Presidential Document2023-02432
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, 2023
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February 3, 2023
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January 31, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 23 (Friday, February 3, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02432]
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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 23 / Friday, February 3, 2023 /
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Proclamation 10519 of January 31, 2023
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and
Prevention Month, 2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Across America, young people are impacted by abusive
relationships, suffering in silence as they are
threatened with or subjected to physical violence,
sexual violence, psychological aggression, or stalking
from a current or former intimate partner. During
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention
Month, we bring this scourge out of the shadows,
recommit to promoting healthy relationships, and join
together with a clear message to survivors: You are not
alone. Support is close by, and justice is within
reach.
Each year, around 12 percent of American high schoolers
experience physical or sexual violence at the hands of
an intimate partner. Young women, transgender teens,
and gender nonconforming youth are disproportionately
affected. Dating violence can also occur on social
media, online, and through other electronic
communication in the form of cyberstalking, non-
consensual distribution of intimate images, and other
technology-facilitated harms. This trauma not only
affects survivors' health, safety, and aspirations as
teenagers--it can also follow them into adulthood and
increase the risk of violence in future relationships.
When we teach teens about healthy, nonviolent
relationships, we support their development and create
safer, healthier communities for everyone. That is why
my Administration is advancing efforts by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention to provide training
for educators, families, and community members to teach
young people how to form healthy relationships and
leave abusive ones. These tools can be found at
<a href="http://VetoViolence.CDC.gov">VetoViolence.CDC.gov</a>. My Task Force to Address Online
Harassment and Abuse is also committed to addressing
ways that technology can be used to cause harm,
including as a form of dating violence among young
people. Additionally, in 2022 I worked with the
Congress to reauthorize and strengthen the Violence
Against Women Act, including enhancing grant programs
and increasing funding for non-profit organizations,
Tribes, and local governments that are working to
reduce and address teen dating violence.
By recognizing the signs of dating and domestic
violence, setting positive examples of healthy
relationships that lift up instead of tear down, and
making clear that abuses of power are never acceptable,
we can build a culture where respect is the norm,
dignity is the rule, and safety is the expectation--
both online and offline. We can measure up to the
standards of equality, opportunity, and justice that
define our Nation at its best.
If you or someone you know is involved in an abusive
relationship of any kind, immediate and confidential
support is available through the National Domestic
Violence Hotline's project focused on supporting young
people by visiting <a href="http://loveisrespect.org">loveisrespect.org</a>, calling 1-866-
331-9474 (TTY: 1-800-787-3224), or texting ``LOVEIS''
to 22522.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2023
as
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National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention
Month. I call upon everyone to educate themselves and
others about teen dating violence so that together we
can stop it.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.
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