LCare Partners with One Love Escalation Foundation
September 28, 2018 | Beyond the Buzzer
One Love Escalation Workshop held at Thorntons Academic Center of Excellence
Earlier this week, the University of Louisville's Athletic Department partnered with the One Love Escalation Foundation for the fourth year in a row. Ninety spring and winter sport sophomore student-athletes gathered at the Thorntons Academic Center of Excellence for a workshop designed to raise awareness, educate about domestic relationship issues, and learn prevention methods to better their experience with significant others.
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One Love Escalation Foundation was created in 2010 after the death of University of Virginia Lacrosse student-athlete, Yeardley Love. She was a victim of violence within her relationship and was murdered by her ex-boyfriend weeks before her college graduation.
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Young people around the world get assistance from One Love to raise awareness about the cautionary signs of abuse and trigger communities. The Escalation workshop taught student-athletes the dangers of relationship abuse and debated both unhealthy and healthy relationships. Created by the One Love Foundation, the workshop helped University of Louisville student-athletes to identify warning signs and be mindful of abusive signs. Additionally, it gave students tools to defuse a possibly dangerous condition in a relationship.
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The Escalation Workshop is part the LCARE program. LCARE, housed within Athletics Academics, focuses on the Life, Leadership & Career Development of UofL student-athletes. The workshop begins with a brief introduction of what the One Love Foundation is and the goal of the Escalation Workshop. The student-athletes observed a 40-minute film portraying a relationship between a college-aged couple that had obvious signs of verbal, emotional and physical abuse. After the video, the sophomores split into assemblies to participate in helped small-group debates. Fellow student-athletes, athletic administrators, coaches, and university personnel worked as facilitators.
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One of the athletics staff members, Marc Ellis, Director of the Thorntons Academic Center of Excellence, was thrilled for the chance to give back.
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"After being involved with one love, I noticed some of the signs of unhealthy relationships shown in the film in my experiences in college with some of my friends and teammates," said Ellis. "Had I known what to say or what to do to prevent some of the events that transpired back then, maybe things may have been different. I give back because I cannot go back."
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The workshop will be conducted again in the spring semester for the fall sophomores. For more information on the One Love Foundation click here. To keep up with what UofL student-athletes are doing in the community, follow us on twitter @LouisvilleLCARE and @ULSADevelopment.
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One Love Escalation Foundation was created in 2010 after the death of University of Virginia Lacrosse student-athlete, Yeardley Love. She was a victim of violence within her relationship and was murdered by her ex-boyfriend weeks before her college graduation.
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Young people around the world get assistance from One Love to raise awareness about the cautionary signs of abuse and trigger communities. The Escalation workshop taught student-athletes the dangers of relationship abuse and debated both unhealthy and healthy relationships. Created by the One Love Foundation, the workshop helped University of Louisville student-athletes to identify warning signs and be mindful of abusive signs. Additionally, it gave students tools to defuse a possibly dangerous condition in a relationship.
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The Escalation Workshop is part the LCARE program. LCARE, housed within Athletics Academics, focuses on the Life, Leadership & Career Development of UofL student-athletes. The workshop begins with a brief introduction of what the One Love Foundation is and the goal of the Escalation Workshop. The student-athletes observed a 40-minute film portraying a relationship between a college-aged couple that had obvious signs of verbal, emotional and physical abuse. After the video, the sophomores split into assemblies to participate in helped small-group debates. Fellow student-athletes, athletic administrators, coaches, and university personnel worked as facilitators.
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One of the athletics staff members, Marc Ellis, Director of the Thorntons Academic Center of Excellence, was thrilled for the chance to give back.
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"After being involved with one love, I noticed some of the signs of unhealthy relationships shown in the film in my experiences in college with some of my friends and teammates," said Ellis. "Had I known what to say or what to do to prevent some of the events that transpired back then, maybe things may have been different. I give back because I cannot go back."
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The workshop will be conducted again in the spring semester for the fall sophomores. For more information on the One Love Foundation click here. To keep up with what UofL student-athletes are doing in the community, follow us on twitter @LouisvilleLCARE and @ULSADevelopment.
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