One Love Foundation Baltimore Ravens Help Fund One Love Escalation WorkshopsWorkshop 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 fiancée in an elevator. After the incident Rice and fiancée 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.

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 Love’s 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 school’s 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

“My goal is to reach every high school in Maryland [with the program].”

~ Sharon LoveOne Love Foundation Founder

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 Chase’s relationship. When did the group start recognizing signs of abuse? What would they have done differently?

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.

The Ravens hosted a screening of Escalation at their training facility in Owings Mills, Md. Photo Source: Baltimore Sun

What’s Inside?

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#ThatsNotLoveCampaign Takes Over Twitter

University of Maryland Run for Love 5k On Oct. 10, the University of Maryland chapter of Alpha Chi Omega and Women’s 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 Omega’s 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 Women’s Lacrosse team who spoke to the runners before the race, grew up playing

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 Yeardley’s story and learn a little something about who Yeardley was, not just her story. Alpha Chi Omega and the Women’s Lacrosse Team plan to join together again next year and hope to recruit more runners and raise more money for the One Love Foundation.

Fourth Annual Race Exceeded Expectations

“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.

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One Love Spotlight: Jordyn Cohen Jordyn Cohen is one of One Love’s 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 do you like the most about working for the foundation?A: My favorite part is giving students a space to be open with something that is important and relevant to them. Sometimes young people don’t get enough credit but I get to see the intelligence, creativity, thoughtfulness, and power that young people have. Everyday One Love creates a platform for them to take the lead on this movement and it is amazing.

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 out about One Love online and saw they were hiring. I loved (and still love) the mission of the foundation and the view that this is not a women’s issue, but a human issue. I firmly believe in that and love being a part this movement.Q: How many schools are involved?A: In Maryland, One Love has engaged with 30 colleges and 27 high schools and we are having conversations with at least 5 more colleges and 7 high schools.

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 ProgramCoordinator for One Love.Photo Source: Joinonelove.com

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Remembering Yeardley

1 Million Yards for YeardleyStudents Run in Memory of Fallen Teammate

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.

Three students at the University of Virginia and Boston College wanted to spread Yeardley’s 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 women’s 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.

Yale’s lacrosse team begins their challenge to run 1 million yards for yeardley. Photo Source: Instagram

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, Yeardley’s father sustained a long battle with cancer and died in 2003. During his battle, Yeardley’s 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

trauma. Love and Huguely’s relationship was full of signs of abuse that were brought up by Love and Huguely’s friends while testifying at trial against Huguely. Relationship violence was not something Yeardley’s 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 Yeardley’s death, Sharon and Yeardley’s sister, Lexi, started the One Love Foundation not only to honor Yeardley’s legacy, but also to help educate and empower men and women and potentially help save others from suffering the same fate.