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Frisch, a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School, is part of the Teen Advisory Project, a group of teens who've spent the last year writing, cheap airline flights to chicago directing and creating a film to highlight teen dating violence in their community. It is set to premiere Thursday. The group is working with Sarah's Inn, an Oak Park-based shelter for victims of domestic violence.
"In high school, people are so focused on finding themselves, and they usually get tied to another person in the process," Frisch said. "It's easy to get caught in a web of control where both the victim and the abuser don't realize what's happening. It's common in high school relationships."
The film is about 18 minutes, and will be shown twice on Thursday night at Oak Park s at Open Door Theatre. While tickets for the free event are disappearing quickly, Chris Ptak, teen program manager for Sarah's cheap airline flights to chicago Inn, said the goal is to have the film shown at OPRF during physical education classes next school cheap airline flights to chicago year.
"The controlling behavior isn't anything new, but unless a parent goes through every single one of their teenager's text messages, they wouldn't know who they're talking to and how often," Ptak said. "Technology has made teen dating violence harder to see."
Sarah's Inn Executive Director Regina Botterill said the teens involved in the project seem to really understand all the ways abuse can happen. The film touches on a group of students attending the prom, she said, but she wouldn t reveal more of the script.
"They explore the full range someone can use power and control cheap airline flights to chicago in a relationship," Botterill said. "The intention is to encourage discussion and examination of what you can do when you're a bystander and you find out something like this is happening."
"They could have chosen to focus more broadly or on a different topic, but they wanted cheap airline flights to chicago to focus on teen dating violence in this particular community," Ptak said. "We hear a lot about bullying, gang violence and child abuse, but teen dating violence is never talked about."
"I'm both excited and petrified to see it all come together; it was a lot of work," Frisch said with a laugh. "I just hope this reaches and benefits students – especially the younger cheap airline flights to chicago ones who haven't experienced the craziness of high school yet."