Teen Initiative

The Teen Initiative provides domestic and dating violence prevention, education and services to adolescents who have experienced intimate violence personally or who have witnessed it at home, and to teens who are attempting to understand and maintain healthy dating relationships. The initiative also provides training to parents, school personnel and other youth services professionals on how to help teens build the knowledge and skills needed to prevent domestic violence from occurring in their lives.

Principal objectives of the program are to:

• Increase teens’ awareness and knowledge of healthy and unhealthy intimate relationships

• Increase teens’ ability to respond effectively when conflict arises in a relationship

• Increase the ability of adults in the school and neighborhood community to support teens in forming healthy relationships


For more information, or to have the staff from the Initiative talk to your school, please contact Lisa Nitsch at 410-554-8453 or lisanitsch@hruthmd.org.

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