Emotional, physical, digital, or sexual abuse by a person to harm, threaten, intimidate, or control a dating partner. Most abuse starts out with small signals like jealousy, excessive texting, or insisting on spending every moment together. Many teens mistake this for love.
Whole-School Restorative
Approach to Building
Healthy Relationships
Equipping every school with the knowledge and tools they need to strengthen school climate, safety, and connectedness.
Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS)
Students who build healthy relationship skills have: increased academic achievement, improved mental health and wellness.
We provide a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) framework to ensure students get what they need, academically, behaviorally, socially, and emotionally. Our whole-school restorative approach builds a healthy school climate by developing positive relationships, fostering empathy, mutual respect and accountability. If things go wrong, the whole-school community is equipped to address needs and repair relationships.
Tier 1
Whole School
Administrators, Educators, Staff & Parents
Cultivate a shared language to improve the identification of unhealthy relationship behavior and allow adults to approach students in a restorative way to offer a warm handoff to a classroom or mental health support.
OUTCOMES
Build Capacity
Tier 2
Classroom
Advisory, Counseling, Career & Health Teachers
Research-backed Core Curriculum to improve student Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making.
OUTCOMES
Meaningful, Engaging, Responsible and Equitable Education
Tier 3
Mental Health
Licensed Clinicians, Para-Professionals & Behavioral Health Liaisons
Small group intervention to build capacity to identify, intervene, and respond to unhealthy relationship behavior through a restorative approach.
OUTCOMES
Valued, respected and connected to school
Our Research
Proven to increase healthy abuse-free relationship skills
40
Increase in identifying unhealthy relationship behavior
70
Retention rate of healthy relationship skills
90
Increase in students asking for help
Students who use what is lOVE tools show improvement in these key areas;
- Social-emotional strengths
- Positive classroom climate
- Communication skills
Independent Program Evaluation
The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, a graduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara which specializes in the field of education and counseling, clinical and school psychology conducted an independent evaluation of what is lOVE. Their multi-disciplinary research team included scholars and practitioners specializing in the evaluation of school and community-based programs for youth.
University California, Santa Barbara researcher, Dr. Lauren Reed, led this independent evaluation at four high schools near Santa Barbara, California. Pre- and post-program surveys were administered to students who participated in the what is lOVE curriculum and to a control group at the same schools who were waitlisted.
See what others have to say
”This curriculum changed my classroom culture and created an opportunity for my students to connect in a caring way.
Veronica GinesSanta Barbara Unified School District Health Teacher
”This approach to building healthy relationship skills works and is highly effective!
Marian ShapiroMSW
”what is lOVE is an essential partner of our multi-tiered system of support to create an inclusive, responsive, and data-informed system that ensures growth, uplifts strengths, and eliminates barriers for our students.
ShaKenya EdisonMS Educational Counseling, Assistant Superintendent Santa Barbara Unified
What is relationship abuse?
What are the consequences?
Our first love experiences are what we take with us into adulthood. Unhealthy, abusive, or violent relationships can have severe consequences on a developing teen. Youth who experience relationship abuse are more likely to:
All of which results in a compromised school climate and safety
100% of your purchase will help bring life-saving relationship education to every young person.
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