Teen Dating Violence
Friday, September 24, 2010
The Stokes Conference Center
at the Boys Hope Girls Hope National Office
12120 Bridgeton Square Dr., Bridgeton, MO 63044 - (314) 298-1250

This interactive workshop on Teen Dating Violence targets professionals who are interested in addressing the issue of teen dating violence and abuse in their communities and schools. Upon completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
• Recognize warning signs and characteristics of abusive relationships;
• Identify ways to interrupt these behaviors among teenagers;
• Assess and confront dangerous gender roles that contribute to abusive relationships;
• Identify specific intervention tools and strategies that professionals and parents can use when teenagers are experiencing these relationships;
• Increase awareness of available resources in the St. Louis area pertaining to dating violence and sexual assault; and
• Connect teenagers, professionals, and communities with these resources for continuing education.

Schedule of Events:
8:30-9:00am - Walk-in Registration and Networking
9:00am-noon - Workshop

The facilitators of this informative workshop are Carrie Marsh, BA, and Kelly Schneider, LCSW.

Carrie Marsh, BA
Carrie Marsh is a St. Louis local who received a degree in HIV prevention, education and social work from Hampshire College. For the past seven years, her work has focused on preventing the spread of HIV and relationship violence through education and advocacy. Her passion and focus has always been the connection between gender roles (specifically masculinity) and harmful relationships among teenagers. Through her work with Project H.A.R.T. and Safe Connections, Marsh has traveled all over St. Louis to various middle schools, high schools, group homes, alternative sites and juvenile detention centers, presenting healthy relationships, teen dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, family violence and bystander interventions. Her passion is to prevent and educate in order to stop the cycle of violence. Since 2007, Marsh has been a member of the Teen Dating Violence Coalition in St. Louis. Project H.A.R.T. has teamed up with RAVEN (a local batterer intervention program) and the YWCA Sexual Assault Center. These three organizations have presented on the topic of teen dating violence to students, parents, teachers and administrators in order to help schools and families more effectively prevent teenagers from being abused.

Kelly Schneider, LCSW
Kelly Schneider has worked at the Bridgeway Sexual Assault Center since 2006. Schneider is a sexual assault counselor and is in charge of prevention services. She facilitates the C.H.A.M.P.P. Program, a date rape prevention program, in several high schools in St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren Counties. Schneider is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who earned her master’s degree in social work from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and her bachelor’s degree in science in social work from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She also has a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies. She began her work towards ending violence against women in 2000. Her experience in this field includes working in shelters for abused women and children, answering domestic violence hotlines, and advocating for battered women within the court system. She is a member of the Teen Dating Violence Coalition of St. Louis.