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CURRICULUM ACCOMPLISHMENTS SINCE 1992:
- In 1997, the In Touch With Teens curriculum was selected as one of five model youth-violence
prevention programs in the United States (and the only such program from California) by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. - In 1999, the curriculum was selected as the relationship-violence curriculum for the Life Skills for the
21st Century curriculum of the Los Angeles Unified School District. -
In 2002 ITWT was chosen by The UCLA National Center of Excellence (COE) in Women’s Health as
the program to implement for their contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office on Women’s Health for adolescent negotiation skill building. - The UCLA CoE again chose ITWT when they received funding from U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services Office on Women’s Health in 2004 to conduct a national study of the effects on the
facilitators of implementation of an adolescent teen violence prevention program. - In an impact evaluation conducted by Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, a project
of the Injury and Violence Prevention Program of the Los Angeles County Department of Health
Services, 68% (n=50) of ranked question responses showed change in knowledge and attitude in the
desired direction with another 56% of those reaching statistical significance. Overall, evaluation results
demonstrated that the curriculum was successful in achieving the goals of providing adolescents with
the requisite information, increasing their knowledge base in relation to relationship violence and
promotion of attitudinal change deemed to be necessary for violence prevention in this population.