Safe Dates is a school-based program designed to prevent psychological, physical, and sexual abuse in adolescent relationships. It sets out to change typical adolescent attitudes toward gender and to give young people skills to resolve conflict. Safe Dates can be used with drug and alcohol prevention and general violence prevention programs.

The Safe Dates curriculum comprises nine 50-minute sessions, a 45-minute play to be performed by students and a poster contest. Family members are involved by means of a letter and brochure and resources regarding teen dating abuse. Teachers are encouraged to locate community domestic violence and sexual assault services.

Evaluation rests primarily on a random allocation of 14 public schools in rural North Carolina involving 1,886 students. Results showed change in the intervention group three years after students participated.

Safe Dates is a SAMHSA Model Program.