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 The week of February 6-10, 2006, was the nation's first National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week. As part of its National Teen Dating Violence Prevention Initiative and with funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the American Bar Association (ABA) developed an educational toolkit; 1,000 of these kits have been disseminated to high schools across the country. As Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), sponsor of the Senate resolution proclaiming National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week, declared, "This deadly cycle must be stopped—for the sake of our kids, grandkids, and our communities." OJJDP Administrator J. Robert Flores concurred, "Research supported by OJJDP has consistently demonstrated that when a youth is exposed to or victimized by abuse it raises the risk of becoming delinquent. At a time when we are concerned with reducing violent crime by girls, we must take advantage of the opportunity to protect them from violence."
Key elements of the ABA toolkit may be downloaded at http://www.abanet.org/unmet/toolkitmaterials.html.
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