Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
Start Strong is the largest initiative ever funded to target 11-14 year-olds and rally entire communities to promote healthy relationships as the way to prevent teen dating violence and abuse. Using older teens as roles models and mentors for 11-14 year olds, together teens can both be teachers and students of healthy relationships.
As you take a tour of the site, we invite you to reflect on one question: What does a healthy relationship look like to you?
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