Runaway and homeless youth agencies and domestic and sexual violence service providers share a mutual goal: enhancing the safety and healing of young people in living situations and relationships marked by violence and abuse. Recognizing and understanding the intersection of runaway and homeless youth and intimate partner violence (including dating, domestic and sexual violence) is critical to creating meaningful services and effective intervention and prevention strategies for both homelessness and relationship abuse, and in creating partnerships between the programs working with youth at risk. (Authors)