What is Dating Violence

 

Dating violence is a pattern of abusive behaviors -- usually a series of abusive behaviors over a course of time -- used to exert power and control over a dating partner.

Every relationship is different, but the things that unhealthy and abusive relationships have in common are issues of power and control. Violent words and actions are tools an abusive partner uses to gain and maintain power and control over their partner. 

 

Any person can experience dating abuse or unhealthy relationship behaviors, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic standing, ethnicity, religion or culture. It does not discriminate and can happen to anyone in any relationship, whether it’s one that is casual and short-term or serious and monogamous.

 

Dating Violence Resources

• Wyoming Division of Victim Services 

• Wyoming Center for Legal Aid

• Wyoming Health Council

• Strong Families Strong Wyoming 

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• Alianza:  National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence 

• Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence

• Battered Women’s Justice Project and Civil Justice Center

• Break the Cycle 

• Casa de Esperanza

• Center for Healthy Teen Relationships

• Forge

• Futures Without Violence

• Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community

• Love is Respect

• Mending the Sacred Hoop

• National Center for Victims of Crime

• National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence

• National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health

• National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women

• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

• National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs

• National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

• National Domestic Violence Hotline

• National Family Justice Center Alliance

• National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

• National Network to End Domestic Violence

• National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

• No More

• Polaris Project

• VAWnet: National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women