Safe Dates

Show Your Support This Sexual Assault Awareness Month with Safe Dates
An Evidence-Based Program to Prevent Dating Violence

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (#SAAM), and the 2018 theme is Embrace Your Voice. Show support by embracing your voice to stop sexual assault and dating violence, and empower youth and teens to do the same – this month and every month.

What is Dating Violence?

Dating violence encompasses more than simply physical aggression. It also includes psychological, sexual, and emotional harm in a relationship, and it can occur both in person and digitally. Unfortunately, dating violence is a relatively common issue among high school students – 21 percent of high school females and 10 percent of high school males who dated in high school reported instances of dating violence in 2015, according to the CDC.

Fortunately, there is something you can do. 

Safe Dates
An Adolescent Dating Abuse Prevention Program

Our evidence-based program, Safe Dates, is a curriculum that educates youth and adolescents on how to identify and prevent dating violence. Through ten engaging sessions, students will learn and discuss the causes of dating violence, how they can help a friend in an abusive relationship, common gender stereotypes regarding dating violence, and important prevention techniques.

Additionally, the curriculum includes:

• Updated statistics and facts on dating violence and sexual assault
• Information on dating abuse through technology
• A CD-ROM with reproducible handouts and parent resources
• A new Families for Safe Dates program to help facilitate conversations about healthy relationships and dating abuse

During Sexual Assault Awareness month and in the months to come, it's important to consider how we're educating youth on the topic of dating violence and sexual assault. Safe Dates is an effective solution, and its interactive format will help students of all backgrounds learn to embrace their voices when it comes to dating violence prevention.