

Provide parental awareness and knowledge about teen dating violence, create opportunity for changing parent communication skills around teen violence and provide skills to help parents help their teens resolve relationship conflict.
Promote expectations for mutually respectful, caring, non-violent relationships among young people and work with youth to help them develop social-emotional skills such as empathy, respect, and healthy communication and conflict resolution skills.
Promotion of social norms that are protective against violence and empower and encourage people to intervene to prevent violence when they see it. Participants in bystander empowerment and education programs learn specific strategies on how to intervene.
Foster protective environments in the workplace through the creation of organizational policies and practices that promote safety and encourage help-seeking behavior. Raising awareness about Partner Violence and Sexual Violence, and working with administrators to develop policies on how incidents can be reported.
Coaching Boys Into Men and Coaching Girls To Leaders are violence prevention programs developed by Futures Without Violence and Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence for athletic coaches to inspire them to teach their young athletes about the importance of respect for themselves and others. Athletic coaches play an extremely influential and unique role in the lives of young athletes. Because of these relationships, coaches are poised to positively influence how young people think and behave, both on and off the field. CBIM is an evidence-based prevention program that trains and motivates high school coaches to teach their young athletes healthy relationship skills and that violence never equals strength. Both programs are specifically developed for coaches to be easily incorporated into regular coaching strategy and practice sessions. Over the course of a season, CBIM coaches lead their players through brief weekly activities that address themes such as personal responsibility, respectful behavior, relationship abuse, consent, and resilience. Participating coaches receive a set of 12 training cards, each with a weekly topic and guidance for discussion.
A structured support group for girls and gender-expansive youth from 9-18 years which integrates relational theory, resiliency practices, and skills training. Designed to increase positive connection, strengths, and competence in girls.
A strengths-based group approach to promote boys’ and young men’s safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years. In this structured environment, boys and young men gain the vital opportunity to address masculine definitions and behaviors and build capacities to find their innate value and create good lives-individually and collectively.
Safe Dates is a school-based prevention program for middle and high school students designed to stop or prevent the initiation of dating violence victimization and perpetration, including the psychological, physical, and sexual abuse that may occur between youths involved in a dating relationship. The program goals are to change adolescent norms on dating violence and gender-roles, improve conflict resolution skills for dating relationships, promote victims’ and perpetrators’ beliefs in the need for help and awareness of community resources for dating violence, encourage help-seeking by victims and perpetrators, and develop peer help-giving skills.

Parent Workshops
Are you up to date in the current technology? Want to know how to connect to your teen on a deeper level? Or Do you want tips on how to teach your child resiliency or communication skills? We can help with these questions and more.

Topic Based
Do you have an interest in a current event regarding domestic or sexual violence? There are a number of topics and issues pertaining to the field of domestic and sexual violence. A typical presentation will present current information on the topic and facilitate a discussion

Community Organizations–Adults
Our advocates work with many local community groups to provide workshops for their clients or their employees. Please contact us for more information.

Community Organizations/Summer Programs
Advocates are available to facilitate workshops and talking circles designed to strengthen resiliency, and to build positive communication. Workshops use group discussion, role play, video and interactive activities.

School Based
Youth engagement activities both during school hours and in after-school programs to promote youth leadership to take concrete action to stop violence and bullying within their peer communities.

Film or Television Screening
Learn about different sexual or domestic violence topics through watching a film with your community. Advocates will then lead the group in dialogue around the events that occurred in the film or television show.

Teens
Advocates are available to facilitate workshops and talking circles designed to strengthen resiliency, and to build positive communication. Workshops use group discussion, role play, video and interactive activities.





