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Community Action Kit: Helping Preteens and Teens Build Healthy Relationships by Choose Respect

The Community Action Kit is a tool for adults and professionals to work with preteens and teens to build awareness and skills for healthy relationships. It provides an overview of healthy relationships and dating abuse, and discusses social and relationship skills.

This document discusses the challenges service providers face because of advanced communication technology when working with young people who experience dating violence. The document provides suggestions for teaching young people to use technology safely.

This document discusses the challenges faced by both domestic violence service providers in serving youth and challenges faced by teens seeking help. The document suggests re-evaluating program policies and structures to enhance services to youth.

This document briefly discusses issues in teen dating violence, such as underreporting, denial, victim blaming, and legal options. It then provides suggestions to address the problem of teen dating violence and identifies key components of successful teen dating violence programs.

This document offers suggestions and practical tips for practitioners working with teens. The document suggests that service providers have knowledge of adolescent development approach and apply this knowledge in their work with young people.

The tool is ideal for health care providers providing care to children, parents and adolescents, complete with tips on how to conduct inquiry, assessment, intervention, documentation, and follow-up for domestic violence, along with facts and web links.

* See also: Screening and Assessment for Relationship Abuse from the Runaway & Homeless Youth and Relationship Violence Toolkit of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

Summaries of each title are followed by notes for advocates and, where appropriate, NAESV's position on particular aspects of the Act.

This guidebook contains information on how adults can step forward and help protect children. It describes what to look for and how to talk with other adults and with children about preventing sexual abuse.

Originally developed for jurisdictions awarded grants through the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, this handbook has been adapted to describe a planning and implementation process that is applicable to all jurisdictions, regardless of size, available resources, or expertise level of those involved in the process.

This Sex Offense-Specific Progress Scale is designed to facilitate the clinical assessment of dynamic risk factors that have been associated with the risk of sexual and criminal offending among youths who have committed sexual offenses.