Healthy Relationship Promotion
Action Team
Encourages community members across the lifespan to cultivate strong, healthy relationships that foster a safer and more inclusive environment.
Meeting time: Meets monthly on the 3rd Thursday from 1:30-3:00pm
Co-Chairs: Katelyn Wonderlin and Emily Carlson
Why is this an important health issue in Eau Claire?
Unhealthy familial, peer, or dating relationships may serve as risk factors for a variety of harmful health issues including violence, injury, risky sexual behaviors, absence of social support that can contribute to mental health effects, and more.
Positive, healthy teen dating and peer relationships have many benefits for youth, and healthy adult relationships benefit entire communities. Healthy relationships positively impact all people.
Community members have identified that people don’t know how to prevent violence in relationships, and are unaware of resources available for victims of violence.
Goals and
Objectives:
2021-2024
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Objective 1: By the end of 2024, implement or expand at least 3 strategies to increase community knowledge and awareness of healthy relationship skills and resources.
Objective 2: Each year, meaningfully engage with community partners that represent or work with priority populations in Eau Claire County.
Objective 3: By the end of 2024, implement at least 3 community-based initiatives that reduce barriers to building healthy relationships.
Goals and objectives are developed based on root cause analysis, current evidence, state and national plans, and community input, assets, and readiness. More information on this process can be found in Eau Claire County’s Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan.
Minutes from our past meetings:
Projects:
Sharing the Connect with Me Conversation Cards created to help adults (and youth) start tough conversations with youth
Continuing Safe Dates program and other evidence-based healthy relationship promotion programs for community youth.
Sharing the healthy relationship resource toolkit for youth, youth-serving professionals, and priority populations.
Created bookmarks in English, Spanish, and Hmong about consent and shared at outreach events.
Supporting social and emotional instruction in schools.
Engaging and empowering LGBTQ youth, BIPOC youth, and/or disabled youth around healthy relationships and sexual violence prevention.
