Prevention Work
Imagine a world where
…boys and girls know that they are loved and how to
love,
…gender doesn’t define how we treat each other, and
…everyone experiences healthy, loving, and
safe relationships.
We all have a role to play in creating this world and ending domestic violence.
In a recent
study most teens said they know what a healthy relationship is, but they don’t
expect to be in one. Wow.
How can we change that?
YOUTH
Join our Teen Leadership Council (TLC). Our TLC will help inform our work and connect teens around Washington State. Join and become an activist working for love and equality in your community.
Check this out:
- Break the Cycle: Keep an eye out for their cool speak.act.change youth advocacy kit
- See It and Stop It: Check out their ideas for how to get involved.
PARENTS
Need help talking with your kids about relationships? Get a sample script at Relationship Redux.
Check this out:
- Parent’s Guide to Teen Dating Violence: 10 Questions to Start the Conversation from Love is Not Abuse
- Booklet for parents
- Concerned about the media’s impact on your kid? Go to the Media Literacy Project. Go deeper and check out this introduction paper to media literacy.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
Integrate DV prevention into your work. Who else in your community cares about this issue? Call them up, get together and create the change you want to see! For ideas on what to do check out INSTIGATE!
Check this out:
- Close to Home
- Contact us if you want to tell us about how you are organizing.
EDUCATORS
Learn more about dating violence and teen relationships. Go through In Their Shoes: Teens and Dating Violence. Contact a DV program in your community to find out how.
Check this out:
- Tools for Change
- The Fourth R curricula: The Fourth R has a variety of curricula available for teachers across many disciplines…
- Resources for Healthy Teen Relationship Skills from WCSAP
DV ADVOCATES
Join the conversation. Sign up for our list of advocates interested in prevention. Have you done In Their Shoes yet? Go through In Their Shoes: Teens and Dating Violence
Check this out:
- Scenarios USA
- Look at the great work our sister Coalition is doing at Be the Solution and http://www.wcsap.org/preventing-sexual-violence
- Prevention Connection