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Script for General Information Contact Email and Voicemail

Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships™ Initiative

Division of Violence Prevention

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

< Telephone Script for General Information Voicemail >

Hello. You have reached the Dating Matters Evaluation Project at NORC at the University of Chicago. This project is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Violence Prevention. No one is available to answer your call at this time but we do want to talk to you. Please leave your name and a number at which we can reach you, and please tell us the best time to reach you. While we only staff this number during Eastern Standard Time business hours, we can call you back in the evening or weekend if that is that most convenient for you. You mail also email us at <_______> if you prefer. After the beep, please clearly indicate a telephone number at a good time to reach you. Our Project Manager, Pam Loose, will assign an NORC staff person to get back in touch with you.

< Email Script for General Information >

Thank you for contacting the Dating Matters Evaluation Project at NORC at the University of Chicago. This project is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Violence Prevention.

Preventing teen dating violence means stopping it before it starts. To do this we have to make sure teens’ first dating relationships are healthy ones. CDC’s “Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Dating Relationships” initiative aims to promote respectful, nonviolent dating relationships among youth. Your child’s school has received funding to do one of two kinds of teen dating violence prevention. Your school is one of <#> schools in <city> who have received this funding. This project involves youth, parents, schools and the community.

If you have further questions, please see <web link> for more information>, or contact or <1-800-xxx-xxxx> to speak to a project staff member.

Sincerely,

Bruce G. Taylor, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, NORC Evaluation Contract

CDC’s Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships™ Initiative