The Healthy Relationships for Youth program aims to shift the culture of gender-based violence

Mainstreet Halifax

After yet another tragic incident of gender-based, intimate-partner violence - experts remind us that violent relationships rarely start out that way. We take a look at one program from the Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre and Sexual Assault Services Association, called the Healthy Relationships for Youth program. It hopes to shift the culture by helping young people teach their peers to recognize the signs of an unhealthy relationship and to how get out before it leads to violence. Moraig MacGillivray is the operations manager of the association. She spoke with host, Jeff Douglas, about this initiative.