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.
Interpersonal Violence
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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.
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.
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.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches Largest National Public Health Initiative Ever Funded to Stop the Spread of Teen Dating Violence
July 30, 2009 | News Release
Blue Shield of California Foundation and Family Violence Prevention Fund unite with RWJF to build Start Strong, the largest prevention initiative aimed at 11- to 14-year-olds.
Teaching Adolescents about Abusive Dating
November 22, 2011 | Program Result
The School-Based Youth Services Program incorporated Safe Dates - a dating abuse prevention course - into the ninth-grade health curriculum at four vocational high schools in Essex County, New Jersey.
Urban Health Initiative: Working to Ensure the Health and Safety of Children
National Program
Program to improve the health and safety of young people in urban areas by improving collaboration among youth-serving agencies and organizations.
Growing Up in Violent Communities
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Living in a low-conflict family is insufficient to protect girls from the negative effects of growing up in a violent community.
The Urban Health Initiative
January 1, 2008 | Book
The Urban Health Initiative, a major effort of the Foundation, aims to improve the health and safety of children living in five medium-size and large cities.
Prevention in Middle School Matters
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.