Safe Dates  Why Safe Dates?

  Our Program 
An Adolescent Dating Abuse Translators will be provided by the district for
Safe Dates is a ten-session
Prevention Curriculum non-English speaking populations. program that deals with
To access this curriculum, go to
attitudes and behaviors
SafeDates.com. Safe Dates provides associated with dating abuse
instructions and templates for grant writing.
and violence. Each session can
be completed in fifty minutes.
All materials/handouts are
provided:
1 Defining Caring Relationships

2 Defining Dating Abuse

3 Why Do People Abuse?

4 How to Help Friends

5 Helping Friends

6 Overcoming Gender Stereotypes

7 How We Feel, How We Deal

8 Equal Power through Communication

9 Preventing Dating Sexual Abuse

10 Reviewing the ​Safe Dates​ Program

Hazelden Center City, Minnesota 55012

  hazelden.org
 
According to the Center of
Disease Control and Prevention,
every year, 1 in 4 adolescents
experience verbal, physical,
emotional, or sexual abuse from
a partner. Here is what a
quarter of our students might
be experiencing daily:
Loss of appetite. Headaches. Nervousness
Sadness. Self-blame. Confusion
Anxiety. Guilt. Shame
Mistrust of self & others. Depression
Feelings of worthlessness. Death
Suicide
​Research shows that
schools can make a
difference in preventing
teen violence and other
forms of gender-based
violence.
LCAP Funding  Additional Resources
Pupil engagement: ​school attendance
rates, chronic absenteeism rates, middle
school dropout rates, high school dropout
rates, high school graduations rates.
(Priority 5)
School climate:​ pupil suspension rates,
pupil expulsion rates, other local
measures including surveys of pupils,
parents and teachers on the sense of
safety and school connectedness.
(Priority 6)
Behavior
Teenage victims of dating violence are
more likely than their non-abused peers to
smoke, use drugs, engage in unhealthy
dieting (e.g., taking diet pills or laxatives,
vomiting to lose weight), engage in risky
sexual behaviors, and attempt or consider
suicide.
Attendance
Teen dating violence has serious
consequences for victims and their schools.
Witnessing violence has been associated
with decreased school attendance and
academic performance.
Grades
20% of students with mostly D and F
grades have engaged in dating violence in
the last year, while only 6% of students with
mostly A’s have engaged in dating violence.
 
school professionals:
● http://www.norc.org/Research/Projects/Pag
es/survey-on-teen-realtionships-and-intimat
e-violence.aspx
● https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/ha
nging-out-or-hooking-up/
● https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/ha
nging-out-or-hooking-up-teen-safety-card/
● parents:
https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/tal
k-teens-teen-dating-violence/
● https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/wp
-content/uploads/Conversation-Starters-Digi
tal-Dating-Abuse.pdf
● https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/wp
-content/uploads/Quiz-Are-you-modeling-re
spect-at-home.pdf
students:
● Text “loveis” to 22522
● Call (866) 331-9474
● http://www.breakthecycle.org/
● The National Dating Abuse Helpline
1.866.331.9474