The majority of teens have been involved in a romantic relationship. The following  brief, Telling It Like It Is: Teen Perspectives on Romantic Relationships, summarizes findings from focus groups that explored what teens themselves have to say about these relationships.  
 
Among the findings:
- Teens view respect, trust, and love as essential to healthy relationships.
- Teens have a clear understanding and expectation of what defines a healthy romantic relationship.
- Teens' relationships typically fall short of their own standards of healthy romantic relationships.
- Infidelity, relationship violence, and few role models contribute to teens' low expectations for healthy relationships.

Telling It Like It Is: Teen Perspectives on Romantic Relationships

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide facts, ideas, strategies, conversation starters, and resources to everyone on campus who cares about the prevention of sexual violence.  Whether you are a faculty or staff member or an administrator or student, there are resources included that are directly relevant to your role in the campus community.

Shifting the Paradigm: Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence

This issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Vol. 56, No. RR-7) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a summary of findings from a review of evidence concerning the effectiveness of universal school-based violence prevention programs.
The Effectiveness of Universal School-Based Programs for the Prevention of Violent and Aggressive Behavior

This compendium provides research and prevention specialists with a set of tools to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence. The compendium includes more than 100 measures, mostly focused on individuals’ violence-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
 
Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools

Indicators, jointly published by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, provides an annual snapshot of specific school crime and safety indicators, covering topics such as victimization, fights, bullying, disorder, teacher injury, weapons, student perceptions of school safety, and others.
 
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2006

This report contains the results from a mulit-year study on the impact of Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs on youth behavior, including sexual abstinence, risks of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, as well as other related outcomes.
 
Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs

These guidelines were designed to help education agencies and schools promote safety and make schools safe places for students to learn.

School Health Guidelines to Prevent Unintentional Injury and Violence

This publication provides students, parents and schools with a guide on how to stop sexual harassment in school. The guide includes strategies to prevent sexual harassment as well as several sexual harassment prevention models and sample guidelines for creating a sexual harassment policy.
 Harassment Free Hallways: How to Stop Sexual Harassment in Schools. A Guide for Students, Parents, and Schools

The YRBSS was developed in 1990 to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States. These behaviors, often established during childhood and early adolescence, include: Tobacco use, Unhealthy dietary behaviors, Inadequate physical activity, Alcohol and other drug use, Sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection, Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence.
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System 2005

This guide is intended to put the issue of schoolwide violence prevention in context for educators and outline an approach for choosing and creating effective prevention programs. The guide covers the following topics:

- Why schoolwide prevention strategies are critical
- Characteristics of a safe school
- Four sources of vulnerability to school violence
- How to plan for strategies that meet school safety needs
- Five effective response strategies
- Useful Web and print resources
 
Creating Schoolwide Prevention and Intervention Strategies