Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Schools bring awareness to teen dating violence

By CHARITY SMITH

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IRONWOOD – In order to spread awareness of teen dating violence, officials with the Domestic Violence Escape shelter have placed information on tables at Bessemer, Hurley, Wakefield-Marenisco, and Mercer schools.

"We just really want to get awareness information out there in general. I don't think people realize just how big of an issue teen dating violence actually is," said Alyssa Ahonen, the Michigan children's advocate for DOVE. "It is actually very common and I don't think a lot of people realize that."

According to Ahonen, 1 of every 3 female hi...

 
 
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