Fresno leaders and high school students talk teen dating violence prevention

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — As teen unit consciousness period comes to a close, the Marjaree Mason Center hosted a roundtable of students and policymakers astir teen dating unit prevention.

The Marjaree Mason Center brought students and section legislators unneurotic to perceive astir firsthand stories from teens who person experienced oregon witnessed dating violence. 

Avery Means is simply a elder astatine Clovis West High School who says fearfulness is what stopped her friends from speaking up.

"They were excessively acrophobic to bring it to the school, acrophobic of what would hap to their spouse and however their spouse would react," Means said.

She says the conversations astatine the roundtable consisted of almighty conversations connected however to find solutions for teen violence.

"One of the legislators talked astir forming a ineligible radical and a ineligible radical of radical that we tin springiness entree to for each campuses, and they person entree to scope retired to them," Means said.

District 8 Assemblyman David Tangipa says educating teens astir preventing convulsive relationships tin assistance prevention a life. 

"If we're capable to marque definite that we're protecting our kids and that they cognize what a steadfast narration looks like, past we tin really accidental and halt home unit successful the future," Tangipa said.

Marjaree Mason Center Ceo Nicole Linder says section statistic amusement determination are higher rates of carnal and intersexual maltreatment among teenagers than adults.

"We truly wanted to unfastened up the conversation, conscionable with our representatives successful the community, person them perceive from the students and say, 'What is it you need? How tin we amended equip you to person steadfast relationships and support you if things spell wrong?'" Linder said.

These conversations aimed to shed airy connected the urgent request for much resources for teens facing home violence. 

For much accusation astir the Marjaree Mason Center visit their website or telephone the 24-hour situation hotline 559-233-HELP if you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is experiencing home violence.