Archive for March, 2011
Trying to Change Social Norms: Start Strong’s Admirable Efforts to Decrease Violence in Schools
Exposure to violence in relationships, families, and communities influences children and adolescents. Adolescent intimate partner violence (IPV) can impede students achieving their academic goals, compromise their physical and mental health, and in extreme cases, result in injury (Schaeffer, Lee, Gallopin, Rosewater, Vollandt, Rosenbluth, et al., n.d.). IPV touches the lives of every person in the [...]
Read More..>>Start Strong: Dating Violence Prevention Initiative
Two and a half years ago, as I was working on our issue on adolescent dating violence, I found that the research and information on adolescent dating violence revolved almost solely around intervention. It was primarily concerned with educating adults and teens to identify the warning signs of dating violence, intervening, and preventing it from [...]
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