Healthy Relationships & Dating Violence Prevention
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MYAN aims to connect you with a wide range of organizations and resources on this topic. If you do not find what you are looking for, please contact MYAN.
The first week in February each year is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Week.
Who's Who in Maine
2-1-1 Maine
www.211maine.org
Dial 2-1-1 to get connected with a full range of health and human services in your community. In establishing 2-1-1, Maine joins a growing national movement to standardize the availability of information and referral for these services.
Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence
http://www.mcedv.org
The Coalition's work includes: providing services for victims of domestic abuse and their children; public education and school-based prevention programs; training for volunteers, professionals, and others; monitoring of batterers' intervention programs; developing public policy and supporting legislation that protects and empowers victims of domestic violence and holds perpetrators accountable; and providing visibility and a voice to groups that have traditionally been silenced.
This website also provides contact information for regionally-based organizations in Maine that are working to address issues of domestic and dating violence.
Maine CDC/DHHS Public Health Information Inventory
http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/boh/phdata/
This webpage provides the user with a central location to search for public health data and data-related information published by the Maine CDC. It contains nearly 500 recently published documents as well as links to useful public health data websites.
Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine (SARSSM)
http://www.sarsonline.org
SARSSM, the state’s oldest and largest rape crisis center, free support for survivors of sexual assault, their family and friends, and helps eradicate sexual violence.
Print Resources
Additional Web Resources
Choose Respect
http://www.chooserespect.org
Choose Respect, created by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, is a national initiative that encourages youth ages 11–14 to prevent dating violence by developing healthy and respectful relationships with others. Its overall aim is to provide effective messaging that navigate youth through the various stages of change by increasing knowledge and awareness; influencing beliefs; changing attitudes; and modifying and sustaining behavior. Resources on the website include:
- Interactive learning games and tools
- An award-winning video documentary
- Community action kit
- TV and radio public service announcements
- Media access guide
- Talking points
Love Is Not Abuse
http://www.loveisnotabuse.com/
Liz Claiborne's "Love Is Not Abuse" Campaign provides information and tools that men, women, children, teens and corporate executives can use to learn more about the issue and find out how to help.
New Beginnings NH
http://www.newbeginningsnh.org/teens.html
While this is a New Hampshire-based website, they've got lots of resources for teens about domestic violence issues, including a quiz about teen dating violence.
