One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love
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Mission Statement
Educating, empowering and activating young people in a movement to end relationship violence
About This Cause
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love was created in 2010 to honor the memory of Yeardley Love, a UVA senior who was beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend just weeks short of graduation. After her death, Yeardley’s family and friends were surprised to learn the statistics – that 1 in 3 women in this country will be in a violent relationship during her lifetime – and grew increasingly aware that young people in particular did not seem to realize that they, as a group, were at greatest risk. Today, One Love's goal is to end relationship violence by engaging young people in a movement for change. We develop compelling educational content that sparks new and novel discussions among workshop participants, inspiring them to work together to affect change in their communities. At every step, we empower young people as the critical leaders of this movement, uniquely suited to mobilize a generation towards a brighter future where relationship violence is far less prevalent. One Love’s first big initiative, Escalation, has been hailed as a game-changer in personalizing the issue of relationship violence and its risk. Designed to engage students more deeply and emotionally on the topic of relationship violence, Escalation is completely different from traditional classroom curriculum. One Love’s goal is to bring the Escalation workshop to as many campus communities as possible as a way of stimulating large-scale, honest conversations about relationship violence that provide critical information and guidance that are currently lacking. The more students that know about what relationship violence is and how dangerous it can be, the more likely they are to step in when they have concerns, potentially saving lives.