Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
National Program
Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships is an innovative approach to preventing teen dating violence and abuse by teaching 11 to 4 year-olds about healthy relationships.
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Building Healthy Teen Relationships
Video
As this video illustrates, Start Strong is promoting healthy relationships as the way to prevent teen dating violence and abuse before it starts.
Programs and Grants
September 17, 2012
Learn about the programs and grants funded by the Vulnerable Populations Portfolio.
Youth Relationships Survey Instrument
January 1, 2011 | Survey/Poll
On March 29, 2012, Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships announced new data on teen dating violence behaviors and associated risk factors among middle school students.
A Community-Mobilization Approach to Preventing Domestic Violence
April 20, 2012 | Program Result Report
Close to Home, a Dorchester, Massachusetts-based organization, using a community-mobilization approach to prevent domestic violence, launched an effort to replicate its prevention program in three communities in Massachusetts.
New Study Finds Teen Dating Violence Behaviors and Risk Factors Common Among 7th-Grade Students
March 29, 2012 | News Release
Experts Believe Prevention in Middle School Matters.
Lifting Boats Without Closing Gaps
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Despite national prosperity which improved health outcomes for urban children from 1992-2002, disparities between children in distressed versus non-distressed cities, and between Black versus White urban children, did not improve.
Does the Racial Composition of the School Environment Influence Children's Body Mass Index?
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This paper looks at the issues of obesity, race and gender, and determines whether school environment influences body mass index (BMI) and whether the racial and gender context one grows up in may also end up affecting BMI.
Studies on a $6 Billion a Year Problem for Business: Intimate Partner Violence
February 28, 2010 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, studied two workplace strategies to address intimate partner violence: Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), and training and educational campaigns to increase worker knowledge.