Unequal Partners: Helping Teens Avoid, Change, or End Unhealthy Relationships 

Monday, March 17, 2008 in Virginia Beach 

Wednesday, March 19 in Charlottesville 

Please visit here to register: 

http://www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence/index.asp

 Morning beverage, lunch, and afternoon snack provided.

 EVENT AGENDA 

This engaging workshop, targets professionals who work with young people ages 10-17 in school and community settings. Unequal Partners aims to increase professionals' understanding of the dynamics, complexities and risks of adult-teen relationships and improve their effectiveness in helping adolescents develop healthy relationships and avoid, change or leave unhealthy ones. 

Drawing on the Third Edition of the Unequal Partners curriculum, this workshop utilizes interactive methods to encourage participants to reflect upon their own experiences and opinions. Participants will learn strategies for educating and working with groups of adolescents to define healthy relationships, understand guidelines for consent recognize the warning signals of unhealthy relationships and communicate about relationship issues.

Participants will be able to:

• Describe the importance of educational interventions in helping patients, clients and students make healthy decisions about sexual relationships, especially adult-teen relationships

• Describe their attitudes, feelings, and perspectives regarding adult-teen sexual relationships.

•  Name at least two guidelines for determining sexual consent.

•  Know current state laws about adolescent sexual relationships, including adult-teen relationships.

•  Describe at least two educational strategies for educating groups of young people about healthy relationships. 

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Forums on Health Care & Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

Registration is now open for the Forums on Health Care & Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), scheduled to be held in Richmond on April 10 and Fredericksburg on April 15.  The goal of these forums, sponsored by Project RADAR at the Virginia Department of Health's Division of Injury & Violence Prevention, is to provide an opportunity for health professionals and advocates to come together and collaborate/educate one another on training initiatives, policy work, and research related to responding to IPV in the health care setting. 

Registration for these forums is free, but space is limited to 50 participants.  Please forward on the following registration links to colleagues and allied professionals in the health care and advocacy fields. 

If you are interested in being a panel presenter in any of the aforementioned areas, please contact Laurie Crawford (contact info below). 

Link to Richmond Forum on April 10:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=A_2bOI_2fpPuu6LPwzUEovZRDw_3d_3d
 

Link to Fredericksburg Forum on April 15:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=iH0jDalry_2b3i_2fcbJgf0gRQ_3d_3d