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Southern Nevada Senior Classes Include
Nearly 100 Students Likely to Face Partner Violence

Nevadan nonprofit Project REAL offers free workshops
to equip students to avoid those dangerous relationships.

LAS VEGAS, NV (October 20, 2026) – During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Project REAL is asking high schools throughout the state of Nevada to schedule its free relationship violence prevention workshop for seniors before the school year ends in May 2027.

The local nonprofit says schools want to help, but often struggle to see the sheer scale of the issue, making it harder to get the free workshops onto already crowded school calendars.

To make that scale impossible to miss, Project REAL created a free online tool showing how many seniors at each Nevada high school are projected to experience physical violence from a romantic partner during their lives. At most public high schools in Southern Nevada, the projection approaches or exceeds 100 students among each school’s senior class.

Visitors can search by county and school to see the projection for their own community at https://projectrealnv.org/projections2026.

Rather than treating those projections as inevitable, Project REAL’s free workshops give schools a chance to reach students long before many of those dangerous relationships begin. Over roughly 80 minutes, seniors follow a relationship that starts healthy and gradually becomes controlling and dangerous. Each student also receives Project REAL’s 200-page Adulting 101 guide, including 20 pages on relationship violence, warning signs, barriers to leaving safely and where to find help.

The strongest result comes after the workshop ends.  Across Project REAL’s available annual results since 2022, at least 75% of participating students say they plan to read the relationship violence material on their own time, without a grade, extra credit or other incentive. About 90% also report leaving better equipped to get out of a potentially dangerous relationship early or help someone they care about recognize the warning signs.

“Three out of four students tell us they plan to read 20 pages of substantive relationship violence material we give them, even though nobody is making them do it,” said Project REAL Executive Director Mike Kamer. “They leave realizing dangerous relationships are more complicated than they thought and willing to spend their own time becoming better prepared, whether for themselves or someone they care about.”

REALSafe is already delivered across Northern and Southern Nevada, but only nine Clark County high schools are currently scheduled this school year. Project REAL has the capacity to serve at least 30 CCSD schools before classes end in May.

The obstacle is not cost, capacity or even the ability to deliver the workshop on campus. It is finding room on already crowded school calendars.

Nevada lawmakers created a pathway for relationship violence education through required Government and Economics courses in 2017. Those classes, however, are also heavily used for other senior priorities, including college and military recruiting. Project REAL says some schools have found ways to make the time work, and hopes the new database gives others a clearer reason to do the same.

“When administrators and Government and Economics teams work together to make the time, we know it can happen,” Kamer said. “REALSafe is our highest scheduling priority. We’ll move other events and work around a school’s calendar to reach those seniors before they graduate.”

School-specific projections, methodology and the Adulting 101 guide are available at https://projectrealnv.org/projections2026

Teachers, administrators or parents interested in scheduling REALSafe should contact Executive Director Mike Kamer at mkamer@projectrealnv.org or 702-703-6529.

For media inquiries, contact:
Mike Kamer, Executive Director, Project REAL
mkamer@projectrealnv.org
702-703-6529

About Project REAL
Project REAL is a Nevada-based nonprofit that helps young people understand the laws that impact their lives. Since 2005, Project REAL has provided free educational experiences—including courthouse field trips, classroom visits, and learning guides—to over 250,000 students across the state. Project REAL’s mission is to give young people the knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions, strengthen their communities, and build brighter futures.