Building Healthy Relationships

February is the perfect month to focus on building healthy relationships. Healthy Relationships are a learned behavior. The Women’s Center has made educating our youth about dating violence a priority for 2010. By introducing an effective research-based, national curriculum called “Safe Dates” into local schools, we can help prevent domestic violence by teaching male and female students how to recognize the difference between a healthy and unhealthy relationship. 

They learn that healthy relationships are about equality, pursuing different interests, and supporting separate goals. The Women’s Center offers “equality” cards for Valentine’s Day free of charge to schools that students can exchange with the message “Valentine, don’t just be mine … be yours, too! “ The sender vows to support their Valentine to pursue dreams, listen to them and treat them as an equal. These cards help build awareness that relationships should be built on “equality”, not jealousy and control.