The Love Is Not Abuse Curriculum is a step-by step guide to teaching high school students about the issue of dating violence. Using literature and poetry, this program provides teachers with the tools to teach about this sensitive subject and is intended to be taught in either Health or English/Language Arts classes.
Our goals are to distribute this curriculum across all U.S. states and territories and educate as many teenagers on this issue as possible. schools on a national basis. With the help of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, Inc. (FCCLA), a nonprofit national career and technical student organization for young men and women in family and consumer sciences education in public and private school through grade 12, and other partners, nearly 1,000 schools across 48 states and the District of Columbia will have taught the curriculum by February 2007.
In February 2007, Liz Claiborne Inc. updated the curriculum to include information about loveisrespect.org, The National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline. If you need help or would like to learn more about the issue of teen dating abuse please call the Helpline at 866-331-9474 or log on to the interactive Web site, loveisrespect.org.