Boston Public Health Releases Top 10 Lists of Healthy and Unhealthy Relationship Songs
 December 21, 2010 | Boston Public Health Commission

New tool measures ingredients in music videos BOSTON – A teen violence prevention program at the Boston Public Health Commission has released its second annual Top 10 lists of healthy and unhealthy relationship songs. Train’s song “If It’s Love” topped the list of healthy relationship songs, while music veteran Usher had the top two songs on the 2010 unhealthy list - “Lil Freak” and “Hot Tottie.” One of this year’s breakout stars – Katy Perry – was also a healthy choice for music fans; her song “Teenage Dream” followed Train as the second healthiest song of 2010.Using the Sound Relationships Nutritional Label it started a year ago, Start Strong peer leaders analyzed songs from Billboard’s "Hot 100" chart, a record of the top 100 songs purchased, played on the radio, and streamed online across all music genres. Monica’s “Everything to Me” took the third spot on the healthy relationship songs list while Bruno Mars had two healthy songs on the list. Although the lyrics on Perry’s “Teenage Dream” include themes about sex, it was in the context of a healthy relationship, said participants in Start Strong, a program of the Commission’s Division of Violence Prevention. › more

 

 

 

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