Whereas while dating violence, domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking affect women regardless of age, teens and young women are especially vulnerable; Whereas according to a National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), most rape and intimate partner violence is first experienced before age 25; Whereas according to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the CDC nearly 1.5 million high school students experienced physical dating violence; Whereas Public Law 113–4 , the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, includes the SMART Teen Dating Violence Act, a bill to improve the coordination and effectiveness of existing programs to address abusive youth relationships; Whereas according to the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) of the CDC, nearly 10 percent of high school students have been hit, slapped, or physically hurt by a dating partner in the past year; Whereas according to a 2014 study from the University of Illinois, 66 percent of dating youth from early to late adolescence reported various forms of dating violence, including cyber abuse, physical violence, psychological abuse, and sexual coercion; Whereas according to data from the YRBSS, almost 20 percent of teen girls, who were exposed to physical dating violence, did not attend school on one or more occasions during the past 30 days due to feeling unsafe at school or on the way to or from school; Whereas a recent Ball State University Study recent study found that 81 percent of school counselors reported that they did not have a school protocol on how to respond to an incident of teen dating violence, but 61 percent of school counselors reported that they had assisted victims of teen dating violence in the past two years