Each February, young adults and their loved ones across the nation raise awareness about the issue of teen dating violence through Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM). This annual, month-long effort focuses on advocacy and education to stop dating abuse before it starts.

Dating violence is more common than you may think, especially among teens and young adults: 1 in 3 teens will experience physical, sexual, or emotional abuse from someone they’re in a relationship with before they become adults. 

Images from past Tri-Valley Haven Prevention Classes

Tri-Valley Haven (TVH) creates a safer school environment by providing Healthy Relationship and Consent education classes for middle and high school students. 

For middle school students, sessions will be conducted to inform pupils about healthy relationships and strong boundaries. Tri-Valley Haven’s preventionists provide techniques to help students respond safely to situations now and for their entire lifetime. The training utilizes “real life” bystander intervention scenarios about relationships that are empowering and help change negative student interactions.

Age-appropriate presentations are conducted to engage and inform students on identifying the signs of a healthy relationship, the warning signs of an unhealthy relationship, safe ways to prevent teen dating violence, as well as sexual assault prevention and consent. Learning what sexual consent is, and how to obtain it is key. TVH incorporates real-life scenarios around sexual consent into our presentations. This allows all students to learn strategies to help them stay safe and help them maintain safe limits. Our focus will be on empowering teens and changing behavior.

If a parent, teacher or student has questions about setting up a

Tri-Valley Haven Prevention Training, please contact Sarah@trivalleyhaven.org.

“Creating Homes Safe From Abuse.”

Tri-Valley Haven is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the tax ID 94-2462357