teen dating violence

Date: 9/15/2010 | Time: 6:24 | Size: 4 MB Two young women discuss their attempts to understand dating violence in their Chicago neighborhood and what they and other teens are doing about the problem.   JOHN LINGAN:  Welcome to the Positive Youth Development Podcast Series from the Family and Youth Services Bureau within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  The series...
Two young women discuss their attempts to understand dating violence in their Chicago neighborhood and what they and other teens are doing about the problem. Time: 6:50 | Size: 4 MB | Transcript    
Dating violence--physical, emotional or sexual—is all too common among American adolescents, according to the latest research. But taking a public-health approach to the problem can prevent abusive relationships among young people.     (Publications discussed here do not necessarily reflect the views of NCFY, the Family and Youth Services Bureau or the Administration for...
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A young woman talks about surviving acquaintance rape at age 17 and gives advice about how to get help after sexual assault or rape. Time: 08:48 | Size: 8.3 MB | Transcript    
When young people seek help from an emergency shelter funded by the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), nearly 9 times out of 10 they cite “family dynamics” among the reasons they left home. The term can indicate many kinds of conflict—arguing with parents or a step parent, not getting along with a sibling—but for many young people it reflects an atmosphere of...
When research revealed that almost one-third of homeless and runaway youth in Hollywood, California, were or had been in an abusive intimate relationship, Lisa de Gyarfas knew that something had to be done.
When Jessica Nunan, interim executive director of Caminar Latino in Atlanta, Georgia, asked the high-risk young people in her relationship violence prevention group whether Latinos experienced violence differently than other racial and ethnic groups, they considered her question thoughtfully and answered in a word. No.
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