Teen Dating Violence (TDV): Resources
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month! #TDVAM
Teen dating violence organizations
- Jennifer Ann's Group in memory of Jennifer Ann Crecente
- One Love Foundation in memory of Yeardley Love
- Dating Abuse Stops Here in memory of Siobhan Louise Russell
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Resources: Preventing Teen Dating Violence
Jennifer Ann's Group is pleased to offer these free resources for schools, parents, churches, and other non-profit organizations to use in their efforts to stop teen dating violence.
We designed these tools to align with our strategy of preventing dating abuse through Awareness, Education, and Advocacy. We hope that they will be helpful in your efforts to prevent dating violence.
Awareness: Teen Dating Violence
If parents, teachers, and teens are not aware of the significance of teen dating violence, they will not understand the importance of educating teens about this problem that affects one in three adolescents.
These videos, video games, banners, and printable resources are intended to increase awareness of teen dating violence.
Education: Teen Dating Violence
The warning signs of an abusive relationship are essential to assist young people in recognizing the difference between healthy and unhealthy behaviors in dating relationships.
These printable resources, Power and Control Wheel, and video games all provide helpful educational information that assists in identifying dating abuse through incorporation of these warning signs.
Advocacy: Teen Dating Violence
In addition to increasing awareness and providing educational information about teen dating violence, it is critical that there are laws in place which provide teens with better protection from abusers as well as requiring schools to teach young people about teen dating violence.
All of the resources on this page should be helpful for sharing with your local school board, state representative, or congressperson to help them understand the importance of supporting policies that will help protect adolescents from dating violence. Please sign and share our petition to advocate for necessary laws that will provide schools, educators, parents, and teens the support they need.
Teen Dating Violence Awareness
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Visit our YouTube channelpage for
more videos about teen dating violence prevention.
Note: We have heard your concerns about YouTube and are transitioning to another platform in order to better protect the privacy and dignity of young people. Stay tuned.
Teen Dating Violence Petition
Please sign our petition to stop teen dating violence and let your elected representatives
know that you believe in educating students about teen dating violence and agree that we should focus our efforts to #stopTDV!
Please share with your friends and family.
Violence Prevention Video Games: Critical Thinking, Healthy Relationships, Resilience
Play and share these award-winning prosocial video games produced by Jennifer Ann's Group. We believe that intentionally designed video games are the best way to increase awareness, educate adolescents, and change unhealthy attitudes in order to help young people live happier, healthier lives.
In addition to dating violence prevention, consent, and healthy relationship games, we also offer free video games designed to foster skills that support the use of critical thinking, empathy, and resilience which are important protective factors against violence. Several of our games have free standards-aligned lesson plans to support classroom use by educators.
Visit our prosocial video game portal or itch.io page for prosocial games or GameJolt page for more video games about bystander awareness, consent, gaslighting, healthy relationships, and teen dating violence prevention.
Printable Teen Dating Violence Resources
To help increase awareness about teen dating violence and domestic violence download and print these one-sheet posters (PDF: 8 1/2" x 11").
Educational Cards about Teen Dating Violence
Now you can print our incredibly popular educational cards!
These are the same educational cards that we have distributed throughout the United States but with the added convenience of printing them at home or school. These images print 8 cards per 8 1/2" x 11" sheet and are lower-resolution images designed for self-printing.
The front of our teen dating violence educational cards list 10 Warning Signs of an Abusive Relationship. On the back of our cards are safety tips and the toll-free number to call the
National Dating Abuse Helpline
(available 24/7).
Educational Cards (front)
Educational Cards (back)
These are the same educational cards shown above but at a resolution suitable for professional printing.
To help increase awareness about Teen Dating Violence and domestic violence just click on the images of the front and back of the images below to download the files for printing (TIFF: 600 DPI).
(Note: These educational cards are available in English and Spanish.)
English Educational Cards: Front
English Educational Cards: Back
Spanish Educational Cards: Front
Spanish Educational Cards: Back
Note: If you represent an organization which has its own helpline or clinic we can customize these cards with your organization's helpline information.
Email us at contact@JenniferAnn.org for details.
Teen Dating Violence Infographic
Our teen dating violence infographic aligns with Jennifer Ann's Group's strategy for stopping teen dating violence. Due to its size we are sharing the infographic with you broken down by section into mini-infographics so that you can print just those sections that you need. If you want the full infographic, not to worry, you'll find the complete infographic below at the end of this section.
To overcome,
first you must understand.
All of these mini-infographics are designed to be used alone if desired and as such they include any relevant citations for those sections.
To print any of these infographics click on the relevant image and you will be able to download a PDF file suitable for printing.
Note: The information from each of these mini-infographics is also incorporated into the full infographic available at the bottom of this section.
Teen dating violence infographic: The Numbers
This first mini-infographic is called The Numbers and focuses on important statistics about teen dating violence.
Teen dating violence infographic: The Victims
The second mini-infographic is called The Victims and highlights the fact that everybody can be affected by dating violence regardless of:
- Gender
- Socio-economic Status
- Sexual Orientation
- Race
Teen dating violence infographic: The Types of Abuse
The third mini-infographic is called The Types of Abuse and provides background
information on the types of teen dating violence and examples of each type of abuse.
Emotional and Verbal Abuse (also called Psychological Abuse) examples include:
- puts you down
- tells you what to wear
- threatens to hurt you or themselves
- blames you for their own anger
- threatens to reveal private information or images
- does not respect your desire to practice safe sex
- hitting
- shoving
- restraining
- grabbing
- shaking
- throwing things
Teen dating violence infographic:
The Use of Technology in Abusive Relationships
This mini-infographic is called The Use of Technology in Abusive Relationships and highlights some of the troubling aspects of the use of technology in abusive relationships (sometimes called digital abuse).
Teen dating violence infographic: The Impact
This mini-infographic for understanding teen dating violence focuses on The Impact of abusive relationships including:
- increased alcohol and drug abuse
- suicidal ideation and attempts
- increased chance of preganancy
- the increased likelihood of domestic abuse as an adult, further contributing to the ongoing cycle of abuse
Teen dating violence infographic: The Solution
The final mini-infographic provides The Solution that Jennifer Ann's Group has followed in our work to stop teen dating violence:
- First, increase awareness.
- Second, educate people about abuse.
- Third, advocate for laws which protect the rights of teens in abusive relationships and require formal policies regarding abuse and funding the teaching of teen dating violence in schools.
Citations for the statistics in the infographic are provided to encourage further investigation and also provide proof of the often surprising statistics about teen dating violence.
Teen Dating Violence - Full Infographic
The full infographic is below. It includes all of the content from the above infographics and ends with a list of some of our websites and social media accounts to stay up to date with Jennifer Ann's Group and share our resources with your friends and family.
If you want to download and print the full infographic click on the image below. You can then download the file for sharing or printing. Although the image that you see below is low resolution, when downloading the file it will be a much higher
resolution. As such, the file might take a little longer to download.
(PDF: 12.79GB)
Teen Dating Violence Infographic
Click for high resolution image suitable for printing (PDF: 12.79GB)
Banners to increase awareness of Teen Dating Violence
Add these banners and images from Jennifer Ann's Group to your websites and blogs to help increase awareness about Teen Dating Violence and domestic violence. Just click on the image you'd like to share and a new browser window will open with that image for you to save and use on your website or blog.
Domestic Violence Power & Control Wheel for Teen Dating Violence
This domestic violence "power wheel" has been developed by Jennifer Ann's Group based on The Duluth Model. We customized this Power & Control Wheel to address Teen Dating Violence and the issues faced by teenagers.
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