This PolicyLink report focuses on a paradigm shift in addressing intimate partner violence through a public health framework rather than a criminalization approach. The report identifies ways community stakeholders (such as schools and child welfare systems) can intervene through violence prevention before harm takes place. The report also illustrates the risk and protective factors behind social determinants of health (e.g., poverty and early exposure to emotional trauma and adverse childhood experiences) that drive violent behavior.

This fact sheet from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network summarizes the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and child trauma. It also identifies policy and programmatic recommendations on how to respond to the needs of IPV survivors and their dependent children.

This National Coalition Against Domestic Violence blogpost identifies the reasons why victims of domestic violence do not escape abusive relationships and the barriers they face. It also presents a bullet point list of the societal impediments to addressing domestic violence and violent relationships.

This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report follows up the 2014 CDC Beginning the Dialogue report. The current report illustrates how the field has identified primary prevention and implemented the Social Ecological Model, a mapping of the multiple risk factors contributing to sexual and intimate partner violence at individual, relationship, community, and societal levels. The report also distinguishes between community-level and community-based intimate partner violence prevention approaches. It highlights what is needed to shift prevention efforts toward cross-sector and community-specific partnerships and concludes by highlighting the direction toward which prevention efforts are moving.

The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) developed this Administration for Children and Families Family Room Blog, which highlights three FYSB programs working to prevent or intervene against teen dating violence: the Specialized Services for Abused Parents and their Children grant program, the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, and the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program. Each of these programs offers direct services such as parent education, fosters the creation of support groups, or engages in behavioral interventions. This blog post also discusses partnerships between FYSB and other Office of Family Assistance programs, including the launch of PAIVED (Preventing and Addressing Intimate Violence when Engaging Dads) within the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood initiative, which reviews approaches that federally funded Responsible Fatherhood programs could take regarding domestic violence prevention among fathers.

This fact sheet from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service outlines a description of teen dating violence and offers a set of links to additional publications and resources that the Office of Justice Programs offers.

This 2015 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Youth Risk Behavior Survey offers comprehensive data on health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults, including the prevalence of teen dating violence. The survey data in this report is drawn from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System and covers 37 state surveys and 19 large urban school district surveys conducted among grades 9–12 students.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) produced this factsheet to explain the forms of teen dating violence (i.e., physical and sexual violence, stalking, and psychological aggression) and the extent of this problem. The factsheet also explains the consequences of teen dating violence and offers some guidance on how to prevent these abusive patterns of behavior.

loveisrespect (originally loveisrespect, National Dating Abuse Helpline) is a resource that young people can use to access help and obtain information on healthy and unhealthy and abusive dating relationships and behaviors. This website also provides links to trainings, toolkits, and curricula to support parents, educators, peers, and survivors to support the development of healthy relationships, prevent abuse, and raise awareness of healthy dating behaviors.

Futures Without Violence has produced an interactive website, That’s Not Cool, to build awareness of teen dating violence, unhealthy relationships, and digital abuse. The website includes tools, apps, and resources to help young people identify and avoid dating violence. It also offers to adults (parents, educators, and youth advocates) resources and technical assistance to prevent teen dating violence and address instances where a teenager has experienced violence in person or digitally.