Involving families in teen dating abuse prevention

Involving families in the prevention of adolescent health risk behaviors is challenging but has the potential for promoting effectiveness. This web conference will examine the up coming article in The Journal of Adolescent Health, Assessing the effects of Families for Safe Dates, a family-based teen dating abuse prevention program. Families for Safe Dates is a family-based program for preventing teen dating abuse that has been evaluated using a randomized controlled design. Researchers and prevention practitioners will discuss the development, structure, conceptual basis, and research-based evidence of Families for Safe Dates and explore the benefits and challenges of involving families in the primary prevention of teen dating abuse and considerations for implementing programs such as Families for Safe Dates.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Host: David Lee, CALCASA, PreventConnect

Presenters:

• Vangie Foshee, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Behavior
• Luz McNaughton Reyes, PhD, MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Behavior

Guest:

• Lenny Mujica, MSW, LCSW, Dating Matters Program Manager, Broward County Health Department, Florida

Vangie Foshee	Luz McNaughton Reyes	Lenny Mujica

Materials:

• Slides [PDF]
• Recording [click here to view recording]
• Text chat [PDF]
• Assessing the Effects of Families for Safe Dates, a Family-Based Teen Dating Abuse Prevention Program, Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 51, Issue 4 , Pages 349-356, October 2012

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the challenges in and benefits of engaging families in teen dating abuse prevention
• Gain an understanding of the development, structure and conceptual basis of Families for Safe Dates
• Describe and evaluate the “evidence” for Families for Safe Dates
• Identify and discuss considerations in implementing Families for Safe Dates in your communities
• Become aware of other efforts by the study team at involving families in teen dating abuse prevention