The Relationship Tip

It’s an epidemic and now it seems the people who are directly affected by it are tackling it head on.

Kelly Bremer at IndyStar:

In response to this trend, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is investing $1 million in 11 communities nationwide as part of its national program, Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships. Indianapolis’s Clarian Health was chosen as one of the 11 sites to receive such funding.

Start Strong Indianapolis was launched last month as part of the largest national initiative ever funded to target 11- to 14-year-olds in promoting safe and healthy relationships.

Education is key as well as vigilant parental involvement.

It seems like a problem all year round but the recession seems to have kicked it up a notch.