Jamison Hodges (recently wed to Lexie) with Lexie, Yeardley and Sharon after a UVA lacrosse game
About 4.8 million women are victimized by intimate partners each year that Michael and Kim Ward were truly heaven sent. In phase one of this new campaign, One Love has teamed up with Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Bloomberg School of Public Health, who have devoted over 20 years of research to relationship violence statistics and prevention.With the support and expertise of researchers at Hopkins and Bloomberg, the One Love Foundation has started to develop a longterm plan to decrease the number of relationship violence victims in the United States and abroad. Our target age group during the initial phase is 16 to 24 years old.The initiative aims to educate, empower
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and enlighten young people through a powerful public service announcement and our free and anonymous One Love DA Application, available for smart phones. The application is a danger assessment which can be used by potential victims, or friends and family of potential victims to determine if they are at risk and where to find help. I never thought in a million years that I would find myself in this position. I’d do absolutely anything not to be. But given our platform, it is our hope that everyone reading my story will join in our efforts, speak out and help us put an end to this aberrant behavior.
1 in 3 women are victims of relationship violence 1 in 5 women will experience relationship violence while in college About 4.8 million women are victimized by intimate partners each year MORE INFORMATION To download the free and anonymous One Love DA Application, visit JoinOneLove.org CONTACT JoinOneLove.org 410-825-0994
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