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Characteristics of Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships

Characteristics of Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships

Website of collected resources including articles, videos, reports, and tools.

By Youth.gov

Expect Respect: Healthy Relationships

Expect Respect: Healthy Relationships

Details signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships to help youth assess their own relationships

By American Academy of Pediatrics 2015

Healthy sexuality: A guide for advocates, counselors and prevention educators

Healthy sexuality: A guide for advocates, counselors and prevention educators

Explains that positive examples of sex and sexuality help youth grow into sexually healthy adults.

By National Sexual Violence Resource Center 2012

Healthy Teen Relationships: Expert Recommendations to Improve Research and Practice on Adolescent Dating Relationships

Healthy Teen Relationships: Expert Recommendations to Improve Research and Practice on Adolescent Dating Relationships
By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2011

Helping Teens Develop Healthy Social Skills and Relationships: What the Research Shows About Navigating Adolescence

Helping Teens Develop Healthy Social Skills and Relationships: What the Research Shows About Navigating Adolescence

A review of more than 360 research studies detailing intervention strategies found to be effective.

By Hair, E, Jager, J (Child Trends) 2002

Love is ...

Love is ...

Love is ... is a video compilation, where local teens share their healthy relationship experiences in one extended video and also in four slightly different, separate mini videos.

By Santa Clara Public Health Department 2016

Love is Respect: Healthy Relationships Section

Love is Respect: Healthy Relationships Section

Tips to help youth and their partners create and maintain a healthy relationship.

Making the Connections: Reducing Teen Pregnancy Risk by Promoting Healthy Relationships

Making the Connections: Reducing Teen Pregnancy Risk by Promoting Healthy Relationships
By FYSB 2013

OAH Healthy Relationships Website

OAH Healthy Relationships Website

Overview and statistics for stakeholders, researchers, practitioners Includes state by state data and resources in these topics: Dating and Sexual Relationships, Bullying, LGBT, Dating Violence, Healthy Friendships, Talking With Teens.

Quiz: Are you in a healthy relationship?

Quiz: Are you in a healthy relationship?

Quiz for teens to determine whether they are in a safe and healthy relationship

By Love is respect.org

Quiz: Are You Modeling Respect at Home

Quiz: Are You Modeling Respect at Home

Quiz for assessing whether you are in a healthy relationship and modeling respect at home.

Quiz: How do you know if your teen is in an unhealthy relationship?

Quiz: How do you know if your teen is in an unhealthy relationship?
By The RESPECT Challenge.org 2015

Relationships First: Creating Connections that Help Young People Thrive

Relationships First: Creating Connections that Help Young People Thrive

Summarizes recent research on developmental relationships; notes they are catalytic for effective education, programs and services for children, youth and families; includes 55 ideas for deepening one-to-one relationships.

By Roehlkepartain E, et al 2017

Sex and the Teen Brain: Disrupting What We Think We Know

Sex and the Teen Brain: Disrupting What We Think We Know

Summary of Kirby Summit on adolescent brain development and neuroscience. Includes three key messages and recommendations for researchers, program developers, TTA providers, and funders.

Teen Dating Violence: How Peers Can Affect Risk & Protective Factors

Teen Dating Violence: How Peers Can Affect Risk & Protective Factors

Research summary that concludes programs aimed at preventing teen dating violence or promoting healthy teen relationships more broadly are likely to be most effective if they take into consideration the potential ways in which peers and peer contexts shape teens’ experiences within close relationships.

By Oudekerk B, et al 2014

The Dynamics in Young Adult Romantic Relationships: Important for Success in Love — and in Life

The Dynamics in Young Adult Romantic Relationships: Important for Success in Love — and in Life

In this Research Brief, Child Trends used the “Romantic Pair” subsample of a long-term study of adolescent health to describe relationship dynamics among young adults in heterosexual relationships.

By Child Trends 2013

The Exchange

The Exchange

Forum to exchange information on order to advance knowledge, collaboration and partnerships to prep teens for the future.

By FYSB

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