Resources

For other resources on healthy relationships and how to prevent teen dating violence, visit the following websites:

CDC Resources

CDC Violence Prevention: Intimate Partner Violence Website
CDC's Intimate Partner Violence website offers resources including facts and statistics on teen dating violence.

Understanding Teen Dating Violence, CDC Fact Sheet [324 KB]
This fact sheet provides a basic overview of teen dating abuse. It is intended for the general public.

The Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Grant Program
The RPE program strengthens sexual violence prevention efforts by supporting increased awareness, education and training, and the operation of hotlines. There is an RPE coordinator in every state who can provide referrals or assist with training and other needs related to responding or preventing dating violence in schools and communities.

The Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership through Alliances (DELTA)
The DELTA Program provides funding to support local community coalitions that address intimate partner violence. There are DELTA coordinators in 14 states who can provide referrals or assist with training and other needs related to responding or preventing dating violence in schools and communities.

CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health
The Division's mission is to promote the health and well-being of children and adolescents to enable them to become healthy and productive adults. Their website posts information on adolescent and school health topics as well as prevention tools and materials.

Additional Online Resources

Resources for Adults

Coaching Boys Into Men
Coaching Boys Into Men helps mentors instruct the next generation of men about the attitudes and behaviors that can lead to violence against women and to prevent violence before it begins.

Love is Not Abuse
Love is Not Abuse provides information and tools for adults to learn more about teen dating violence and what they can do to prevent it.

Men Can Stop Rape
Men Can Stop Rape empowers male youth and the institutions that serve them to work as allies with women in preventing rape and other forms of violence. Through awareness-to-action education and community organizing, they promote gender equity and build men's capacity to be strong without being violent.

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
The vision of the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence is to create an organization that encourages and creates unprecedented levels of collaboration among professionals working to end violence against women.

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence website provides resources on how to get help and support and offers information and a 24-hour hotline (I-800-799-SAFE). TTY 1-800-787-3224 for the hearing impaired.

National Sexual Violence Resource Center
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) identifies and disseminates information, resources, and research on all aspects of sexual violence prevention and intervention. The NSVRC website features links to related resources and information about conferences, funding, job announcements, and special events. Additional activities include coordinating national sexual assault awareness activities, identifying emerging policy issues and research needs, issuing a biannual newsletter, and recommending speakers and trainers.

Prevention Connection: The Violence Against Women Prevention Partnership
Prevention Connection, a project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, features an online public listserv and bi-monthly Web-based forums. The listserv and Web forums provide prevention experts with a vehicle for analyzing and discussing ongoing efforts to prevent domestic and sexual violence.

Start Strong
Robert Wood Johnston Foundation's Start Strong initative, intended for 11- to- 14-year-olds, rallies entire communities to promote healthy relationships as the way to prevent teen dating violence. 

The Family Violence Prevention Fund
The Family Violence Prevention Fund is a national non-profit organization that focuses on domestic violence education, prevention, and public policy reform.

Violence Against Women Network
The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women (VAWnet) provides a collection of full-text, searchable resources on domestic violence, sexual violence, and related issues as well as links to an "In the News" section, calendars listing trainings, conferences, grants, and access to the Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month subsites.

 

Resources for Teens

Encourage the teens in your life to visit the following websites to learn more about healthy relationships and how to prevent teen dating violence.

Go Ask Alice!
Columbia University's Health Q&A Internet Service provides answers on many topics, with a health focus and a searchable database.

Know the Red Flags
Know the Red Flags is designed to help young adults form healthy relationships by learning to spot and deal with the warning signs of dating violence.

Loveisrespect.org
Love Is Respect offers resources for teens and young adults about teen dating violence and real-time one-on-one support from trained peer advocates.

See It and Stop It
The See It and Stop It campaign addresses ways teens can work against dating abuse with their everyday actions.

That's Not Cool
That's Not Cool offers teens resources to help them recognize digital dating abuse, take steps to prevent it, and draw their digital line.