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This section of Anonymiss is designated for all matters concerning dating violence. This section is for both teens and adults; as well as parents of teens who are dating and/or have been victims of dating violence.
From: The National Domestic Violence Hotline
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric covered a crucial issue last night, the alarming number of American teenagers experiencing abusive relationships. This dilemma is reflected in the 600 percent increase of calls and chats to loveisrespect, National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline since 2007. The CBS news crew was able to get a first hand glimpse during their visit to loveisrespect where they observed peer advocates during staged calls and chats.
Technology has made abuse easier than ever, allowing perpetrators to employ new mediums such as cell phones, email and social networking websites to control their partners. Sheryl Cates, CEO of the National Domestic Violence Hotline and loveisrespect, weighed in on the issue during the program and stated that technology has changed the dynamics of abuse. Please visit cbsnews.com to read the full story or click here to view the entire broadcast.
This entry was posted on Friday, December 4th, 2009 pm31 3:30 pm
Categories: Hotline News
| State | Bill Description |
| Connecticut |
HB 5706 and HB 5778 Requires the State Department of Education to obtain the Safe Dates teen dating violence prevention curriculum and use it to train teachers in middle and high schools. Failed 3/23/2009. HB 6494
Requires all schools to include emotional and mental health in their
curriculum, including topics such as teen dating violence, consumer
health, physical, mental and emotional health, youth suicide
prevention, substance abuse prevention and general safety. Failed 3/23/2009. |
| Georgia | SB 217 Establishes the "Brittany Sharnay Wells Act." Strengthens current law, Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20, relating to the "Quality Basic Education Act." Provides for a curriculum on dating violence, requires the adoption of a policy against dating violence. Pending-Carryover. |
| Hawaii | HB 1672 Tasks the department of education to enact a dating violence policy and age-appropriate dating violence education to middle and high school students and dating violence prevention training to appropriate staff. Pending-Carryover. |
| Indiana | SB 396 Requires the Department of Education to develop a model policy on teen dating violence by December 1, 2010. The school curriculum on teen dating violence should include: basic principles of dating violence; warning signs of dating violence; and the school's dating violence policy. Failed-session adjourned. |
| Maryland | HB 845 Requires the State Board of Education to develop and implement in the public schools a program to educate students about dating violence; requires the program to include education on services provided to victims of dating violence; alters the definition of victim of domestic violence; requires the Governor annually to proclaim the second week in October Statewide Tween/Teen Dating Violence education and Awareness.Failed-session adjourned. |
| Massachusetts |
HB 453 States that all school districts in the Commonwealth shall implement a specific policy and discipline code to address teen dating violence in public schools. HB 455 Amends current legislation to include teen dating violence prevention in public school curriculums. |
| Montana | HB 596 Establishes the Healthy Teen Act. Among many other teen health issues, teach skills in making responsible decisions about sexuality, including how to refrain from making and how to avoid receiving unwanted verbal, physical, and sexual advances. This includes information about dating violence, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. Failed, died in committee 4/28/2009. |
| Nebraska | LB 64 Adopts the Lindsay Burke Act which passed in Rhode Island in 2007. Would require the state department of education to develop a model policy for schools to address teen dating violence through their curriculum. Indefinitely postponed. |
| New Jersey |
AB 3807 Strengthens current law; requires each school district to adopt a dating violence policy to prevent and address incidents involving dating violence. |
| New Mexico | HB 615 Requires public schools to adopt dating violence policies and to incorporate dating violence information into health education curricula in grades seven through twelve. Failed-session adjourned. |
| New York |
AB 819 Requires dating violence education and dating violence policies in school district, board of cooperative educational services and county vocational education and extension boards. SB 2537 Requires dating violence education and dating violence policies in school districts, board of cooperative educational services and county vocational education and extension boards; "dating violence" means a pattern of behavior where one person uses threats of, or actually uses, physical, sexual, verbal or emotional abuse to control his or her dating partner; requires the department, in conjunction with, to assist schools in developing a policy for dating violence incidents. |
| Ohio | HB 19 Requires school districts to adopt a dating violence policy and to include dating violence education within the health education curriculum. |
| Oklahoma |
SB 1098 As a result of state legislative findings, it requires the State Department of Education to develop a model dating violence policy and requires each district board of education to establish dating violence policies. Also requires training and creates guidelines for the training. Pending-Carryover. |
| South Carolina |
HB 3202 and SB 266 Strengthens current law on school policies by requiring department of education to develop a model dating violence policy to assist school districts in developing their own policies. The policies created are to be published in school district handbooks. The guidelines include annual dating violence training for administrators, teachers, nurses, guidance counselors, and social workers. Also requires school districts to inform parents of the policy and allows parents or legal guardians to examine all education program materials developed. The department provides final approval on all policies and establishes which policy should be taught at certain grade levels. Pending-Carryover. HB 3543 Requires the state department of education to develop a model dating violence policy to assist school districts in developing their own policies for reporting and responding to dating violence, provides what must be included in the policies, to provide reporting and publication requirements, and to require school districts to inform parents and guardians of the policy and to provide parents with a copy of the policy upon request. Pending-Carryover. |
| State | Description of Law |
