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• ~ O G A•10 LENCE SHOULD NEVER BOUPLE. IT'S NOT P AF A HEALTELATIONSHIP - Eliminate the prevalence and cultural acceptance of teen dating violence in the United States through alive-stage Initiative that includes: program design and implementation strategies; ateen-driven multidisciplinary educational and planning event that will develop Toolkits containing awareness and prevention materials; a national awareness and prevention week of activities that address teen dating violence while, at the same time, coincide with classroom curriculum and involve the entire community in prevention strategies; an evaluation component created to measure the Awareness Week's effect on high school students' dating behaviors and attitudes; and, public policy efforts that will sustain awareness and prevention, and encourage positive youth development. 'I'con Dating Violence is nnl a new phenomenon in the United States- Historically, like other forms oCinterpersonal violence, dating violence • At (east one in five high school girls has been physically o has eluded public exposure until very recently- Although recognized sexually assaulted by a dating partner, significantly increasing as a specifc type of domestic violence, [he developments of specific their risk of drug abuse, suicide and other harmful behavior. needs for teens, and thus the development of spedfic policies and • A current or former boyfriend or gulfuend victimized 94 services fox teen survivors of violence, are not yet very expansive. oC the 7 (r19 year-old female victims of intimate partner violence. The developmental Teaming processes associated wi[6 positive dating • 40% oC Teenage Bids between the ages or 14-17 report or relationship behavior can be confused by messages in the world knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a around our teens, through movies, video games, music and television. boyfriend. Tf those messages blur what constitutes `love" and "hale" in the 58"/0 of rape victims rcpor having been raped between the teenage mind's eye -and if complicated further by peer group ages of 124; and, in 9 out of 10 rapes in which the offender pressures, by [he estebhshed teen culture, and even by what they may was under 18, so was the victim. witness in (heir own families -Ceenagers can become incapacitated • Both victims and abusers attribute the responsibility Cor when a dating partner's behavior mms to undertones of violence. Ill violent dating behavior to victims, dung reasons like: uy nipped to atop it on [heir own, and wit}w ut appropriate adult provocation by the girl; the victim's personality type; the guidance or intervention, the violrnce will likely escalate in both girl's need Cor affection; communication problems; and peer incidence and severity- group in[luence. • IE a teenage girl is physically assaulted during an episode oC It is imperative that the phenomenon of teen dating violence breaks dating violence while in high school, she is statistically highly through the silence barrier and instead becomes instinctive dialogue lil-.ely to experience anther physical assault during her fiat between parents and teens, among students and school personnel, and year in college. within the larger community, but initialed within the very environment . Male peer support for violence against women is a constant where i[ is most hkely to take form and Ls therefore best exposed: predictor oC male violence within post-secondary educational Within our nation's high schools. institutions. • Between 1993 and 7 999 ~?4 0 of all homicides against Females The National Teen Dating Violence Prevention Inihatlve ages 1G-19 were committed be an intimate partner. Funded by Ibe U. S. Department of Health antl iiwuan Services • Yat[erns oC dating violence behavior often start early increase in seventy, and persist in future aduh relnlionships. - ~ - ~ 'v >i.