Safe Dates is a curriculum based on Teen Dating Violence prevention developed by Hazelden and written by Vangle Foshee, P.H.D., and Stacey Longwick, P.H.D. It consists of nine sessions that focus on the many aspects of Teen Dating Violence.
The Sessions are as follows:
Defining Caring Relationships
Defining Dating Abuse
Why Do People Abuse?
How to Help Friends
Helping Friends
Overcoming Gender Stereotypes
How We Feel, How We Deal
Equal Power Through Communication
Preventing Dating Sexual Abuse
This curriculum is taught in Milaca, Princeton, and Onamia High Schools (at the grade levels determined by each school) by Safe Dates Coordinator Tearza Jones. Tearza is also willing to provide services to any outside group in Mille Lacs County who is interested in receiving a presentation of the Safe Dates curriculum. Check out ChooseRespect.org and ThatsNotCool.org
