Project PAVE is proud to offer comprehensive dating violence prevention and education programs which serve students, teachers, parents, and other professionals throughout Metro Denver.
If teens are identified by a PAVE educator as having been involved in a violent relationship (either as a victim or abuser), we work diligently with the student and/or school staff members to provide appropriate support. Responses may include referring students to their own in-school support services, referral to another community-based support service, safety planning, or referral to individual or group counseling through PAVE Counseling Services.
If you have questions or would like to schedule a class, group, or presentation, please contact Melina Fraga, BS, Teen Dating Violence Educator. She can be reached by calling Project PAVE at 303-322-2382 or via email at mfraga@projectpave.org. Or, select the links below to find out more about Project PAVE’s Teen Dating Violence Prevention Programs.
- TDV Prevention in High School and Middle School Classrooms
- TDV Peer Education Groups
- Gender-Specific Relationship Groups
- Teacher & Parent Workshops
Through an interactive 5 to 6 day classroom-based prevention curriculum, students gain valuable information about teen dating violence and healthy relationships. After participating in the program, students will be able to identify the warning signs of dating violence, examine gender role socialization, and know bystander intervention skills to help their peers. PAVE has designed separate versions of the curriculum to meet the needs of high school and middle school students.
PAVE’s Educators are available to help students start a leadership group in their school that focuses on addressing issues related to healthy and abusive relationships through the use of peer educators and/or peer prevention groups. Our staff can facilitate a peer group that designs and implements school-wide projects that bring awareness and education to the school community about teen dating violence and how to form healthy relationships.
(Young Women’s Lives & Young Men’s Work)
Teens are empowered to make healthy relationship choices through psycho-educational groups specifically designed for middle and high school students. These weekly groups (usually 14-16 weeks) allow young men and young women to discuss issues in a gender-specific environment. Guided by a caring PAVE Educator, the groups provide a safe place to explore relationship issues like establishing healthy boundaries, finding relationship role-models, identifying dating violence, cultural and societal impacts on relationships, assisting a friend in an unhealthy relationship.
These workshops and trainings offer introductory information on the issues of teen dating violence. Adults learn about the prevalence of violence in teen relationships, how to recognize the warning signs, effective intervention strategies, and how to support teens that are in violent relationships.
