"Healthy relationships bring out the best in you and make you feel good about yourself. A healthy relationship does not mean a 'perfect' relationship, and no one is healthy 100% of the time, but the signs below are behaviors you should strive for in all of your relationships."

"This workshop is designed to help teens learn the importance of healthy relationships in their lives--whether those relationships are with friends, dating partners or themselves. Participants will identify qualities of a healthy relationship, discuss the importance of boundary setting, talk through overcoming rejection and have a safe space to ask relationship questions."

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"Parenting can be tough and your teen dating can add an extra layer of challenges. If you’re feeling confused or stuck, this workshop is here to help! This workshop is designed to offer adults strategies for having conversations with the teens in their lives about healthy relationships, helping teens define and assert boundaries, and intervening with compassion when noticing warning signs that a teen is in relationship trouble."

"While there's been a lot of effort to reduce our families experiencing homelessness, it's still a problem," said Diana Ortiz, Doorways' President and CEO, on The Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU). "Sometimes we don't see it, because families, you won't see them on the street with the children. They may be doubled-up, tripled-up, living unstably from place to place."

"Survivors of domestic violence face mounting precarity as the COVID-19 and eviction crises collide and create fractures in community and household stability. Disasters and emergencies increase frequency and severity of abuse, and the pandemic is no exception. Economic instability, unsafe housing, and lack of social support can dramatically worsen survivors' situations."

"The question should really be to the abuser: 'Why are you holding someone hostage with abuse?' People say it can't have been that bad, because else you would've left. But it's like, no, it's because it was that bad, I couldn't leave."

"Learning how to talk about domestic violence can go a long way towards creating a world where all survivors feel supported, not shamed," says NNEDV. Check out their tips for more information.