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Free info and resources to STOP Teen Dating Violence

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Wondering how to help a friend in an abusive relationship? Play our #game. Get it free: https://JAGga.me/gracesdiary

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If you only read ONE game review this year - this is it

I started off the evening playing a cute, sprite-based game that by and large played like a top-down RPG. It had some interesting mechanics and, yes, got a bit preachy. But I enjoyed playing it, it was a well put together game and I was thinking about things like music and how smooth the gameplay was while also communicating its lessons. Then the end hit. “Oh God!” I wasn’t in my content gaming space anymore. For a brief, razor-sharp moment I was confronted with a real issue in the world today: Teen Dating Violence. I’m pretty sure most of us know the stereotypical abusive relationship. The abuser attacks the victim’s physical, sexual, mental, and emotional well-being to turn them into something the abuser can control. I’m willing to bet, though, that you didn’t when you were younger. Not all the signs, anyway. But by the time they turn 14, one in three teens will have experienced some sort of this abuse within a relationship. By the time they graduate college, that number rises to nearly half. It’s a big issue. Read the full article (*SPOILERS IN ARTICLE so play the game first if at all interested - it is 100% free*) http://whatchareading.com/another-chance-and-2016-life-love-game-design-challenge/#.V0YjguRLfSy

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Game Design Challenge to educate and prevent teen dating violence

The 9th Annual Life.Love. Game Design Challenge has launched. $11,000 in prizes to game designers who can create video games about teen dating violence.

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A great article about our 2015 winning game designed to prevent teen dating violence: Another Chance.

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How video games can help keep teens safer

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQJRmQtdQrU)

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Please join us for the Summer GameJam at KSU - Marietta Campus June 26th - 28th.  Jennifer Ann's Group will be sponsoring the event and providing subject matter experts and advice.  Please gather your friends and sign up ASAP!  There will be $500 for the first place team as well as SIEGE Pro Passes.

Online registration now open: http://2015summergamejam.challengepost.com/

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Have you played “Grace’s Diary” yet? Download, play, and review it today (FREE!)

JAGga.me

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Video game The Guardian is an "Educational Eye Opener" - see for yourself & #stopTDV today: http://jenniferann.org/the-guardian.htm

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Video game contest hopes to educate teens about abusive relationships - KFOX - Breaking News, Weather, and Traffic

Coverage of the 8th annual Life.Love. Game Design Challenge. $10,000 in prizes and entries due June 1st, 2015.

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The 8th annual video game design competition to #stopTDV has launched! For rules and to register visit http://bit.ly/LifeLove2015

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Video Games Help Father, Others 9 Years after Daughter's Murder - keyetv.com Austin News, Weather, Traffic KEYE-TV Austin - News - Top Stories

Nine years after his daughters death, a father uses video games to get through the anniversary and h

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#stopTDV Teen Dating Violence affects 44% of all students by the time that they graduate from college. We are working to #stopTDV and need your help. Please share this to help increase awareness of this problem.

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"Support" Game Trailer

Check out this game trailer developed by The Support Group. "Support" is the USA winning video game from the 2014 Jennifer Ann's Group Summer Game Jam. In this one player platform game, the player's role is to find other people around the stage who will support them to progress to the next level. It's a fun easy to pick up game for all ages, and language is not a barrier as the game's mechanic and design uses no text! Be sure to subscribe to our Youtube channel to get updates on resources and healthy games for a younger audience that help prevent teen dating violence.

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WE CAN ALL HELP EACH OTHER

If we are wiling to reach out to those affected by teen dating abuse we can Kill the Silence and Stop the Violence.

So lets help each other, and lend a caring hand and an attentive ear.

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National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month February 1 - 28, 2014 Free resources for teachers, students, parents, teens!