COLUMBUS, Ind. — This year’s Turning Point Dance Marathon will go on, but in a smaller format.
Planned by local teens, this year’s event has been moved back to April, although committees organizing the event have been meeting regularly, through quarantining and eLearning.
The event is normally in February, which is observed as Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month.
With health and safety as the organizers’ top priorities, the committees are now planning a COVID-safe, revised Dance Marathon to be known as Dance Mini-thon.
Organizers said this version will include much of what past events have offered, including food, prizes, preventative education, dancing — but on a smaller scale.
To carry the momentum leading up to the actual event date, which is still to be determined, organizers have designed monthly healthy relationship-focused activities centered around this year’s theme which is “It Starts with Me.”
The goal is to spark empowerment in teens, so committee members are leading discussions and providing healthy relationship education in their high schools leading up to the culminating event in April.
