Intimate Partner Violence Prevention
is a non-profit organization founded in 2010 in memory of Yeardley Love, a senior at University of Virginia who was beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend on May 3, 2010. After this tragic incident, Yeardley Love鈥檚 mother, Sharon Love, founded One Love to help educate as many young people as possible about the warning signs of relationship abuse as well as to encourage others to be active bystanders when they witness signs of abuse, including highlighting the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors. One Love aims to educate, empower and activate young people in a movement for change in their communities surrounding relationship violence.
A note about the workshops:聽Though facilitators strive to ensure that all OneLove workshops are an overall empowering experience, by the nature of the subject matter, some students have found the videos and subsequent discussions to be heavy and/or triggering. Facilitators will have a list of campus resources to hand out at the conclusion of each workshop and will make themselves available to support participants once the workshop concludes. However, we ask that all interested groups keep the workshop content in mind when considering bringing OneLove to their members.
One Love at Boston College聽
One Love has developed the "Escalation" workshop to help educate young people about relationship violence and facilitate a dialogue about the warning signs of abuse. Through a recent partnership between One Love and the 亚色影库 Women鈥檚 Center, we are excited to bring this empowering and educational workshop to Boston College and provide our community members with this vital information about a growing problem on college campuses.
The Workshops
Escalation
鈥淓scalation鈥� is a 90-120 minute workshop facilitated by two Boston College community members who have been trained by One Love and supported by the Women鈥檚 Center.
The first portion of the training is the screening of a 40-minute film that depicts the trajectory of an abusive college relationship from beginning to end.聽Following the video, the facilitators will lead the participants in a discussion surrounding the warning signs depicted in the film, as well as ways to intervene as bystanders if they suspect friends or loved ones might be in an abusive relationship.聽
The workshop ends with a discussion of how to spot healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors, as well as how the Boston College community can address the issue of intimate partner violence on our campus.