We all deserve relationships based on trust, honesty, and respect. But, navigating relationships or helping those we care about to feel safe and supported can be confusing. These resources and materials provide helpful information for understanding healthy, unhealthy or abusive relationships and seeking safety and support for ourselves or for others.

Safety Planning

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Find Help Now hotlines and chat links

Get help and support 24/7. These local and national resources are staffed by trained advocates who can provide support for talking through your situation, helping to understand your safety concerns, and identifying resources and services that may be available for additional support.

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Safe + Respectful Shoe Card for teens

This resource card is a printable version of the information and resources contained on the Find Help Now page. The card is sized to be small enough to be easily hidden away. Printed cards are available from DCADV.

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LGBTQ+ Palm Card

This palm card contains information and resources for Delaware’s LGBTQ+ community. The card is sized to be small enough to be easily hidden away. Printed cards are available from DCADV.

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Teen Safety Planning Guide

The Teen Safety Planning Guide, designed by loveisrespect, is a paper-based tool for developing a plan that helps to assess your individual situation and think through lifestyle changes and sources of support that help keep you safe as possible.

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loveisrespect online Safety Planning Tool

A safety plan is a personalized, practical plan that can help you avoid dangerous situations and know the best way to react when you’re in danger. This is an interactive online version of loveisrespect’s teen safety planning tool.

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myPlan App

Everyone deserves to be safe in their intimate relationship, and every situation is unique. myPlan is a digital tool to help with safety decisions if you, or someone you care about, is experiencing abuse in their intimate relationship.

Healthy Relationships

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loveisrespect.org

Loveisrespect strives to be a safe, inclusive space for young people to access information and get help in an environment that is designed specifically for them. Their website provides comprehensive education on healthy, unhealthy and abusive dating relationships and behaviors.

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Age of Consent Flowchart

Consent is an important part of a relationship. Things like age, cognitive abilities, and substance use can make it impossible for a person to legally consent to sexual activity. This flowchart can help guide you through giving and receiving consent.

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Relationship Rights

This document, developed by loveisrespect, outlines fundamental rights we all have in our relationships. These rights can help to establish boundaries and expectations that should be respected by both partners in healthy relationships

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IDSVA Center for Healthy Teen Relationships

Coordinated by the Idaho Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Center for Healthy Teen Relationships promotes healthy relationship skills by engaging and educating young people, parents/caregivers, and adult influencers and providing resources, information and messaging materials to promote positive social norms.

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Healthy Relationships Quiz

This brief quiz helps to uncover whether or not there may be signs a relationship is unhealthy. Courtesy of loveisrespect.org

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Relationship Spectrum

Developed by loveisrespect, this document illustrates relationship characteristics along a continuum from healthy to unhealthy to abusive.

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Power and Control Wheel for Teens

The teen power and control wheel contains common tactics used in abusive relationships. The wheel often helps individuals experiencing dating violence recognize the abuse in their relationship.

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Equality Wheel for Teens

The teen equality wheel illustrates characteristics of healthy, equitable relationships.

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breakthecycle.org

Break the Cycle is a national organization that provides resources and information to support young people 12 – 24 to build healthy relationships and create a culture without abuse.

Tech Safety

If you are being stalked or abused, take steps to keep your abuser from knowing you are looking for help. We’ve compiled a guide for teens to searching, browsing and connecting safely.

Read the Guide

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Love Is Respect.org Social Networking Safety

If your partner is digitally abusive, know their behavior is not acceptable and could be illegal. Check out these tips from LoveIsRespect.org for staying safe on social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram and others.

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Tech Safety.org

Managed by the Safety Net Project at the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), this blog discusses technology, privacy, and safety in the context of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and violence against women.

Helping Others

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Get Help for Someone Else

This link will take you to loveisrespect’s information and resources for those seeking to provide teens with help and support: as a friend, family member or other caring adult.

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Resources for Helping A Friend

Check out these resources from Love Is Respect.org for helping a friend who may be experience violence in their relationship.

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Teen Safe Person/Safe Space Card

This card contains resource information for teens and also serve as a visual cue that you and/or your organization are a safe source for help and support.

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LGBTQ+ Safe Person/Safe Space Card

This card contains resource information for the LGBTQ+ community and also serve as a visual cue that you and/or your organization are a safe source for help and support.

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Teen Dating Violence Resource List

DCADV has compiled a list of awareness campaigns, toolkits, activities, and other resources for anyone working to promote healthy relationships among tweens/teens/young adults.

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