Dating Violence Prevention

Project PAVE is proud to offer comprehensive teen dating violence prevention and intervention programs which offer many services for educators, students, parents, and professionals in the Denver metro community. The following is a list of services available to your school community or organization.

Teen Dating Violence Prevention Education

Through an interactive 6 day classroom based prevention curriculum, high school and middle school students gain valuable information about teen dating violence and healthy relationships. They will identify warning signs; examine gender role socialization; explore healthy relationships and utilize active bystander intervention skills to help their peers.

Healthy Relationships Group

Gender specific psycho-educational groups empower teens to make healthy relationship choices. The Young Women's Lives: Building Self Awareness for Life group is designed for young women to work together as allies, enhance their personal strengths, and maintain healthy relationships. The Young Men's Work: Stopping Violence & Building Community group is designed for young men to work towards unlearning violence and navigating the difficult journey from adolescence to adulthood. Project PAVE offers these 10-12 session groups on-site during school hours or through after school programming. Groups target youth between the ages of 14-19.

Teacher & Parent Workshops

An in-service training for teachers that focuses on building teen dating violence awareness, how to recognize it, and effective intervention strategies. Parent workshops are designed to offer introductory information on teen dating violence and to provide parents with the tools necessary to help their teens have healthy and respectful relationships.

Crisis Intervention & Safety Planning

Crisis intervention is provided on-site to directly assist victims or perpetrators of teen dating violence as well as to help schools or organizations respond appropriately. Responses include referring students to their own in-school support resources, referrals to community based support services and safety planning.

Peer Prevention Group

A youth leadership group that focuses on addressing issues related to healthy and abusive relationships through the use of peer prevention groups and/or clubs. In partnership with a school personnel sponsor, Project PAVE professionals are available to facilitate a peer group that designs and implements school-wide projects that help bring awareness and education to the school community about teen dating violence and how to form healthy relationships.

Youth Community Educators Program

A youth empowerment program that trains East High School teens to present workshops in the community on the topics of teen dating violence and healthy relationships. Youth Community Educators present to a variety of audiences including of youth, parents, professionals and faith-based organizations.