Unequal Partners: Helping Teens Avoid, Change, or End Unhealthy
Relationships

Monday, March 17, 2008 in Virginia Beach

Wednesday, March 19 in Charlottesville

Please visit here to register

http://www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence/index.asp


Morning beverage, lunch, and afternoon snack provided.

EVENT AGENDA
This engaging workshop, targets professionals who work with young people
ages 10-17 in school and community settings. Unequal Partners aims to
increase professionals' understanding of the dynamics, complexities and
risks of adult-teen relationships and improve their effectiveness in helping
adolescents develop healthy relationships and avoid, change or leave
unhealthy ones.

Drawing on the Third Edition of the Unequal Partners curriculum, this
workshop utilizes interactive methods to encourage participants to reflect
upon their own experiences and opinions. Participants will learn strategies
for educating and working with groups of adolescents to define healthy
relationships, understand guidelines for consent, recognize the warning
signals of unhealthy relationships and communicate about relationship
issues.

Participants will be able to:

. Describe the importance of educational interventions in helping patients,
clients and students make healthy decisions about sexual relationships,
especially adult-teen relationships.

. Describe their attitudes, feelings, and perspectives regarding adult-teen
sexual relationships.

. Name at least two guidelines for determining sexual consent.

. Know current state laws about adolescent sexual relationships, including
adult-teen relationships.

. Describe at least two educational strategies for educating groups of young
people about healthy relationships.

Robert L. Franklin, MS
Male Outreach Coordinator
Division of Injury and Violence Prevention
Virginia Department of Health
109 Governor Street, 8th Floor
Richmond VA 23219
Phone: (804) 864-7739
Fax: (804) 864-7748

email: Robert.Franklin@...

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