​​​​​​​​​Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention

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The Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program includes multiple components in the community:

• Healthy Relationships "Start Talking" Curriculum in the schools

• LGBTQ focused prevention programming with Time Out Youth

• Youth led Social Norms Campaign

• LoveSpeaksOut Teen Dating Violence Speaker's Bureau

• Teen Dating Violence Awareness Committee

Events:

LoveSpeaksOut Teen Dating Violence Training

Friday, July 6^th, 2018

9am - 1pm

RSVP to Alex.Pyun@mecklenburgcountync.gov

• Learn activities that teach about dating violence
• Learn violence prevention methods
  
• Learn about speaking to teens, terminology and digital dating issues
• Train for community presentations
• Training includes the LoveSpeaksOut curriculum
  

View the Training Flyer

ForwardForLoves 5th Annual Dance & Open Mic Teen Night

For Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

Saturday, Feb. 10 from 6-10 p.m.

Stratford Richardson YMCA, 1946 West Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28206

Free Registration at EventBrite

https://F4L2018.EventBrite.com

Featuring...

• DJ
• Free Dinner
• Prizes
• Teen Panel
• Your Stage
• Singing
• Poetry
• Rap
• Art
• Dance

See Dance & Open Mic Teen Night Flyer

Teen Dating Violence Speakers Training

Saturday, March 3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

700 N. Tryon St. Charlotte NC, Kitchen Meeting Room

Teens, Adults and Professional all welcome

See Teen Dating Violence Speakers Training Flyer

Want to plan your own awareness events?   

Check out these resources:

Love Is Respect.org​
Hotline: 1-866-331-9474
Other Resources 

Join our Text Campaign:

Under 21 years old?
TEXT teenhealth1 to 877877

21 years and older?
TEXT teenhealth2to 877877​

Social Media: 

Are you on Facebook? Twitter? Instagram?      Use:  #TDVAclt   #Orange4Love   #Forward4Love

• Instagram: TDVA_CLT
• Facebook: Mecklenburg County Community Support Services

About the Program:

The Healthy Relationships "Start Talking" Curriculum in the schools includes multi-session programming with students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools on topics including skills for healthy relationships, conflict resolution, recognizing dating abuse, media literacy, how to help a friend, and understanding the resources. In partnership with Time Out Youth we coordinate prevention programming specifically for LGBTQ identified youth. Through the Forward youth group, young people involved in our programming have the opportunity to use their voices to make an impact on our cultural norms by creating and launching a social norms campaign.

LoveSpeaksOut is a youth-adult speaker's bureau that engages, educates, and empowers youth to speak out against teen dating violence to create a world where all teens experience healthy relationships. Mecklenburg County CSS has led the collaboration of multiple community agencies as part of the Teen Dating Violence Awareness Committee including: Anuvia Prevention and Recovery Center, Center for Prevention Services, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Girl Talk Foundation, Inc., Jewish Family Services of Greater Charlotte, Inc., Johnson C. Smith University, Safe Alliance, Teen Health Connection, Time Out Youth, the Forward Youth Group, the Center for Wellness Promotion at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the With One Word Foundation. This committee works to raise awareness in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area around the issue of teen dating violence and to promote healthy relationships among young people for February, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month.

For more information about any of our Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program components, please contact CSSPrevention@MecklenburgCountyNC.gov or call 704-336-3210.

Mecklenburg County CSS has led the collaboration of multiple community agencies as part of the Teen Dating Violence Awareness Committee including: Anuvia Prevention and Recovery Center, Center for Prevention Services, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Girl Talk Foundation, Inc., Jewish Family Services of Greater Charlotte, Inc., Johnson C. Smith University, Safe Alliance, Teen Health Connection, Time Out Youth, the Forward Youth Group, the Center for Wellness Promotion at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the With One Word Foundation