Healthy Relationship Basics

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This evidence-based program helps teens recognize the difference between caring, supportive relationships and controlling, manipulative, or abusive relationships. It is during the critical preteen and teen years that young people begin to learn the skills needed to create and foster positive relationships. Safe Dates equips young people with the tools they need to develop these important life skills. Highly engaging and interactive, Safe Dates reflects the issues today's teens face. This is intended to be facilitated by trained facilitators. In Eau Claire County, we facilitate Safe Dates at Augusta High School, Fall Creek High School, McKinley Charter School, ECASD schools through Systems of Care and Life Without Limits, and through community organizations including Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association's Building Bridges program, Western Dairyland's Fresh Start Program and more.

Middle School • High School

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This is a sex education curriculum with individual lessons for K-12 students to learn skills and adopt healthy behaviors. Lessons are on a many topics and many are available in English and Spanish.

K-12

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This is an evidence-based teen dating violence prevention model that focuses on teaching 11-14 year-olds healthy relationship skills and reducing behaviors that increase the risk for dating violence.

Middle School

^{Link takes you to Love is Respect’s website}

This guide can be used in classrooms to start discussions on healthy relationships and model appropriate behaviors through words and actions.

Middle School • High School

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Planned Parenthood education departments provide a robust range of programming options. Evidence-based and delivered by trained professionals as well as options for teachers in their own classrooms

Middle School • High School

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The cycle of violence is a pattern of behaviors which keeps survivors locked in the abusive relationship. Understanding the cycle of violence is crucial in stopping relationship violence.

Middle School • High School • Post-Secondary

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The Equality Wheel is a visual representation of the qualities necessary for healthy relationships.

Middle School • High School

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The Power & Control wheel is a helpful tool in understanding the overall pattern of abusive and violent behaviors, which is caused by a batterer to establish and maintain control over their partner.

Middle School • High School • Post-Secondary

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This wheel identifies behaviors used to exert power and control over dating partners.

Middle School • High School

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This handout helps youth determine where their relationship lies on the spectrum of healthy, unhealthy, and abusive actions.

Middle School • High School • Post-Secondary

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This handout outlines specific ways parents can model healthy relationship attributes/skills.

All Ages

^{Link takes you to Dare2Know’s quiz}

Presents scenarios including being a good friend, dating and boundaries.

K-12

^{Link takes you to Love is Respect’s Website}

A quiz designed to help youth understand if they are exhibiting healthy relationship behaviors towards their partner.

Middle School • High School

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Empowers young people to prevent and end abusive relationships. Also includes quiz to determine if relationship is becoming abuse-free.

High School

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Everyone deserves to be in a safe and healthy relationship. Do you know if your relationship is healthy? Take this quiz to find out.

Middle School • High School

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Infographic that includes definition of victim blaming, and how we can change our language to support survivors and help make violence not normalized.

Middle School • High School

^{Link takes you to Love is Respect’s Website}

A quiz designed to show how ready and willing a person is to help a friend that may be in an abusive relationship.

Middle School • High School

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Infographic that include definition of teen dating violence, signs of abuse and statistics of how many teens have experienced dating violence, and how to support someone when you see or hear harm being done.

Middle School • High School

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This PSA highlights some of the warning signs that your relationship might be going in the wrong direction.

Middle School • High School

^{Link takes you to Talk With Your Kids’ website}

This website has suggestions for conversations with kids about healthy relationships, sexual health, healthy body image, consent, sexual orientation and gender identity.

All Ages

^{Link takes you to Break the Cycle’s website}

This website has handouts, quizzes and other resources to help teach youth how to spot the signs of dating violence and abuse.

Middle School • High School

^{Link takes you to That’s Not Cool’s website}

This interactive website has tools, games, activities, videos, graphics and more focusing on teen dating violence especially digital abuse.

Middle School • High School

^{Link takes you to Planned Parenthood’s website}

Range of programming options: evidence-based and delivered by trained professionals. Comprehensive sex education for K-12 programs about human development, relationships, personal skills, sexual behavior, sexual health, and society and culture.

All Ages