building healthy relationships

A natural extension of our Violence Prevention Program, Building Healthy Relationships is focused on helping students understand what is healthy and harmful as they begin to engage in dating and intimate relationships. The program consists of three primary components:

1. Direct work in schools involving interactive exercises tailored to each group ranging from middle school to high school students,
2. Training agency staff who are in direct contact with the teenagers, and
3. Support groups for young women who have identified dating violence as something with which they need help. 

Building Healthy Relationships is an effective way to both communicate with and support teenagers as they embark on and manage intimate relationships in their young lives. By establishing healthy communication patterns, enabling the identification of negative behaviors, and learning to break the cycle and patterns of abuse, young adults come to understand their roles and rights in relationships before they reach the point of having to access crisis intervention or other forms of domestic violence support services.  To learn more about teenage relationship abuse, click here.

If you are interested in learning more or would like to include Building Healthy Relationships or Violence Prevention services in your school or community organization, contact our Program Director at 847-864-8445 ext. 12.