Resources

GirlsCantWhat.com (career/empowerment)
Landmark Education (freedom from the past)
PAX Programs; http://www.insyncwithoppositesex.com/dates/schedule.html
(understanding the opposite sex)
CDC Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES) (how risk factors connect)
Family Violence Prevention Fund 
Love Is Respect: National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline (teens can get help over the internet)
Start Strong Project – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (healthy relationships)

Young Adult Books
• Inexcusable by Chris Lynch (sexual assault told by accused perpetrator)
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (sexual assault)
• Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn (dating violence told by perpetrator)
• Dreamland by Sarah Dessen (dating violence)
• Monochrome Days by Cait Irwin (depression through teenager’s eyes)
• Deenie by Judy Blume (scoliosis)

Adult Books
• The Introvert Advantage by Dr. Marti Olsen Laney (biology of personality differences)
• The Disappearing Girl by Dr. Lisa Machoian (teen depression)
• In a Different Voice by Dr. Carol Gilligan (girls’ moral development)
• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Dr. Mary Pipher (girls’ development)
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch (child abuse/foster care)

Films
• A Perfect Fit (Writer/director Ron Brown shows how abandonment and abuse leads to dating violence)
• It Ain’t Love (FACES Maimonides Theatre Network for Teens, Brooklyn, NY) (teen-created dating violence prevention video)