Description:
This culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate study uses interactive theater methodology to deliver a healthy message to seventh graders via health classes in an underserved area of Central Texas. Students (N=104) participated in 3 consecutive and 1 follow-up performance. This presentation reports on collaboration with a local theater company related to script development, and the feasibility of this approach with middle school youth. Baseline descriptive data related to attitudes toward violence, and experiences of teasing/bullying and dating violence will be reported.