| What is Safe Dates? Healthy Relationships/Safe Dates is a Prevention First initiative designed to address the problem of teen dating voilence in Monmouth County. How? By implementing the research-based curriculum, Safe Dates, in participating schools. In addition to school districts, collaborative partners also include professional agencies that support the same goals. How was this initiative created? Prevention First received a three-year grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's New Jersey Health Initiative in order to implement the Safe Dates curriculum in collaborative Monmouth County school districts. In the fall of 2008, four school districts began implementing the Safe Dates curriculum. Since that time, four additional school districts and an inpatient adolescent treatment facility have joined the effort to promote healthy relationships in Monmouth County. To learn more about the school districts and other partners involved, click here. To learn more about Robert Wood Johnson, click here. Why the Safe Dates curriculum? The Safe Dates curriculum is a researched-based curriculum that has proven, long-term outcomes in preventing abusive relationships and ending abusive behaviors in dating relationships where violence is already happening. To learn more about Safe Dates, click here. Why would professional agencies become involved in Safe Dates? Several professional agencies have joined in the effort to address this issue, as well as Prevention First. These agencies lend their expertise in addressing a very serious concern... To learn more about the collaborative partners, click here. Why Prevention First? Prevention First is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering children and families to handle everyday challenges such as violence and substance abuse. The agency offers a variety of prevention programs to schools in areas including substance abuse, bullying and violence prevention, conflict resolution, life skills education and, now, "healthy relationships" which is about preventing dating abuse, a growing problem facing adolescents today. For more information about Prevention First, click here. Are you interested... ...in becomming a Healthy Relationships/Safe Dates partner? Click here. |
What is your school doing to address this staggering statistic? For more information on dating abuse, click here. |
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This area of the Prevention First website is funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is designed to provide information about the Healthy Relationships/Safe Dates Project implemented by Prevention First and collaborating Monmouth County schools and agencies. |
