Bravo Group Recognizes National Dating Violence Awareness

By BRAVO group

Students from O'Neill High an O'NeiII St. Mary's put information on cars at the 0'Neill High, School parking lot.

The BRAVO group is recognizing this week at National Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week. The teens have been busy with awareness activities around town. On Monday, the students tied purple ribbons on cars at both schools, put information under windshield wipers, talked on the KBRX Morning Show, and. painted business windows downtown with awareness messages. On Friday, the teens will be downtown to tie ribbons on cars and hand out information to the community.

The BRAVO, group polled 265 high school students last week at O'Neill Public and St. Mary's High Schools on dating violence and sexual harassment. Below are the results:

97% of O'Neill teens know what it means to be sexually harassed, 3 % do not. 11% of O'Neill teens had someone they would consider a friend sexually harass them.

16% of O'Neill teens have been sexually harassed. 9% who were sexually harassed told someone about it, while 8% who were sexually harassed told no one.

85% of O'Neill teens know where to go for help if they are sexually harassed or in an abusive relationship.

9% of O'Neill teens have been in a dating violence relationship, while 91% have not. 43% of O'Neill teens know someone who has been in an abusive relationship.

27% of O'Neill teens think dating violence is a problem in their schools. Next week's article will feature an interview with a dating violence survivor from Oklahoma, who is speaking nationally on her experience. For more information on BRAVO, please contact Gina Clyde at Bright Horizons at 336-1774.