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Young people need support navigating dating and relationships. Adults who live or work with youth play a key role in modeling what safe, healthy relationships look like.
Project PEACE works with youth, families, and community partners to build those skills and prevent harm.
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According to 2019 data from the Virginia Department of Health's Youth Risk Behavior Survey, in Arlington Public Schools:
- 25% of female students in grades 8, 10, and 12 reported that someone they went out with put them down or called them names?
- 20% reported a dating partner made unwanted sexual contact with them.
These experiences affect young people every day, and they are preventable with education and support.
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Sexual assault, dating violence, and intimate partner violence are preventable. Arlington is committed to ending violence before it begins through prevention and outreach across the county.
Project PEACE'S prevention efforts help people:
- Understand what healthy and unhealthy relationships look like
- Learn the difference between healthy sexuality and force or coercion
- Support one another and stay safe
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Askable Adult Initiative
Adopted by the Vermont Network, Project PEACE's Askable Adult initiative aims to ensure every young person in Arlington County has at least one askable adult — someone who creates a safe, nonjudgmental space for youth to ask questions and seek guidance about what matters most to them.
Being an askable adult builds trust, strengthens communication, and provides emotional support, empowering youth to navigate challenges with confidence.
Visit the Askable Adult webpage to learn more about skill-building for adults or to attend an upcoming workshop.
Healthy Relationships Taskforce
In partnership with the Arlington Teen Network Board, the Healthy Relationships Task Force (HRT) is made up of students from all Arlington high schools. The group meets bimonthly to raise awareness about healthy relationships and consent through educational campaigns, meetings, and outreach across Arlington County Public Schools and the community.
Engaging Men and Boys
Project PEACE envisions an Arlington where men and boys can explore their identities without limitations, build healthy relationships, and commit to ending sexual and intimate partner violence.
If you're interested in promoting healthy relationships, healthy manhood, and positive development among men and boys, consider joining Project PEACE's Goal 1 Prevention Committee, which focuses on prevention and healthy relationships. Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month.
To learn more, email ablowe@arlingtonva.us.
PEACE Begins at Home
Healthy relationships don't just happen — we learn how to build them. This community workshop series gives adults the chance to strengthen their relationship skills. Topics include safe and healthy intimate relationships, how to navigate disagreements in healthy ways, and how to support a friend in a unsafe or unhealthy relationship. Workshops are free, offered both virtually and in person, and open to all.
Brochures and resources on healthy dating and relationships, created by Arlington youth, for Arlington youth, with support from students at Wakefield and H-B Woodlawn.
Presentations for health classes or assemblies to complement existing education efforts.
Interactive tables during lunch or after-school activities focused on relationships and consent, with activities and giveaways.
Trainings on violence prevention, bystander intervention, and responding to disclosures of abuse. Trainings range from brief 15-minute overviews to interactive sessions lasting an hour or more.
- Trainings and technical assistance
Support for organizations and businesses looking to train staff, volunteers, or community members, or to create or strengthen policies and procedures related to preventing and responding to sexual, domestic, and dating violence.
- Conversations with adults who support youth
Sessions for PTA meetings, staff or team meetings, or stand-alone events, with promotion support available.
Brochures, fact sheets, and online trainings that help adults support youth in developing healthy relationships.
- Resource tables for parents and caregivers
Interactive tables at PTA meetings or parent outreach events focused on supporting teens in dating relationships and understanding consent.
To request a free presentation, training, or materials contact Project PEACE at ablowe@arlingtonva.us.
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Videos and Trainings
Free videos and trainings to help start the conversation.
For Youth
- GAME ON: GAME ON is the centerpiece of SafeBAE’s 2018 Sexual Assault Awareness Campaign, BAEcode. The campaign empowers teens to prevent sexual harassment and assault within their peer groups. Activist tools and guides for presenters, parents, and teens are available.
- Tea Consent: A simple, engaging explanation of consent using a tea analogy, designed for pre-teens and teens.
- Consent for Kids: An age-appropriate introduction to consent for younger children.
- Bystander Intervention: A video created by Michigan State University’s Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence (SARV) Prevention Program that introduces bystander intervention concepts for high school audiences.
For Parents
- Project PEACE Panel on Masculinity and Sexual Assault: A recorded community event featuring male leaders in Arlington talking about masculinity and violence prevention.
- Culture Reframed: A free online program for parents of tweens, with scripts to support important conversations about pornography.
- #UsToo: A video that shows what sexual harassment can look like in a middle school setting.
For Educators and Youth-Serving Organization Staff
- Askable Adult Initiative: Works to ensure every young person in Arlington County has at least one askable adult — someone who creates a safe, nonjudgmental space for youth to ask questions and seek guidance about what matters most to them.
- Project PEACE Panel on Masculinity and Sexual Assault: A recorded community event featuring male leaders in Arlington talking about masculinity and violence prevention.
- Culture Reframed: A free online program for parents of tweens that includes scripts to support conversations about pornography.
- #UsToo: A video that shows what sexual harassment can look like in a middle school setting.
Downloadable Resources
Free materials you can download, share, or print. To request print versions email info-projectPEACE@arlingtonva.us.
About Sexual and Domestic Violence
About Sexual Assault Response
For Adults Supporting Youth