Preventing Youth Dating Violence

What Youth Need to Know

There’s Another Way

This whiteboard animated video was written and voiced by PREVNet’s National Youth Advisory Committee to help start difficult conversations about dating scenarios that young people can find themselves in. The Youth Advisory Committee hopes this video will help classrooms and youth programs discuss healthy relationships and consent culture.

I’m Just Not Feeling It Right Now

Podcast Episodes by PREVNet’s National Youth Advisory Committee

Building Support Systems in the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community Building Support Systems in the BIPOC Community On Self-Worth

PREVNet’s National Youth Advisory Committee’s Self-Worth Tool Kit Zine

This Self-Worth Tool Kit is designed as a Zine, meant help youth reflect on their relationship with themselves and with others. Also featuring poems written by members of the NYAC, this guided reflection is meant to offer a way to identify supportive relationships and assess youths’ self-worth.

Download the Zine [PDF] [version français]

Web-based Resources

- - - - Love is Respect: https://www.loveisrespect.org
        (has multiple handouts on dating violence, communication skills, etc.)
        
        The Fourth R: https://youthrelationships.org
        
        That’s Not Cool: https://thatsnotcool.com
        
        Glossary of Gender-Based Violence: https://www.vawlearningnetwork.ca/our-work/glossary/
        
        New York State: https://www.ny.gov/programs/teen-dating-abuse-awareness-and-prevention
        
        Futures Without Violence: https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org
        
        Youth.gov: https://youth.gov/youth-topics/teen-dating-violence
        
        Family Lives: https://www.familylives.org.uk/advice/teenagers/sex/abusive-relationships/

Healthy Relationships Posters

Three informational posters were created by PREVNet’s National Youth Advisory Committee to help youth in Canada better understand healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviours. The content is evidence-informed and has been reviewed by teen violence prevention experts.

These posters address important relationship topics, like building healthy relationships, the warning signs of unhealthy relationships, and how to get help if you think you might be in an unhealthy or dangerous relationship.

View the posters and request a completely free poster for your school or organization on this webpage: youthdatingviolence.prevnet.ca/poster

PREVNet is located at the University of Calgary, located in the heart of Southern Alberta. We acknowledge and pay tribute to the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).

PREVNet works to eliminate violence and promote healthy relationships for youth and is dedicated to working toward addressing the systemic racism and the impacts of colonization that puts marginalized groups at higher risks of violence. PREVNet believes it is our collective responsibility to listen, learn, and act to ensure the rights of Indigenous people are recognized and implemented.