Choose Respect: tools for preventing teen dating violence

The Virginia Department of Health Division of Injury and Violence
Prevention will offer a training addressing teen dating violence. This
event will provide an introduction and training on several 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. The materials are
designed for youth in 6th to 12th grade.

Participants will receive a CD with most of the curricula, videos and
activities available electronically

Date
Monday August 27

Time
10 AM - 4 PM with lunch on your own

Location
Smyth-Bland Regional Library
118 S Sheffey Street
Marion, VA, 24354

Register here

http://bit.ly/ChooseRespect


Choose Respect Playbook developed by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). The "Playbook" uses a coordinated, community wide
approach, enabling users to implement activities on all levels of the
social ecological model (i.e. individual, family, community) and
establish a supportive environment where youth are encouraged to develop
healthy relationship skills. The Playbook's goals are to have:

1) teens recognize, value, acquire the skills for, and intend to have
healthy relationships;
2) teens establish healthy dating relationship behaviors;
3) friends, family and caring adults provide social support for healthy
relationships among youth;
4) groups in the community promote healthy relationships among youth;
5) resources mobilized to promote a culture of respect in communities,
and
6) changes occur in policies, products, services, and media messages to
support dating abuse prevention.

Choose Respect Video Discussion Guide--- 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.

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@...

web: http://www.menendingviolence.com
web: http://www.varapelaws.org
web: http://www.paramihija.com
web: http://www.vahealth.org/Injury/sexualviolence/