To register for the below showcase, go to
www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence.

VDH Teen Dating Violence Prevention Curricula Showcase
The Virginia Department of Health Division of Injury and Violence
Prevention will offer a Teen Dating Violence Curricula Showcase. This
event will provide an introduction and training on five separate
curricula that address teen dating violence issues. The audience for
the training is youth service providers, teachers, prevention
specialists and those who do educational sessions with youth.
Participants will receive a CD with most of the curricula, videos and
activities available electronically. Selected participants will also
receive the evidence-based, copyrighted curriculum, Safe Dates.

Locations:
Feb 3 - Richmond
Feb 24 - Virginia Beach
March 6 - Roanoke
March 13 - Fairfax

Times:
10 AM - 4 PM with lunch on your own

Fee:
There is a $10 fee charged to participants who register but do not
attend.

Registration:
To register, click on the location that you would like to attend and
fill out your information. Print out the confirmation at the end.

Curricula
Safe Dates: An Adolescent Dating Abuse Prevention Curriculum ---
www.hazelden.org/safedates As the only research-based curriculum of its
kind, Safe Dates helps young people recognize the difference between
healthy, caring, and supportive relationships, and controlling,
manipulative, and abusive dating relationships. The nine session Safe
Dates curriculum, which can be delivered in as few as four sessions,
includes cost-saving reproducible student handouts.

Choose Respect --- www.chooserespect.org Choose Respect is designed to
encourage positive action on the part of adolescents to form healthy,
respectful relationships. The goals of Choose Respect are to providing
effective messages for adolescents, parents, caregivers and teachers
that encourage them to choose to treat themselves and others with
respect, creating opportunities for adolescents and parents to learn
about positive relationship behaviors, and to increase adolescents'
ability to recognize and prevent unhealthy, violent relationships.

Building Healthy Relationships across Virginia: A Facilitator's Guide
for Teen Dating Violence Prevention ---
www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence/Curricula.asp
This Facilitator's Guide is a resource for anyone doing dating violence
prevention work with teens. It is not a curriculum, but a compilation
of activities compete with step-by-step nots for facilitators.

Love is Not Abuse --- www.loveisnotabuse.com The goals of Love Is Not
Abuse are to increase students' understanding of teenage dating
violence/abuse, help students challenge misconceptions or beliefs that
"support" dating violence, and increase help-seeking behavior among
students involved in abusive relationships.

Youth Service Statutory Rape Awareness
The sexual coercion curriculum is for youth service providers. The goal
is to help professionals gain an understanding of victims and
perpetrators of sexual coercion and exploitation of minor teens by
adults (statutory rape), learn grooming techniques used by perpetrators
and discuss ways to work with youth who are being sexually coerced.

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Rebecca K. Odor, MSW
Director of Sexual & Domestic Violence Prevention
Division of Injury and Violence Prevention
Virginia Department of Health
109 Governor St. #815G
Richmond VA 23219
of: 804-864-7740
fax: 804-864-7748
email: Becky.Odor@...
web: www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence