HEalthy Relationships Day

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HEalthy Relationships Day

• Healthy Choices Week
• December 2, 2010

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What is Healthy Choices Week?

• Every year after Thanksgiving break, Memphis City
  Schools hosts a week dedicated to student health.
  
• Healthy Choices Week includes the following days
• November 29th Healthy Neighborhoods Day
• November 30th Drug Free Day
• December 1st World AIDS Day
• December 2nd Healthy Relationships Day
• December 3rd Healthy Weight Day

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What are healthy relationships?

• Relationships are
• how we interact with our friends, family, and
  dating partners.
• A relationship that is healthy
• is one where everyone feels safe and respected.
• is one where other parts of our health (diet,
  exercise, sleep, etc) are affected in a positive
  way.

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What is an unhealthy relationship?

• An unhealthy relationship
• might make us want to avoid people, places, and
  situations.
• might make us not eat right, not exercise
  enough, not sleep enough, and not do well in
  school.

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In 2009, Memphis students were asked about their
relationships.

• An in-school survey was given to Memphis students
  in 2009. In it, students wrote about
• Fighting at school
• Weapons at school
• Sexual intercourse
• Fighting with dating partners
• How drug use affected dating

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Fighting at school

• 1 out of 5 high school students has been in a
  physical fight.
• What does this mean to me?
• Why is this unhealthy?
• Remember, unhealthy things might make us want
  to avoid people, places, or situations and might
  make us not eat right, exercise, sleep well, or
  do well in school.
• What can I do to change this?

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Weapons at school

• 1 out of 50 high school students has brought a
  weapon to school.
• 1 out of 11 students has been threatened or
  injured with a weapon.
• What does this mean to me?
• Why is this unhealthy?
• Remember, unhealthy things might make us want
  to avoid people, places, or situations and might
  make us not eat right, exercise, sleep well, or
  do well in school.
• What can I do to change this?

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Teens and sex

• 1 out of 3 high school students have had sexual
  intercourse.
• What does this mean to me?
• Why is this unhealthy?
• Remember, unhealthy things might make us want
  to avoid people, places, or situations and might
  make us not eat right, exercise, sleep well, or
  do well in school.
• What can I do to change this?

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Dating violence at school

• 3 out of 25 high school students were hit,
  slapped, or physically hurt on purpose by their
  boyfriend or girlfriend.
• What does this mean to me?
• Why is this unhealthy?
• Remember, unhealthy things might make us want
  to avoid people, places, or situations and might
  make us not eat right, exercise, sleep well, or
  do well in school.
• What can I do to change this?

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Drugs and dating

• 3 out of 25 sexually-active high school students
  drank alcohol or used drugs before the last time
  they had sex.
• What does this mean to me?
• Why is this unhealthy?
• Remember, unhealthy things might make us want
  to avoid people, places, or situations and might
  make us not eat right, exercise, sleep well, or
  do well in school.
• What can I do to change this?