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Less than 3% of students report dating abuse to an authority figure. 6% of physically abused adolescents tell a family member. 61% confide in a friend.
                          
Over 30% tell no one at all.

Map of Schools Visited by Day One since 2003
Click on the image to view a larger map of all the schools Day One has visited since 2003.

 

Please contact us to discuss the specific needs of your group. To request a Community Education presentation, please fill out and send a Workshop Request Form and email it to educator@dayoneny.org. To request a legal workshop, please email attorney@dayoneny.org.

Day One's preventive education program uses role play and interactive elements to raise questions about power and control in relationships among youth.





Excellent presentation on how the legal system addresses teen violence. Excellent description of the court system and the difficulties young adults face there.
-Administration for Children's Services


Thank you for giving your time and sincere effort to both listen to and educate our students. Your experience and opinions were powerful examples for them--directly affecting their potential for developing healthy relationships and effective communication skills…. Many seeds were indeed planted and this is exactly what we had hoped to accomplish. Thank you again for your important work.
-Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice, Brooklyn

Thank you so much for coming to our school. Many students have begun to talk about different experiences they have been exposed to due to the many behaviors associated with relationship and/or domestic abuse. All of the staff as well as the supervisors from the Regional Office were highly impressed. It was extremely engaging and well-explained so our student population could relate.
-MS 399, Bronx

A highly informative and important discussion…. BLSA learned so much about sexual harassment prevention and what the different forms of abuse entail. Your presentation also stirred up some ideas and encouraged us about what we as a student body can do to help our fellow peers and improve the safety of our college environment.
-Marymount Manhattan College, Black & Latino Association


Your presentation … was very informative and thought-provoking, and your one-on-one session with the our peers group was so beneficial and valuable. You have a terrific style and you really connected with the peers.
-Safe Horizon, TWISTED Peer Education Group



Your knowledge and experience had a powerful effect on our students – and they are the better for it.

-Urban Assembly School for Law & Justice



This workshop was excellent. Facilitator was very knowledgeable on the subject and was a good listener. Was very good in keeping the group engaged.

- YABC (Good Shepherds), Adlai Stevenson High School



The presenter did an excellent job with a class that is typically "overly-energized." Her workshop was understandable, concise and informative.

-Hostos Lincoln Academy


Excellent Course--Students were very interactive with the speakers. They were highly interested and attentive.

-MS 80

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Presentations in schools, youth programs and foster care facilities teach teens how to identify the warning signs of dating violence, help a friend who is being abused, and exercise their rights and responsibilities under the law.

In addition to educating youth, Day One trains legal, social service and education professionals and parents to identify dating abuse among youth, make appropriate referrals and offer supportive guidance to youth. By training professionals and parents, Day One helps ensure young people have access to critical information and resources, and supports a violence-free environment for youth.

Youth presentations cover: Adult presentations
cover:
 Legal workshops
cover:
  • Dynamics of power and control
  • Types of abuse
  • Warning signs
  • Helping a friend
  • Obstacles to ending an abusive relationship
  • Criminal and Family Court resources
  • Orders of protection
  • All youth presentation material
  • Mandated reporting
  • Strategies for communicating with youth
  • Stereotypes and assumptions about survivors of dating abuse
  • Referrals
 (for youth and adults)
  • Where and how to get an Order of Protection
  • The difference between Family Court and Criminal Court
  • What rights youth have in court
  • What an Order of Protection can include
  • How to enforce an Order of Protection
  • Other help youth can get from the court
Youth presentations cover:

Adult presentations
cover:

 Legal workshops
cover:
  • Dynamics of power and control
  • Types of abuse
  • Warning signs
  • Helping a friend
  • Obstacles to ending an abusive relationship
  • Criminal and Family Court resources
  • Orders of protection
  • All youth presentation material
  • Mandated reporting
  • Strategies for communicating with youth
  • Stereotypes and assumptions about survivors of dating abuse
  • Referrals

 
  • Where and how to get an Order of Protection
  • The difference between Family Court and Criminal Court
  • What rights you have in court
  • What an Order of Protection can include
  • How to enforce an Order of Protection
  • Other help that you can get from the court

We also offer workshops on related topics, including:

  • Technological abuse
  • Legal resources for survivors of abuse
  • Sexual assault
  • Relationship abuse in the LGBTQ community.
  • Multi-session curricula that includes any and all of these topics.

Please contact us to discuss the specific needs of your group. To request a Community Education presentation, please fill out and send a Workshop Request Form and email it to educator@dayoneny.org. To request a legal workshop, please email attorney@dayoneny.org.

Photo above courtesy of MARILYNN K. YEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES.