Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
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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.
Interpersonal Violence
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A Community-Mobilization Approach to Preventing Domestic Violence
April 20, 2012 | Program Result
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.
Stopping Teen Dating Violence in New Jersey with Safe Dates
June 20, 2012 | Program Result
From 2008 to 2011, eight projects implemented Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention program, in middle and high schools through New Jersey Health Initiatives, which supports projects that improve the health and health care of state residents.
Strengthening What Works: Preventing Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities
April 26, 2012 | Program Result
Strengthening What Works seeks to enhance the evaluation capacity of community-based organizations using innovative and promising approaches to prevent intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugee communities in the United States.
Fine Tuning Economic Empowerment Tools for Battered South Asian Women
January 25, 2012 | Program Result
Manavi, a New Brunswick, N.J.-based organization serving South Asian women who have suffered domestic violence, launched an economic empowerment program to help survivors move toward economic independence.
Safe Dates Teaches Teenagers the Difference Between Healthy and Abusive Relationships
November 22, 2011 | Program Result
The Princeton Center for Leadership Training partnered with 13 New Jersey high schools to implement Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention curriculum, as part of the New Jersey Health Initiatives program.
Preventing Partner Violence in Refugee and Immigrant Communities
October 1, 2011 | Story
Innovative intimate partner violence-prevention projects will be evaluated as part of a new RWJF national program.
Refugees in Metropolitan Atlanta Get Help with Family Violence
September 9, 2011 | Program Result
The Georgia Department of Human Services contracted with two agencies to expand services to refugees affected by domestic violence in the Greater Atlanta area.
Perpetration of Physical Assault Against Dating Partners, Peers, and Siblings Among a Locally Representative Sample of High School Students in Boston, Massachusetts
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Ten percent of U.S. high school students experience dating violence. This study investigated whether Boston high school students had committed various types of physical abuse against their boyfriends and girlfriends the study also examined violence committed against siblings and peers.
Examining How Intimate Partner Violence is Addressed by Employer Assistance Programs
June 27, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health examined the practices and services related to intimate partner violence offered by employee assistance programs and the experiences of women using these services.