Safe Dating: Developing Healthy Relationships from the Start

Every year, one in four adolescents in the United States reports verbal, physical or emotional abuse from a dating partner. Safe Dates is a school-based curriculum specifically designed to help stem this epidemic. This panel explores who is at risk, why, and how this program can help. Guests include: Dara Jarosz, Safe Dates Clinician, National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Middlesex County; Kristin B. Schubert, MPH, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Julia Leonardo, Freshman, Berkeley College, Attended Safe Dates classes, 10th & 11th grade, Carteret High School; Chavonne Perotte, DrPH, Executive Director, Princeton Center for Leadership Training

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