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title: "Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Navigating Relationships for Teens"
date: 2023-03-08T03:00:00-05:00
author: OBOS Admin
canonical_url: "https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/hanging-out-or-hooking-up-navigating-relationships-for-teens"
section: Resources
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[Health & Sexuality Info](/health-info)# Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Navigating Relationships for Teens

This poster from Futures Without Violence shares signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships and includes national hotline resource numbers. This resource would be helpful for educators and others who work with teens and adolescents. It is free to download or you can order it (just pay shipping).

> The poster identifies aspects of both healthy and unhealthy relationships, encourages talking to a healthcare provider if the reader or someone they know has questions or is experiencing abuse. The bottom of the poster refers patients to the National Teen Dating Abuse Hotline, Suicide Prevention Hotline, Teen Runaway Hotline, and Sexual Assault Hotline for further support.

[Read the full article ](https://store.futureswithoutviolence.org/product/hanging-out-or-hooking-up-poster/)

SOURCE: Futures without Violence

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![](/assets/img/monogram.webp)Topics

- [ gender-based violence](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/gender-based-violence)
- [ intimate partner violence](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/themes/intimate-partner-violence)
- [domestic violence](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/domestic-violence)
- [intimate partner violence](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/intimate-partner-violence)
- [relationships](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/relationships)
- [recognizing abuse](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/recognizing-abuse)
- [youth](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/tags/youth)

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MB discusses how consent, communication, and boundaries as practiced in sexual relationships can also be useful in working relationships.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/my-story-setting-boundaries-and-communicating)

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## A Trauma-Informed Response To Racial Injustice

How can adults help young people discuss injustice safely and meaningfully? This resource explores trauma-informed responses to racial injustice.

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How can adults help young people discuss injustice safely and meaningfully? This resource explores trauma-informed responses to racial injustice.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/a-trauma-informed-response-to-racial-injustice)

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## Defining and Expressing Intimacy

What does intimacy look like? What do we need to be intimate with someone? What role does intimacy play in our relationships?

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What does intimacy look like? What do we need to be intimate with someone? What role does intimacy play in our relationships?](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/conversations-defining-and-expressing-intimacy)

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## Media Representations of “Ideal” Relationships

Do you see yourself reflected in the media? Do you see relationships that mirror your own? How does the representation you see affect your sense of self?

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Do you see yourself reflected in the media? Do you see relationships that mirror your own? How does the representation you see affect your sense of self?](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/stories-conversations/conversations-media-representations-of-ideal-relationships)

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## The Menstrual Cycle and Women's Health

Our menstrual cycles can tell us a lot about our overall health.

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Our menstrual cycles can tell us a lot about our overall health.](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/menstrual-cycle-womens-health)