At Shift, we believe that all youth should experience healthy relationships because it is a key prevention strategy for domestic violence. That’s why we developed ConnectED Parents – a game-changing approach that empowers parents and caregivers of adolescents aged 10 to 20 to support healthy youth relationships and prevent adolescent dating violence.

ConnectED Parents involves:

• Using text messages to build parents’ skills to support healthy youth relationships,
• Building the capacity of parent leaders to offer peer support, and
• Working with community leaders in the places where parents naturally go to build healthy environments in these settings.

By making it easy and quick for parents to learn about supporting healthy youth relationships, and leveraging the power of community and parent leaders in the places where parents already go, ConnectED Parents builds the knowledge, skills, relationships, and environments that support parents to teach their teens about healthy dating relationships.

And between 2022 to 2025, we’ll be partnering with community based organizations, researchers, policymakers, and anti-violence advocates to test, evaluate, and scale-up our approach.

Click here to learn more about the ConnectED Parents approach and frequently asked questions.