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For Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, youth advocates at Walnut Avenue connected with Santa Cruz High School art teachers and students to collaborate on an art project around healthy relationships. Trained youth advocates presented in several virtual classrooms around the county on the topic of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
Read MoreFrom award-winning movies to popular chart-topping songs, the sentiment that “the kids are all right” has been a cliche repeated throughout generations. Teens have a perception placed on them that, because they’re young, life can’t be that bad. Just wait until you’re an adult. You have it so easy as a kid.
And yet, millions of children and teens in the United States alone experience dating violence at horrifying rates.
Read MoreWalnut Avenue, as a community-based family-focused agency, cannot claim to fight for gender justice and healthier opportunities for families without also fighting for racial justice.
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