Hanging out or Hooking Up? Pocket Guide

The pocket-sized safety guide challenges all teens to consider how their boyfriend/girlfriend treats them, to identify dynamics of healthy relationships and signs that may indicate abuse. The card also explores how to confront excessive text messaging and discusses the difference between consensual versus pressured sex including its impact on one’s ability to use birth control. Tips are provided to help support a friend who may be facing relationship abuse. The card is written in gender-neutral terms and may be used by females, or males in either heterosexual or LGTBQ relationships. The card lists national toll-free hotlines for support specific to dating abuse, suicide prevention, teen runaway, rape, incest and abuse. Other languages and titles are also available through Futures Without Violence’s online store.