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One Love Foundation

Baltimore Ravens Help Fund One Love Escalation Workshops


Workshop Aims to Empower and Educate Students
The National Football League has
had its share of domestic violence
scandals and convictions in recent
years. In February, a video appeared
of a former Baltimore Raven, Ray
Rice, punching his fiance in an
elevator. After the incident Rice and
fiance married and all charges
from the incident were dropped.
After the video surfaced, the NFL
was put under pressure to enforce
stricter punishments of player who
are accused and convicted of sexual
assault and domestic violence.

My goal is to
reach every high
school in Maryland
[with the program].
~ Sharon Love

One Love Foundation Founder


With the added pressure to combat
the domestic violence problem that
is plaguing the NFL, the Baltimore
Ravens took the first step in moving

toward a no-tolerance of domestic


violence league by donating
$400,000 to the One Love
Foundation to bring Escalation
workshops to all Maryland schools.
Sharon Love, Yeardley Loves
mother and the founder of One
Love, says, My goal is to reach every
high school in Maryland [with the
program].
The One Love Foundation
recently held an Escalation workshop
at the University of Maryland with
all student-athletes on Oct. 19.
Escalation workshop is a 40-minute
video followed by a 40-minute
guided discussion with a 10-minute
activation piece where participants
are encourage to join their schools
One Love page to stay updated.
The video portion of the
workshop is centered on Paige
and Chase, a teenage couple. They
studied together, he surprised her
with coffee and they hung out often.
Their friendship quickly turned into
a relationship that became physical,
and then physically violent. The rest
of the video is laced with signs of
violence that their friends look back
on at the end of the video. Chase
killed Paige shortly after she ended

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the relationship. The guided


discussion begins by asking the
group how it felt about the video
as a whole and then goes deeper
into the different aspects of Paige
and Chases relationship. When
did the group start recognizing
signs of abuse? What would they
have done differently?

The Ravens hosted a screening


of Escalation at their training
facility in Owings Mills, Md.
Photo Source: Baltimore Sun

Throughout the discussion, it


becomes less guided and more
of a conversation. The One
Love Foundation hopes the
video and guided discussion
will help friends and family be
more cautious of warning signs
in relationships, so they can
potentially help friends they
suspect may need it.

University of Maryland Run for Love 5k


Fourth Annual Race Exceeded Expectations

On Oct. 10, the University of


Maryland chapter of Alpha Chi
Omega and Womens Lacrosse
Team hosted their fourth annual
Run for Love 5k. The run was
held to raise money for the One
Love Foundation and awareness
for domestic violence. More than
100 students, parents and friends
competed in the 5k. Brendan
Hutton, a member of the Beta
Theta Pi Fraternity at UMD, set
the winning time of 18:37. Emily
Kift was the first female finisher,
coming in at 21:48.
Emily explained after
completing the race that
having people cheering me on
throughout the course pushed

me to run faster, I loved having


people encourage and support
me while running for such a great
cause.
According to Alpha Chi Omegas
Vice President of Finance, Jordan
Thompson, the event raised more
than $2,000, which was donated
to the One Love Foundation.
I thought the event went really
well this year, Thompson said. We
had the more runners than we
had in the past and joining with
the lacrosse team brought a new
energy to the event.
Caitlyn Phipps, an assistant
coach for the Womens Lacrosse
team who spoke to the runners
before the race, grew up playing

#ThatsNotLove

Campaign Takes Over Twitter


I love you, is a simple phrase that takes
on a different meaning in an unhealthy
relationship. I love you can escalate from
a statement of care to a statement of
control, which is why the #ThatsNotLove
campaign was started. The hashtag has
taken over twitter with users tweeting
examples of abusive statements and
actions. The campaign started on Oct. 14
with a 2-minute YouTube video that quickly
gained more than one million views in
three days. The video encouraged people
to use the hashtag to tweet examples
of abuse that are framed as loving. The
hashtag has been tweeted over a thousand
times from all over the world. The One
Love Foundation hopes that the hashtag
will continue to be used and can help the
campaign grow in popularity.

lacrosse with Yeardley.


She was the person that
always came to practice and
instantly put everyone in a
better mood, She was always
the person that you looked at
and said to yourself I want to
be like her. Phipps said. I really
enjoyed the event and I loved
that more people were able to
hear Yeardleys story and learn
a little something about who
Yeardley was, not just her story.
Alpha Chi Omega and the
Womens Lacrosse Team plan
to join together again next
year and hope to recruit more
runners and raise more money
for the One Love Foundation.