| Florida | Fla. Stat. § 784.046 A victim of dating violence that has reasonable cause to believe he or she is in imminent danger of becoming the victim of another act of dating violence, or any person who has reasonable cause to believe he or she is in imminent danger of becoming the victim of an act of dating violence, or the parent or legal guardian of any minor child who is living at home and who seeks an injunction for protection against dating violence on behalf of that minor child, has standing in the circuit court to file a restraining order against the accused dating violence abuser. |
| Georgia | Ga. Code Ann. § 20-2-314 (2003 SB346) The State Board of Education is required to develop a rape prevention and personal safety education program and a program for preventing teen dating violence for grades 8 through 12. Local boards may implement such programs at any time and for any grade level local boards find appropriate, and the state board shall encourage the implementation of such programs. In addition, the state board shall make information regarding such programs available to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. |
| Illinois | Public Act No. 95-876 (2007 SB2023 and HB1330) Requires the State Board of Education to convene an Ensuring Success in School Task Force to develop policies and procedures for addressing the educational and related needs of youth who are parents, expectant parents, or victims of domestic or sexual violence to ensure their ability to stay in school, and successfully complete their education. Adds one member appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate and one member appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives to the Task Force. The Task Force will issue a final report to the General Assembly in Spring of 2009. |
| New Jersey | N.J.S.A. 18A:35-4.23 (2003 SB 487 and AB 3081) Creates the Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Education Fund and allows the board of education to teach the psychology and dynamics of teen dating violence when appropriate in elementary, middle and high school. |
| Ohio | Session Law Chapter No. 15 (2007 HB119) Requires the Franklin County Child and Family Health Services to support the Compdrug Teen Dating Violence Prevention Project. Comp Drug Inc. is an organization that offers services in prevention, intervention and treatment programs for persons with substance abuse problems and the largest provider of institutional and community based corrections programs. |
| Rhode Island | Gen.Laws 1956, § 16-85-2 (2007 SB 875 and HB6166) Establishes the Lindsay Anne Burke Act which requires the Department of Education to develop a model dating violence policy to assist school districts in developing policies for dating violence reporting and response. The model policy shall be implemented on or before April 1, 2008. Each school district's policy should include a policy for responding to incidents of dating violence and to provide dating violence education to students, parents, staff, faculty and administrators, in order to prevent dating violence and to address incidents involving dating violence. Click here to view Rhode Island Department of Education's policy on teen dating violence. |
| Tennessee | T. C. A. § 49-1-220 (2006 SB 595) This act urges the Department of Education to develop a sexual violence/teen dating violence awareness curriculum for presentation at least once in grades 7 and 8 and at least once and preferably twice in grades 9 through 12. The curriculum is intended to increase awareness of teen dating violence and sexual violence, including rape prevention strategies, resources available, etc. |
| Texas | Secretary of State Chapter No. 131 (2007 HB121) Schools are required to develop and implement a dating violence policy. The school policy should provide training for teachers and administrators and awareness education for students and parents. It should also enforce protective orders or school based alternative including counseling for affected students. The policy is also required to addressing safety planning. |
| Virginia | Va. Code Ann. § 22.1-207.1 (2007 HB 1916) Develops curriculum guidelines for teaching teen dating violence and all family life education in schools. The guidelines promote parental involvement, foster positive self concepts and provide mechanisms for coping with peer pressure and the stresses of modern living according to the students' developmental stages and abilities. The Board shall also establish requirements for appropriate training for teachers of family life education, which shall include training in instructional elements to support the various curriculum components. |
| Washington | RCWA 28A.300.185 (2005 HB 1252) Requires the state school superintendent to develop a model curriculum. The model curriculum shall include, but is not limited to, instruction on developing conflict management skills, communication skills, domestic violence and dating violence, financial responsibility, and parenting responsibility. |
http://www.cosmeticsdesign.com/Products-Markets/Date-rape-preventing-lip-gloss-debuts
Related topics: Products & Markets
A lip gloss that comes with a date rape drug testing kit has been launched in the UK with plans to make it available in vending machines in bar and club toilets.
The five 2LoveMyLips gloss products contain a drug testing kit in the form of a pink taper that can detect GHB and Ketamine.
Managing director of the company 2LoveMy, Tracy Whittaker, explained that girls on a night out with suspicions about their drink can just dab the taper in, and watch to see if the colour changes to blue.
“If they turn blue tell your friends immediately and get help from security and the police,” she explained.
Sales have already proved 'positive'
Sales of the product to UK beauty salons are positive, according to Whittaker, who is planning to launch the product in USA and Asutralia.
In addition, she said the company hopes to target tourist spots in the Far East where drink spiking is a significant problem.
Although no official figures of the numbers of people affected by the phenomenon are available, the Roofie Foundation, a UK agency set up to help victims of drug rape received 1,200 calls to their helpline in the last two years.
Significant but hard to track problem
Commenting on the lip gloss concept, Roofie Founder Graham Rhodes said: “The Roofie Foundation welcomes any product that helps women to avoid becoming victims of drug rape.”
“Over the years there have been many different tests and a wide variety of products that claim to prevent drink spiking, however we believe that the addition of a testing strip to a lip gloss is a major step forward in prevention.”
2LoveMyLips is also planning to make the product available in vending machines in pub and club toilets as this is where girls may need it most.
Other cosmetic products are also planned by the company but all of them will come with the date rape testing kit included.
Original: http://www.loveisrespect.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/are-you-being-abused.pdf
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