Nichelle Mitchem Discusses Teen Dating Violence
Like domestic violence, teen dating violence is a pattern of controlling, and abusive behaviors of one person over another within a romantic relationship. It can include verbal, emotional, physical, sexual, and financial abuse. It can occur in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships. It knows no boundaries and crosses race, socio-economic status, culture, and religion. Violence can happen to anyone.
Annually, 1 out of 11 adolescents reports being a victim of physical dating abuse (CDC 2006). Many of these cases of teen dating violence could have been prevented by helping adolescents to develop skills for healthy relationships with others (Foshee et al. 2005).
Like adults, teenagers can choose better relationships when they learn to identify the early warning signs of an abusive relationship, understand that they have choices, and believe they are valuable people who deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
For further information on teen dating violence, here are several websites you can visit: www.thesafespace.org; and www.breakthecycle.org.
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Nichelle Mitchem Shares Information on This Year’s IVth World Congress on Child and Adolescents Rights Conference
The IVth World Congress on adolescent Rights Conference will be held in San Juan Puerto Rico on November 15-18th 2010. The central theme of the event is “the best-interest of children and adolescents: Well-being and development in the new world economic order.” The main objective of the event is to provide an academic, scientific, and professional forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and experiences regarding the human rights of children and adolescents. For further information on this upcoming conference, visit http://www.childrightscongress.org.
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Nichelle Mitchem Shares Information on Domestic Violence Health Care Response Webinar
The Family Violence Prevention Fund will be conducting a webinar on Thursday, October 14, 2010, 11am-12:30pm PDT entitled Improving Domestic Violence Health Care Responses through Advocacy-led Trainings for Health Care Providers.
The webinar announcement indicates that the training will ”assist domestic violence advocates with concrete information and key points to include in training sessions for health care providers. Specific information addressed will include: understanding the implications of domestic violence on women’s health; key points for health care providers to consider when working with victims; key elements of an appropriate health care response; utilizing screening to identify patients with a history of domestic violence; defining success, documentation in the medical record and referral.”
For further information about this webinar, visit the website for the Family Violence Prevention Fund.
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