Articles

• Longitudinal Associations Between Teen Dating Violence Victimization and Adverse Health Outcomes (pdf)
  Compared with participants reporting no teen dating violence victimization, female participants experiencing victimization reported increased heavy episodic drinking, depressive symptomatology, suicidal ideation, smoking, and IPV victimization, whereas male participants experiencing victimization reported increased antisocial behaviors, suicidal ideation, marijuana use, and IPV victimization. The results suggest that dating violence experienced during adolescence is related to adverse health outcomes in young adulthood. Findings from this study emphasize the importance of screening and offering secondary prevention programs to both male and female victims.
• Adolescent Dating Violence: A National Assessment of School Counselors' Perceptions and Practices (pdf)
  A majority of the school counselors reported that they did not have a protocol in their schools to respond to an incident of adolescent dating violence (81.3%). Additionally, the majority (90%) of counselors reported that in the past 2 years, training to assist survivors of teen dating abuse has not been provided to personnel in their schools, their school did not conduct periodic student surveys that include questions on teen dating abuse behaviors (83%), and their school did not have a committee that meets periodically to address health and safety issues that include teen dating abuse (76%).
• National Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month Conference
  Sherry Iverson, Executive Director of the Idaho Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Kelly Miller from the Idaho Coalition against Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Senator Mike Crapo were at the Idaho Capitol on February 21 to raise awareness for National Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month.
  
  “Over the past 10 years, there has been a growing field of research that demonstrates a clear link between adolescent dating abuse, participation in other risk behaviors, and long-term health consequences. In addition to physical injuries, teens who are victims of dating violence face a host of negative health consequences including depression and suicide, eating disorders, and more likely to engage in risky behaviors such as smoking and alcohol abuse. Victims of dating violence are also three times more likely to become pregnant and more than two times as likely to report a sexually transmitted disease. Health care providers can play a key role in the solution—pediatricians, family practice physicians, and nurses in all health care settings—have critical opportunities to engage in discussions with young people about healthly teen relationships and teen dating abuse.”
• Teen Dating Violence Often Occurs Alongside Other Abuse
  The American Psychological Association recently asked Sherry L. Hamby, PhD, is a research associate professor at Sewanee, the University of the South the several questions about teenage dating violence.
• Crossing The Line: Sexual Harrassment at School (pdf)
• CDC Announces New Initiative to Help Urban Communities Prevent Teen Dating Violence
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded grants to four communities for its new teen dating violence prevention initiative, Dating Matters^TM.
• Senator Crapo Issues Op-Ed: We Have A Responsibility To End Violence
  Between January and June of this year alone, there have been 15 intimate-partner related deaths in Idaho. We all have an individual and collective responsibility to end violence in our homes and communities.
• Dating violence common among teens in the ER: Study
  More than half of teens and young adults treated at an inner-city emergency room said they had experienced dating violence, either as a victim or a perpetrator, in a new study.
• Lessons Learned from the Idaho Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Project (pdf)
• Role of the Pediatrician in Youth Violence Prevention (pdf)
  Youth violence continues to be a serious threat to the health of children and adolescents in the United States. It is crucial that pediatricians clearly define their role and develop the appropriate skills to address this threat effectively.
• Crossing The Line: Sexual Harrassment at School (pdf)
• Nation's Teen Pregnancy Rate Rose 3% in 2006 from The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (pdf)

Links

• Family Violence Prevention Fund (website)
• Coaching Boys into Men (website)
• Reveal 4 Real (website)
  Created by Central District Health Department in an effort to promote reproductive health and wellness in our community