Relationship Violence
Resources & Support
The following resources are intended to supplement information in support of a comprehensive approach to school safety.
Love Is Respect
Love Is Respect’s purpose is to engage, educate, and empower young people to prevent and end abusive relationships. Highly trained advocates offer support, information, and advocacy to young people who have questions or concerns about their dating relationships. They also provide information and support to concerned friends and family members, teachers, counselors, service providers, and members of law enforcement.
Healthy Relationships Toolkit (HeaRT) Training for Educators
A free online course is available to educators, school personnel, youth mentors, and others dedicated to improving teen health. Follow a school administrator throughout his day as he highlights what teen dating violence is and how to prevent it through graphic novel scenarios, interactive exercises, and information gathered from leading experts.
One Love
One Love educates young people about healthy and unhealthy relationships, empowering them to identify and avoid abuse and learn how to love better. Love is the most important thing in our lives, yet we are taught little about it. One Love is on a mission to change that. They educate young people about healthy and unhealthy relationships, empowering them to identify and avoid abuse and learn how to love better.
National Institute of Justice on Teen Dating Violence
Building off a long history of research in the area of intimate partner violence, the National Institute of Justice is now looking to relationships during adolescence to understand the factors that put individuals at risk for involvement in abusive romantic relationships as adults. NIJ is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. They are dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science. They provide objective and independent knowledge and tools to inform the decision-making of the criminal and juvenile justice communities to reduce crime and advance justice, particularly at the state and local levels.
National Institute of Justice's page on Teen Dating Violence
Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Check out "Speak Up. Speak Out." to learn how you can help prevent sexual violence in your school and community. Sexual assault in schools and at colleges and universities is a concern. This resource provides information on the needs required for schools to set up prevention programs in schools and communities successfully.
Prevention in Schools Resources from the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Operating around the clock, seven days a week, confidential and free of cost, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides lifesaving tools and immediate support to enable victims to find safety and live lives free of abuse. Callers to The Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) can expect highly trained, experienced advocates to offer compassionate support, crisis intervention information, educational services, and referral services in more than 200 languages.
The House of Ruth
This resource provides information and additional resources to women and their children facing domestic violence. The House of Ruth leads the fight to end violence against women and their children by confronting the attitudes, behaviors, and systems that perpetuate it, and by providing victims with the services necessary to rebuild their lives safely and free of fear.
Safe Place
Safe Place is a national youth outreach and prevention program for young people under the age of 18 (up to 21 years of age in some communities) in need of immediate help and safety. As a collaborative community prevention initiative, Safe Place designates businesses and organizations as Safe Place locations, making help readily available to youth in communities across the country. Safe Place locations include: libraries, YMCAs, fire stations, public buses, various businesses, and social service facilities.