Reduce Youth Violence and Bullying

Adolescence is an important time when young people learn how to form safe and healthy relationships with friends, parents, teachers, and romantic partners. Relationships contribute significantly to young people’s development. Peers play a big role in that development, but relationships with caring adults – including parents, aunties, teachers, mentors or coaches – are also important.

Often, the adult-adolescent relationship is one of the most important relationships that inform how a young person handles other relationships in his or her life. Unfortunately, adolescents sometimes develop unhealthy relationships and experience or exhibit bullying or dating violence.

Learn more about Alaskan adolescents’ violence & bullying facts:

• Office of Adolescent Health Healthy Relationships Fact Sheet (Alaska)
• Alaskan Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance Survey
  
• Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Dashboard – includes some youth data, but not exclusively
• School Health Profiles
• School Climate and Connectedness Survey

Current Violence & Bullying Prevention Projects in Alaska:

• Bringing in the Bystander
• The Fourth R for Healthy Relationships
• Healthy Relationships Plus Program
• Lead On
• Youth Violence & Bullying Publications & Resources