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Title: Teen Dating Violence


1
Teen Dating Violence Prevention
  • Intimate Partner Violence Webinar
  • October 15, 2009
  • National Press Foundation
  • Kristin Schubert, MPH, Vulnerable Populations
    Portfolio
  • Start Strong Building Healthy Teen Relationships

2
RWJF Intimate Partner Violence
  • Helping Americans to lead healthier lives and get
    the care they need
  • Tackle serious health issues, like tobacco use
    and obesity, by going to where health starts and
    finding solutions outside of the traditional
    healthcare system.
  • IPV is significant public health problem in this
    country
  • Globally, 1 in 4 women experience IPV in their
    lifetime (World Health Organization, 2008)
  • In the U.S, young women ages 16-24 experience a
    higher rate of IPV than any other age group.
    (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice
    Statistics, Special Report Intimate Partner
    Violence and Age of Victim, 1993-99)

3
Effects of IPV
  • IPV has long-lasting effects on people, families
    and communities
  • Strongest predictor of IPV is witnessing it
    within ones family
  • Among adolescents, IPV is associated with
    increased risk for substance abuse, unhealthy
    weight control behaviors, sexual risk behaviors,
    pregnancy and suicide. (Molidor, Tolman Kober,
    2000 National Center for Injury Prevention and
    Control, 2001)
  • High costs to society

4
IPV starts early!
  • Physical Dating Violence Norms and Behavior Among
    Six-Graders (Simon, Miller, Gorman-Smith, Orpinas
    Sullivan, 2009)
  • Half of all 6th graders say they are dating
    (59.9 males and 45.2 females)
  • 42.1 of these 6th graders report being victims
    of dating physical violence
  • 28.6 reported perpetration of dating violence
    (scratch, slap, slam/held them up against the
    wall, kicked, pushed/shoved, threw something at
    them that could hurt them, punched/kit him them
    with something that could hurt)
  • Students who reported dating said that it is
    acceptable for a girl to hit her boyfriend (59)
    or for a boy to hit his girlfriend (31.3)
    compared to students who had not dated (44.8 and
    22.2, respectively)
  • Significantly high acceptance for relationship
    violence among early adolescents

5
Focus on Prevention
  • We need to start the conversation about primary
    prevention and healthy relationships.
  • How can we break down the acceptance of violence
    and abuse in relationships?
  • How can we foster environments that reinforce
    positive attitudes and behaviors toward
    relationships to prevent teen dating abuse before
    it starts?
  • What is a healthy relationship? Were on a
    mission to define it.
  • We are beginning a new national conversation
    about healthy relationships, what they look and
    feel like, how to have them, build them and keep
    them so that we can ensure violence and abuse are
    never tolerated.

6
Investing in Prevention
  • Our goal
  • To discover new public-health models that can
    integrate cutting edge practices to not only
    reduce IPV, but change attitudes and behaviors to
    prevent relationship violence and abuse before it
    starts.
  • Take the issue out of private sphere into the
    community
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Blue Shield of
    California Foundation are investing 18 million
    in 11 communities across the country to identify
    and evaluate the most promising ways to stop
    dating violence and abuse before it starts.
  • Start Strong Building Healthy Teen Relationships
  • The largest initiative ever funded to target
    11-14 year olds and engage entire communities to
    promote healthy relationships as the way to
    prevent teen dating violence and abuse.

7
Start Strong in Action
  • Core Strategies
  • Engage and educate young people in and out of
    schools
  • Engage and educate influencers, such as older
    teens, parents, mentors, etc.
  • Implement policies that support healthy
    relationships
  • Use social marketing and communications
    strategies to promote social norm change
  • How we work
  • 11 diverse communities
  • Strong teen leadership
  • Evaluating our efforts
  • www.startstrongteens.org

8
Start Strong Model Communities
  • Across the Country in 10 States
  • Atlanta - Emory University Medical School Jane
    Fonda Center
  • Austin Safe Place
  • Boise Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and
    Domestic Violence
  • Boston Boston Public Health Commission
  • Bridgeport RYASAP
  • Indianapolis Clarian Health
  • Los Angeles Peace Over Violence (Funded by
    Blue Shield of California Foundation)
  • Oakland Family Violence Law Center
  • Providence Sojourner House
  • New York Bronx-Lebanon Hospital
  • Wichita Catholic Charities, Inc.

9
A special opportunity
  • Thursday, October 22nd , National Start Strong
    Action Day
  • Start Strong teens around the country will be out
    in the streets of their communities to educate
    people about healthy relationships and teen
    dating violence and abuse
  • Innovative New Approaches to Prevention
  • Providence Educational Gaming program
    multi-user virtual environment on relationships
    that teaches 11-14 year olds skills in conflict
    resolution and communication, and promotes
    healthy behaviors such as respect and trust.
  • Bronx Manga Comic Books young people are
    learning to create a comic book, developing the
    dialogue and illustrations with the storyline
    around relationships.
  • Atlanta A partnership with the HipHop
    Curriculum Project that engages young people
    through music and popular culture to look
    critically at messages they are receiving to ask
    critical questions about what is healthy and what
    is not.

10
Presidential Proclamation
  • NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH, 2009
  • During this month, we rededicate ourselves to
    breaking the cycle of violence. By providing
    young people with education about healthy
    relationships, and by changing attitudes that
    support violence, we recognize that domestic
    violence can be prevented.
  • --President Barack Obama
  • THANK YOU
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