[Example] Podcast episode on General Health
In order to prevent SV, we must understand and address risk and protective factors at the individual, relational, community, and societal levels.
Category Teens/Young Adults
Teen dating violence
Teen dating violence (TDV), also called, “dating violence”, is an adverse childhood experience that affects millions of young people in the United States. Dating violence can take place in person, online, or through technology.
Preventing Sexual Violence
Sexual violence is sexual activity when consent is not obtained or freely given. It is a serious public health problem in the United States that profoundly impacts lifelong health, opportunity, and well-being.
Prevent intimate partner violence
When we teach skills and create the context for healthy relationships now, we create safer, healthier communities for everyone in the future.
Stop sexual violence before it starts
Help us stop sexual violence. Learn more through a CDC infographic about preventing sexual violence.
Together, we will create a healthy and safe future for all youth
When we teach skills for healthy relationships now, we create safer, healthier communities for everyone in the future.
Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
Child abuse and neglect are serious public health problems that can have long-term impact on health, opportunity, and wellbeing. CDC works to understand the problems of child abuse and neglect and prevent them.
The science of Adverse Childhood Experience
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. CDC works to understand ACEs and prevent them.
Youth people experience teen dating violence
Being hit, slammed into something, or injured with an object on purpose at least once by someone they were dating or going out with 6% of heterosexual student, 17% of LGB students and 14% students unsure of their sexuality (during the 12 months before the survey).
Violence against LGB youth
High school students reported they skipped school at least once because of feeling unsafe at school or on their way to or from school.