Saturday will mark the YCC Family Crisis Center’s biannual YCC Healthy Relationships Youth Summit, set to be held at Roy High School from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Brent Hinsley, YCC community engagement coordinator, told the the Standard-Examiner the conference is centered around teens.

“It’s all about how teens can become more of a healthy person, mentally and emotionally, as well as how they can have better healthy dating relationships — but also relationships with their family, how to have better, healthy friendships,” he said. “It’s all about healthy relationships all the way around with every relationship in your life.”

While the summit will focus on more than just romantic connections, it falls during Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, recognized each February.

Hinsley said the event is conducted by YCC every February and November and is open to area youths in grades 7-12 from across the region.

“Doesn’t matter what school district they’re from, doesn’t matter part of Utah,” he said. “We’ve had students come all the way from Magna before.”

Hinsley said there are more than 100 students signed up for the conference and space isn’t limited at this time.

He said the general session will include testimonials from the YCC’s student leadership team, a youth panel and breakout sessions discussing a wide range of topics, including the differences between love and lust, cultural differences in dating, body image, consent and trafficking.

“Teenagers are dealing with this stuff now,” he said. “If we can get to these students when they’re younger and when they’re navigating relationships and trying to figure it out, we want to be able to define for them what a healthy relationship is. If they know what a healthy relationship is, they’re going to be able to recognize a bad one.”

For more information or to sign up for the YCC Healthy Relationships Youth Summit, visit https://www.yccogden.org/teen-education-and-outreach.