Abuse Prevention
We believe that the best prevention against abusive relationships is:
- positive, loving relationships,
- knowing that our first responsibility as parents is to love our children through the long, ever-changing process of growing into adulthood,
- teaching our children how to give love and receive it,
- helping them to become strong, self-confident individuals who are
- respectful of others,
- responsible as family members, as students, and as citizens,
- loving, caring, and gracious in all relationships
- respectful of others,
Our program plays a small but important role in that parenting process--helping children to negotiate each stage of their relational development. It does this by:
- fostering parent-child bonding,
- initiating age-appropriate family conversations about positive, loving relationships and how they differ from negative, harmful relationships,
- helping children analyze their own developing experiences of friendship, love, and (eventually) infatuation,
- teaching children to be aware of the kinds of exploitation and abuse that can often be found in their real-life experiences,
- providing parents with the opportunity and vocabulary to talk with their children about abusive relationships:
- how to avoid being abused and
- how to avoid becoming abusive
More helpful links to additional prevention ideas:
Click Here: for Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets that are essential to raising successful young people.
