1. Promoting Healthy Relationships:
A Community Health Promotions Program
Emmanuel Mensah
Elaine Hewins, CSW, DVS
To provide education and information
to adolescents and young adults
about healthy, unhealthy, and
abusive relationships and how to
seek help.
• Adolescents and young adults are
more likely to experience dating
violence due to their lack
of education and information on
what constitutes a healthy, normal
relationship .
• 1 in 3 adolescent girls in the United
States is a victim of physical,
emotional or verbal abuse from a
dating partner .
• It is important for young adults to
know the warning signs of an
unhealthy/abusive relationship.
Reference:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S6H632nNlvojjx4yBLLGhqpJ
knB_ySaMSbPSyH2pqMU/edit?usp=sharing
A special thanks to;
•The director of the RWJ CHPP, Mariam
Merced
•The DomesticViolence Education &
Awareness Program Coordinator at the
CHPP, Elaine Hewins
•Rutgers Professor Ann Marie Hill, and
coordinatorTamara Swedberg
for the opportunity to work on this
project.
Participants who had prior training
on Dating/DomesticViolence.
Purpose
Significance
Methodology
Outcomes
Evaluation
Acknowledgements
Prior
Training
26%
No Prior
Training
74%
1
•PreTest/Survey
2
•Presentation
3 •Discussions/Q & A
4 •PostTest/Survey
There were a total of 36 participants
 74% of the participants had never
received training or attended a
workshop on healthy, unhealthy or
abusive relationship.
 97% of the participants reported
learning about what constitutes a
healthy, unhealthy and abusive
relationship.
 97% of the participants reported
that they would recommend the
program to others, the other 3%
answered “undecided”.
36
35 35 35
Total number of participants
Number of participants who
reported learning about what
constitutes a healthy relationship.
Number of participants who
reported learning about what
constitutes a unhealthy and abusive
relationship
Number of the participants who
reported that they would
recommend the program to others.
Participants Feedback