Category: For faith leaders

November 15, 2011

Sign-up available for Jan. 22-23 TREE training workshop

Workshop: A Faith-Based Response to Healthy Relationships. Teen Relationship Education and Empowerment (TREE) will sponsor a workshop for religious communities on Sunday and Monday, Jan. 22 & 23, 2011, at First Baptist Church in Columbia. The workshop is open to all ...

April 27, 2010

Making a TREE Team Plan: Brainstorming and Suggestions

What is our congregational story about why these issues are important to us to address through TREE participation? Whom do we want to tell this story to in our church community? When can we meet again as a TREE team? Whom ...

April 27, 2010

Resources from the CDC

The CDC's 2009 Teen Dating Violence Fact Sheet reports: 72% of 8th and 9th graders reportedly "date." 1 in 4 adolescents report verbal, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse from a dating partner each year. About 10% of students nationwide report being physically hurt ...

April 27, 2010

TREE Lending Library Resources

Hours Wednesdays 2-5 p.m., 6:30-8:30 p.m., and by appointment Location The Communications Center, Inc. 1905 Cherry Hill Drive, Suite 200 Columbia, MO 65203 Video/DVD Curriculum Love - All That and More (2001). A six-session curriculum and three-video/DVD series on healthy relationships for youth and young ...

April 27, 2010

10 Things Men Can Do to Prevent Gender Violence

Approach gender violence as a men's issue involving men of all ages and socioeconomic, racial and ethnic backgrounds. View men not only as perpetrators or possible offenders but as empowered bystanders who can confront abusive peers. If a brother, friend, classmate ...