One Love Spotlight: Jordyn Cohen

Q: How did you get involved in the


One Love Foundation?
A: I have always had an interest in
relationships from a psychological
perspective. I did research on
attachment theory in college and
wanted to be a marriage counselor. I
wanted to help people in one way or
another. I was lucky enough to find
Q: What do you like the most about out about One Love online and saw
working for the foundation?
they were hiring. I loved (and still
A: My favorite part is giving
love) the mission of the foundation
students a space to be open with
and the view that this is not a
something that is important and
womens issue, but a human issue. I
relevant to them. Sometimes young firmly believe in that and love being a
people dont get enough credit
part this movement.
but I get to see the intelligence,
Q: How many schools are involved?
creativity, thoughtfulness, and
A: In Maryland, One Love has engaged
power that young people have.
with 30 colleges and 27 high schools
Everyday One Love creates a
and we are having conversations
platform for them to take the lead
with at least 5 more colleges and 7
on this movement and it is amazing. high schools.
Jordyn Cohen is one of One Loves
Program Coordinators for Campus
Campaigns. Thanks to the Baltimore
Ravens, Jordyn works with schools
throughout the entire state of
Maryland to roll out the Escalation
Workshop curriculum on campuses
and in the community.

Q: What is your broader outlook for


the One Love Foundation?
A: Although the day-to-day work
can be tiring and our goal to
end relationship violence can
feel overwhelming, seeing all
the changes that have come in
communities and on campuses
already across the country, it feels
like an more achievable goal.

Jordyn Cohen is the Program


Coordinator for One Love.
Photo Source: Joinonelove.com

1 Million Yards for Yeardley

Students Run in Memory of Fallen Teammate


Three students at the University of Virginia and
Boston College wanted to spread Yeardleys story
by running 1 million yards for Yeardley. Within 24
hours, the three students had eight teams committed
to run 1 million yards. After a week, they had 40
teams committed and within a month they had 150
men and womens lacrosse teams committed to run
1 million yards in memory of Yeardley Love. From
high school teams to College teams, they all began
running in memory of Yeardley and spreading her
story. Fittingly, University of Virginia and Boston
College were the first two teams to break 1 million
yards. Teams are still committing to run 1 million
yards. Recently, the Alpha Chi Omega chapter at
the University of Maryland, College Park created a
campus wide Facebook page to encourage runners
throughout campus to run in memory of Yeardley
and to track their yardage. The group had 250
contributors and quickly surpassed their original
goal of 1 million yards in three days and ended up
reaching 5,907,070 yards in a month.

Remembering Yeardley

With all of the support from lacrosse communities


throughout the country, the One Love Foundation has
decided to create a new app, Yards4Yeards. The new app
will allow individuals create or join a team, track their
yards and earn points that they can then redeem for One
Love merchandise or use the points to make a donation
to the foundation. The app is set to release this winter.

Yeardley Love always saw the best in everyone that she


met; she lived her life with integrity, honesty and gratitude.
Love grew up in Cockeysville, MD, with her mom and sister.
During her high school years, Yeardleys father sustained
a long battle with cancer and died in 2003. During his
battle, Yeardleys Father asked her to promise him that
she would live her life to the fullest and go after all of her
dreams. Love excelled in field hockey and lacrosse at Notre
Dame Preparatory School in Towson, MD and fulfilled her
dream of attending University of Virginia, where she played
on the nationally ranked lacrosse team. Yeardley began
dating George Huguely in 2008 for two years on and off
again, while they both played lacrosse. On May 3, 2010,
three weeks shy of graduation, Huguely beat Love at her
off-campus apartment where she died of blunt force

Yales lacrosse team begins their challenge


to run 1 million yards for yeardley.
Photo Source: Instagram

trauma. Love and Huguelys relationship was full of


signs of abuse that were brought up by Love and
Huguelys friends while testifying at trial against
Huguely. Relationship violence was not something
Yeardleys mom, Sharon Love, was concerned about
when Yeardley was at school. Sharon explained she
was always worried Yeardley would get hurt on
the lacrosse field or be involved in a car accident
but she had no idea 1-in-3 women are affected by
relationship violence. Following Yeardleys death,
Sharon and Yeardleys sister, Lexi, started the One
Love Foundation not only to honor Yeardleys
legacy, but also to help educate and empower men
and women and potentially help save others from
suffering the same fate.

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