Build healthy relationships to end violence
Interpersonal violence has a traumatizing impact—across the lifespan—on individuals, families, communities, and society. Oppression based on factors such as a person's age, race, gender, identities, abilities, or socioeconomic status alter these experiences. Healthy relationships foster emotional resilience and strength. Developing and broadly implementing interventions, both universal and targeted, with individual, relationship, community, and service delivery systems can bolster a range of interpersonal relationships, reduce violence more broadly, and strengthen our mental and physical health, our families, and our communities.
The Si Se Puede–Yes We Can! mural was created in collaboration with the Survivor Link program in the School of Social Work at ASU and community partner Chicanos Por La Causa. Photo courtesy of Jill Messing, MSW, PhD.
