By giving every Jewish child and teenager the chance to examine and talk openly about the dynamics of their social lives, we empower them to build healthy relationships – and prevent dating abuse. JWI offers a number of age-specific programs to build self-esteem and explore relationships through a Jewish lens:

Strong Girls, Healthy Relationships: A Conversation on Dating, Friendship & Self-Esteem is a 12-hour, 6-session program for young teen girls. This dynamic curriculum engages girls in structured discussions and activities to help them interactively explore empowerment and self-esteem in the context of relationships they build, the way they perceive themselves, and how they envision their futures.
 
Strong Girls: Friendships, Relationships and Self-Esteem is a 3-hour program that help girls strengthen self-esteem by exploring personal happiness, informing healthy choices with their own wants and needs, and creating a supportive network of friends and family to surround them throughout their lives. This program is a complement to Good Guys: Partnership & Positive Masculinity.

Good Guys: Partnership & Positive Masculinity, the complement to Strong Girls, is a 3-hour program that helps pre-teen and teenage boys explore within a Jewish context issues of masculinity, power and control, violence, self-esteem, conflict resolution, coming of age, and the importance of partnership and equality in friendships and relationships.

When Push Come to Shove…It’s No Longer Love!® is a 90-minute program to help teens, young adults and college students explore the dynamics of relationships, learn to recognize and respond to warning signs of abuse, and take steps to raise awareness and end dating abuse. The program combines interactive exercises, guided discussions, text studies, and a short film.

When the Vow Breaks is a 16-minute documentary featuring firsthand accounts from domestic violence survivors and resources for community programming that will build public awareness, encourage communities to look at how they prevent to domestic abuse, and inspire them to take steps to improve responses.