STRATEGIES FOR HEALTHY YOUTH RELATIONSHIPS

Comprehensive and Integrated Approaches for Helping Schools and Communities Reduce Violence and Risk-Taking Among Youth

 

Strategies for Healthy Youth Relationships is a consortium of researchers and professionals dedicated to promoting healthy adolescent relationships and reducing risk behaviours. We develop and evaluate programs, resources and training materials for educators and other front-line professionals who work with youth. In particular, we work with schools to promote the neglected R (for relationships) and help build this Fourth R in school climates. Fourth R initiatives use best practice approaches to target multiple forms of violence, including bullying, dating violence, peer violence, and group violence. By building healthy school environments we provide opportunities to engage students in developing healthy relationships and decision-making to provide a solid foundation for their learning experience. Increasing youth relationship skills and targeting risk behaviour with a harm reduction approach empowers adolescents to make healthier decisions about relationships, substance use and sexual behaviour.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of our most recent research. A School-Based Program to Prevent Adolescent Dating Violence: A Cluster Randomized Trial was just released in the August issue of the Archives of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Click here for more information.

Please visit our Curriculum Resources page for more information about Fourth R resources to purchase.

Click here for a summary of our Fourth R findings (May 2010).

Please visit our News page for more information about recent publications, articles, and interviews.