LOVE: Leave Out Violence (Quebec) / Projet LOVE: Vivre Sans Violence (Québec)
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Mission Statement
LOVE supports youth to thrive through social development programs that foster healthy relationships, build emotional intelligence, and promote greater confidence and self-respect. Our participants emerge from LOVE’s programs with greater resilience and heightened awareness to be inspirational leaders.
About This Cause
LOVE (Québec) is a non-profit organization that builds innovative programs to promote the mental, emotional, and social well-being of our youth. We also provide a safe environment free from judgment or criticism to young people who have personally experienced physical and cyberbullying, domestic and/or sexual abuse, hate crimes, as well as suicide ideation and self-harm. At LOVE, youth are guided to better understand negativity in their lives and to transform their lives through constructive and creative activities. This is a liberating process that allows youth from every cultural and socio-economic background to build self-esteem, confidence and other essential characteristics to become leaders in their communities. LOVE has a proven track record in reducing violence among high-school-aged youth through media arts and leadership training programs. ***A LOVE STORY*** LOVE - Leave Out Violence is a youth violence prevention not-for-profit organization created in Montréal in 1993 by Mrs. Twinkle Rudberg, following the death of her husband who was stabbed by a fourteen-year old. Her strong belief that the young offender was himself a victim of violence led to LOVE. The organization has proven itself in the field of prevention of violence among youth, aged 13 to 19 years. LOVE intervenes to end the cycle of violence and abuse in their lives and trains young people to become leaders in violence prevention in their own environment. LOVE’s approach to the prevention of violence has been enthusiastically welcomed: schools, governments, social organizations and businesses have favoured its growth and expansion across Canada. In 20 years, the organization has established regional offices in Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver and New York. ***MISSION*** Through innovative programs, LOVE creates a secure environment for youth to express their emotions and opinions and build their self-esteem in order to become agents of change, ending the cycle of violence, one youth, one school and one community at a time. ***DEFINITION OF VIOLENCE*** At LOVE, we aim to stop violence. Violence includes (but is not limited to) bullying, domestic abuse, rape, sexual harassment, self-harm (i.e. ‘cutting’), fighting, sexual abuse, gang-related violence, substance abuse and substance-related violence, suicide and hate crimes such as racism, sexism, and homophobia. ***RESULTS*** •96% of graduates of LOVE Quebec assert that LOVE has had a positive impact on their lives. •81% say they are a different person thanks to LOVE. •80% have managed to overcome difficulties in their lives thanks to LOVE. •92%* of LOVE graduates completed high school. (the average graduation rate of the island of Montreal is only 64%). ***PROGRAMS*** Every year, LOVE teaches more than 500 young people aged 12 to 21 to end the cycle of violence in their lives. The programs bring together young people who were witnesses, victims and/or perpetrators of violence. These programs are offered in schools in which the need for prevention of violence and group intervention was deemed necessary. LOVE also features a bilingual after school program, at our offices, accessible to all young people who need our services. A youth is generally referred to a program by friends, relatives, teachers or social workers, and these people agree to provide him or her with guidance until the completion of the program. The programs are interrelated and enable young people to get to know themselves over time, and to evolve into engaged and responsible citizens.