Resources: Youth Dating Violence Prevention

Far From The Heart provides the following resources about the issues of teenage dating abuse and violence for youth.

1. Need Help Right Now?

Kids Help Phone: Toll-free, 24 hour, bilingual and anonymous phone counseling - 1-800-668-6868
Bro-Talk A support zone for teen guys with information about life, school, dating, sex, and mental health. They offer toll-free 24 hour phone counselling and chat counselling during specific hours.
Wes For Youth Online Counselling offers resource links and online counselling.
Love Is Respect: The American Dating Abuse Hotline has information about dating, abuse, sexting, safety planning, and more. Note: They only provide counselling for people within the United States.
Teen Power and Control Wheel is a tool that helps explain the different ways an abusive partner can use power and control to manipulate a relationship.

2. Resources for Youth

Teen Health Source is a resource by Planned Parenthood Toronto with information about sex, sexuality, gender identity, and relationships.
Scarleteen: Sex Education for the Real World has inclusive, comprehensive, supportive sexuality and relationships info for teens and emerging adults.
Rookie Magazine is an independently run online magazine featuring writing, photography, and other forms of artwork inspired by real life and made by and for teenagers.
Planned Parenthood Toronto offers resources about sex, sexuality, gender, and relationships.
Planned Parenthood Regina offers information about sexual health and dating rights.
Bro-talk is a service by Kids Help Phone specifically targeted to teen guys with information about mental health, sex, and relationships. It also offers phone and chat counselling services.
ThatsNotCool.com has resources to help teens identify and prevent digital dating abuse. Features videos, quizzes, FAQ's, and more
A Thin Line is an American resource with information about digital abuse.
Mind Your Mind.ca is an award-winning site for youth by youth. It is a place where you can get information, resources, and the tools to help you manage stress, crisis, and mental health problems. It features games, celebrity interviews, featured issues that are updated often, as well as a link where you can contribute personal stories.

Tools to Change the World

Youth Activist's Toolkit by Advocates for Youth includes instructions and plans to help you organize your community to create positive change
Change the World By Having Fun the YWCA Youth Civic Engagement Toolkit is written for young women and will help you develop the skills to become a positive leader and organizer in your community.

3. Resources for Educators, Parents, and Community Organizers

5 Everyday Ways to Teach Your Kids About Consent includes advice for parents who want to teach the importance of consent to their children
How to Talk to Your Kids About Sexting is an article with advice for parents from Kid's Help Phone
Teaching Sexual Health.ca is an Alberta based resource for teachers and parents with comprehensive sexual health information.
It Starts With You provides resources for adults about raising and mentoring boys with healthy perceptions of masculinity
Ophea.net includes resources and teaching materials for teachers
Veto Violence: Dating Matters teaches strategies to promote healthy teen relationships. This is an online course helping educators and adult mentors to better understand teen dating relationships and support teens as they build healthy relationships. It will take approximately 60 minutes to complete
Draw the Line provides materials and resources to start and support conversations about sexual and gendered violence.
The Fourth R: Relationship Based Violence Prevention: Strategies for Healthy Youth Relationships includes programs, resources and training materials for educators and other front-line professionals who work with youth. All materials are developed by a group of researchers and professionals dedicated to promoting healthy adolescent relationships and reducing risk behaviours.
Beyond the Basics: Sourcebook for sexual health education is a tool for educators who deliver sexual and reproductive health education to 9 to 18 year-olds, containing information on both what to teach and how to teach it. Designed for use in the classroom and in community agencies, Beyond the Basics complements existing programs and curriculum guidelines set by provincial and territorial Ministries of Education.
Technical Packages for Violence Prevention: Using Evidence-based Strategies in Your Violence Prevention Efforts from the Centre for Disease Control includes resources and recommendations for organizations implementing violence prevention programs
Shifting the Paradigm: Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence Toolkit provides facts, ideas, strategies, conversation starters, and resources to everyone on campus who cares about the prevention of sexual violence.
Kids Can Change the World: Using literary media to promote global awareness includes resource recommendations from the Peel District School Board
Far From The Heart Educational Guide on Teenage Dating Violence Prevention

4. Resources for Everyone

Sexuality and U.ca provides comprehensive sexual health information with resources for individuals as well as parents and teachers
Sexual Assault Support.ca by the Ontario Coaliton of Rape Crisis Centres contains resources for survivors, teens, parents, and service providers.
Sex Assault.ca is a Canadian sexual abuse resources website that includes information on psychological healing, sexual assault lawsuits, important statistics, and other facts.
Steps You Can Take to Prevent a Sexual Assault provides bystander intervention techniques from RAINN.
Break the Cycle is an American based website that will tell you more about dating violence, how to recognize it, what you can do, how you can help, and includes resources to help start a movement to prevent it
METRAC will provide tools to build safety, justice and equity in your life, work, school and neighbourhood.
Violence Prevention Grey Bruce is a coordinating committee of service providers in Grey Bruce
Sexual Assault Care Centre Scarborough provides information on sexual assault, rape, myths and facts, sexual assault laws and resources, as well as a link where a person can contribute their own poems, personal reflections or artwork.
Project Respect is a group of youth and adults from British Columbia who work together to prevent sexualized violence. The focus of the web page is especially on date rape and there are many cool links with information about it, definitions, and statisticss. They cover topics including gender scripts, sex, drugs and alcohol, yes means yes, coercion, who's got the power, sex rights, how to help a friend, and how to get help for yourself. There are also quizzes to rate your relationship and to test your sexual knowledge.
Cyberbullying, Sexting, and the Law provides the Department of Justice's Canadian legal perspective on cyberbullying and the non-consensual distribution of intimate images.