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- During adolescence, young people learn how to form safe and healthy relationships with friends, parents, and teachers. OAH’s Healthy Relationships is an online resource that provides information and tips on issues relating to healthy relationships for adolescents and resources on how to prevent and stop dating violence in communities.
- Because having good information is so important to prevention efforts, OAH compiles state level data sheets called Adolescent Healthy Relationships Facts. These data sheets are based on survey data and posted online as a resource to learn more about the issues adolescents face, including teen dating violence.
Relationship abuse often leads to, and can get worse with, unintended pregnancies, particularly for teens. That is why OAH and FYSB have a number of initiatives to prevent teen pregnancy, support pregnant teens and young parents, and teach healthy relationship skills to prevent dating violence among young and expectant parents. These programs include the OAH Teen Pregnancy Prevention program and FYSB’s Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program’s State Personal Responsibility and Education Program. OAH’s Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF) provides services to expectant and parenting teens, women, fathers, and their families, including improving services for pregnant women who are victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The PAF Resource and Training Center contains a lot of information for PAF grantees and others working in this field.
As the directors of the Office of Adolescent Health, FYSB’s Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, and theFamily Violence Prevention and Services Program, we are continually working to promote the health, safety, and well-being of young people in communities across the United States. Too many teens experience dating violence but are afraid to talk about it. Through our combined efforts, and those of our grantees, we are hopeful that more youth will feel safe speaking up and that all young people understand that their relationships affect their health.
- Screening and counseling fact sheet, OWH, 2013, http://www.womenshealth.gov/publications/our-publications/fact-sheet/screening-counseling-fact-sheet.html
- Intimate Partner Violence: Risk and Protective Factors, CDC, 2013,http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/riskprotectivefactors.html
- Silverman JG, Raj A, Clements K. “Dating violence and associated sexual risk and pregnancy among U.S. adolescent girls.”American Journal of Pediatrics, 2004.