The One Love Foundation brings its healthy relationship curriculum to Palm Beach Day Academy

The One Love Foundation was excited to bring its curriculum about healthy relationship behaviors to Palm Beach Day Academy. Valentine’s Day provided the perfect opportunity to lift-up healthy relationship behaviors in the community. Academy grades 6-9 were introduced to the Couplets curriculum and will continue to have conversations throughout the spring semester.

One Love was founded in 2010 after Yeardley Love, a University of Virginia senior, was beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend just weeks before graduation. After her death, her family and friends were shocked to learn the statistics that one in three women, and one in four men, will be in an abusive relationship in their lifetime, and that young women ages 16-24 are at three times greater risk.

One Love’s work to spark a national movement only began three years ago, although this progressive vision was first seeded by Sharon Love in 2012. Sharon saw what Mothers Against Drunk Driving had done for the issue of driving under the influence by empowering bystanders to demand inebriated individuals give up their car keys. Sharon wanted to replicate this approach for relationship abuse, namely shifting the stigma from the abused to the abuser and teaching friends to intervene. Everything that Sharon envisioned spoke to treating relationship violence as a public health issue.

Today the foundation works to end relationship abuse by educating young people about the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors, and empowering them to be leaders driving a movement for change. In the last three years, One Love has engaged with hundreds of thousands of young people in communities across the country and millions more online. The goal is simple—inspire this generation to be the leaders of a movement to change the statistics around relationship abuse. For more information, visit joinonelove.org