Cissner, A. B., & Ayoub, L. H.2015-01-132015-01-132014Cissner, A. B., & Ayoub, L. H. (2014). Building healthy teen relationships: An evaluation of the Fourth R Curriculum with middle school students in the Bronx. Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Justice.https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/248486.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/2076National estimates indicate that anywhere from one in ten to one in five adolescents experience physical dating violence and an even greater number experience verbal or psychological abuse.The Fourth R: Strategies for Healthy Youth Relationships is a dating violence prevention curriculum, previously shown to reduce physical dating violence among Canadian ninth-grade students. Utilizing a randomized controlled trial design, this study tests the effectiveness of the Fourth R curriculum with a younger, diverse, urban population in the Bronx, New York. A secondary quasi-experimental study seeks to examine whether the Fourth R had any school-wide benefits across the experimental schools, reaching even those students who did not directly receive the curriculum. We hypothesized that students who were exposed to the Fourth R would show improvements in the following primary and secondary target attitudes and behaviors: teen dating violence, sexual harassment/assault, peer violence/bullying, sexual activity, drug and alcohol use, perceptions of school safety, acceptance of gender stereotypes and pro-violence beliefs, and pro-social responses to violence.en-USevaluationdating violenceabuseadolescentsmiddeleschool curriculumrisk factorsprevalenceArticle