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RESOURCES: Friendships & Relationships
Building healthy friendships and relationships is an important part of growing up. This section provides resources to help youth understand the qualities of healthy relationships, communicate effectively, set boundaries, practice consent, recognize unhealthy or abusive behaviors, and build safe, respectful connections with friends, family members, and partners.
Types of Relationships
Types of Relationships
Resource Type: E-Learning Module
Source: Unaccompanied Children Resource Center, USCRI
Description: This interactive learning module helps youth recognize the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships. Through engaging activities, participants explore topics such as trust, respect, communication, boundaries, consent, and emotional and physical safety to build the skills needed for healthy relationships.
Healthy Relationships for Teens Toolkit
Healthy Relationships for Teens Toolkit
Resource Type: Website
Source: Healthy Relationships Initiative
Languages: English
Description: This toolkit helps teens build the knowledge and skills needed to develop healthy, respectful, and safe relationships. Through reflection activities, conversation starters, and practical tip sheets, it explores topics such as communication, boundaries, conflict resolution, consent, social media, dating, and recognizing unhealthy or abusive relationships.
Am I in a Healthy Relationship?
Am I in a Healthy Relationship?
Resource Type: Website
Source: Nemours Teen Health
Description: This resource helps teens identify the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships. It explores topics such as respect, trust, honesty, communication, boundaries, support, and recognizing warning signs of controlling or abusive behavior to help youth build safe, healthy relationships.
Healthy Relationships 101
Healthy Relationships 101
Resource Type: Website
Source: Healthy Relationships 101
Languages: English
Description: This resource helps youth recognize the characteristics of healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationships.
Age of Consent
Age of Consent
Resource Type: PDF
Source: Refugee Youth Resource Center, USCRI
Description: This resource help youth understand age of consent laws in the U.S. including what is age of consent and the legal consequences of engaging in sexual activity with someone below the age of consent. It also explains how positions of authority can affect consent laws and encourages youth to seek guidance from a trusted adult if they have questions or concerns.
What Makes a Healthy Relationship?
What Makes a Healthy Relationship?
Resource Type: Video
Source: Amaze
Languages: English, Amharic, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Swahili, Vietnamese, and more
Description: This animated video helps youth recognize the signs of healthy and unhealthy friendships including red flags to watch out for. The video encourages young people to prioritize their well-being, self-worth, and dignity in relationships.