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Search for a location. The Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships Initiative intends to promote respectful, nonviolent dating relationships among adolescents living in high-risk, urban communities. CDC has developed a comprehensive approach to promoting respectful, non-violent relationships based on current evidence based and evidence informed strategies. This comprehensive approach includes: school-based curricula for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students; separate parent programs for parents of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students; a communications campaign involving social media and near-peer brand ambassadors; an online training about dating violence for educators; policy assessment at the school or community level; and development and validation of school and community level indicators of teen dating violence. Additionally, schools assigned to the comprehensive condition will also receive intensive training and technical assistance to support implementation of these components. Among 4 U. We hypothesize that the comprehensive approach will be more effective than the standard approach at preventing the perpetration and victimization of teen dating violence over time and at promoting positive relationship behaviors over time.

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It includes preventive strategies for individuals, peers, families, schools, and neighborhoods. Review the text regarding protective factors. After viewing the video, how does this program provide protective factors for youth?

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Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. CDC funded four local health departments in communities across the country to implement Dating Matters as part of a five-year demonstration project.

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Dating Matters®: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships

Each contribution highlighted dimensions of relationship functioning that can be used to inform the development of prevention programs. The findings in this issue underscore the importance of considering the independent and interactive effects of risk factors occurring at each level of the social ecology, such as alcohol use Reyes et al. As national estimates of the frequency of physical dating violence victimization have remained unchanged over the past decade Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC , the translation of these findings into effective prevention programs has the potential to transform the field of partner violence prevention. Although some programs e.

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