Teen Dating Violence Month – It’s on us

February is the month of love. It is also Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. From “Jersey Shore” to MTV’s “Real World,” our young people are seriously challenged to know what a healthy dating relationship looks like. They don’t know the warning signs and there are little or no resources available to understand how potentially dangerous their situation may be. Without intervention, these relationships can result in physical and/or emotional abuse and on occasion, death, such as the tragic loss of Immokalee teens Natalia Trejo and Colby Deleon in December 2012.

Read full guest commentary in the Naples Daily News written by The Shelter Executive Director Linda Oberhaus