Back-to-school Resources

For school professionals, parents, coaches, teens and anyone who works with youth, the new school year can bring both excitement and anxiety. Futures Without Violence offers webinars, videos, podcasts and safety cards to help educators, families and young people to be better prepared as school begins, on topics including healthy relationships, healing from trauma and much more.

For colleges

• Our Campus Engaging Men Toolkit provides you with programming and curriculum around building a pipeline for campus men to leverage their strengths to advocate against violence and for gender equity.
• Addressing Sexual + Intimate Partner Violence in Campus Health Centers provides tools and resources to help campus-based healthcare providers incorporate partner and sexual violence prevention and response into their work.
• Beyond Halal and Haram: Muslims, Sex and Relationship Safety safety card for Muslim youth examines balancing traditions and values with sexual health and dating.
• The Sex, Relationships and Respect Campus safety card has information about safe, healthy relationships, prevention strategies, and the impact of violence on health.

For school professionals

• Our Changing Minds NOW website includes powerful videos and resources about how school professionals can help youth overcome trauma. 
• How School Staff Can Help Students Heal from Trauma explains the effects of violence on child development and what adults can do to promote resilience and Five Everyday Gestures to Help Children Heal shows how supportive, caring adults can help prevent or mitigate trauma.
• This webinar provides strategies to help school-based health providers discuss relationship abuse and trafficking with adolescents.
• The Prevalence and Consequences of Teen Economic Abuse delves into what teen economic abuse is, how to watch out for it and what to do if you see it.

For parents and anyone who works with teens

• Dads Get Serious online event is a call to action for everyone to support the mental health of young men and future dads across America.
• This 16 Tips to Support Teens Who May Be Experiencing Teen Dating Violence includes practical and concrete guidelines for supporting teens.
• Empowering Teens in Relationships: Respect and Bodily Autonomy explains the link to body liberation and preventing and addressing teen dating violence. 
• A podcast on teen dating violence and LGBTQ+ youth addresses the unique needs of LGBTQ+ youth.
• At Team Changing Minds you can become a mental health responder for a young person struggling with mental health challenges
• Our Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) violence prevention program trains and motivates high school coaches to teach young male athletes healthy relationship skills and more.

For teens

• We helped launch a new website recently for and by teens on Teen Economic Abuse (TEA) — what is it and how can you address it? —  and includes two animated videos.
• Our Hanging Out or Hooking Up safety card urges teens to reflect on healthy relationships and includes guidance for supporting a friend who is experiencing relationship abuse.