International Women's Day

03.09.2010

Yesterday was International Women's Day which celebrated women and encouraged us to take a moment and reflect on women's issues around the world. For us at PADV Teen Scene, we reflected on the work that we do, the amount of progress that we've made in our community and how far we have to go in reaching our goal of ending teen dating violence.

Last year, PADV presented a total of 67 Teen Dating Violence presentations to 2,939 participants. By giving these presentations at schools, churches and youth groups, we were able to provide the metro Atlanta community with more information about teen dating violence, how to recognize the warning signs in an abusive relationship and tools on establishing healthy dating relationships.

For our first annual Spotlight on Teen Dating Violence summit, we have more than 200 teens, parents, educators, youth leaders and community members coming out to Clark Atlanta University this Saturday. We were overwhelmed and overjoyed at the response from the community. In correlation with our summit, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article promoting the event and sharing the stories of two survivors of teen dating violence; one of which will be sharing their story at the event.

While we are glad to see such great results, but we hope that next year we can reach out to even more teens, parents and youth leaders. If you live in metro Atlanta and are interested in benefiting from a teen dating violence presentation, call PADV at 404-870-9600. For more information, go to http://www.padv.org.