Welcome back to New Day Northwest.
Now that the weather is getting nicer,
it's time to get outside and get
moving for a good cause. Move for love.
Seattle is a brand new 5K walk and
run coming up in just a few weeks at
Lumen Field and to learn more about
this family friendly day of fun and
the very important cause behind it.
We are joined by Michelle Hefferon,
the executive director of 1 Love Seattle.
Thank you so much for being here.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me Ohh absolutely so.
Before we get into the event,
tell us about one.
Love. What is
it? Sure, one love is a national
nonprofit organization with the
goal of ending relationship,
abuse, and violence.
We empower young people with the
tools and resources they need to.
See the signs of healthy and
unhealthy relationships and bring
life saving tools and resources back
to their communities and teach other
people about this.
This is so, so important because I,
I don't think enough.
Attention is paid to the fact that these
relationships will start very young, 1617.
You know, even for the the victim and
the abuser who don't know what is OK.
What is not so?
How did one love start?
Yeah, one love started was started
by the family of Yardley Love who
in 2010 was beaten to death by
her ex boyfriend and this happened
just weeks before graduating
from the University of Virginia.
And it wasn't until the trial
of a young man that her family.
Really learned and understood that
there had been signs all over and her
friends were seeing in her family,
but they just didn't know what
they were and they didn't know
what to do about it. So
the key for one love is
prevention and education.
Talk to us about that. Work
well. We believe prevention is
so important because the the
stats that we've learned around
abuse are actually staggering.
With over one in three women, nearly one.
Then three men and over one and
two trans or nonbinary people will
be in an abusive relationship at
some point in their lifetime,
and those numbers increase dramatically
when we're talking about women
of color and indigenous women.
Literally just you saying that I'm
covered in chills and makes me wanna cry.
This is something that touches
probably it's touched one at
least one person in this room.
I know it's touched me, how,
how do you go about doing this work?
Where do you go? Do you?
You know, take the this education to
schools how do you disseminate the
information as what I'm trying to say?
Great question. Our information and our
education is all video based and we do work
in schools and through community based
organizations and we educate students
and young people all over the country.
In fact, we've educated over
1.8 million in the country,
and that's done through not just our staff,
because we're pretty small staff,
but with 37,000 trained facilitators
working on our behalf, that's amazing.
And here in Washington,
in the Pacific Northwest,
we've educated over 60,000 young
people through gosh 100 schools
and community based organizations,
and those numbers are growing every day.
That's amazing. So let's talk
about this really cool event that
you have coming up because I know
it's sometimes it's a heavy topic,
but you have created this event.
That's gonna be fun for everyone.
Yes, yes, thank you for asking.
We're so excited because
this is our first year.
We're hoping everyone comes in
partnership with the Seattle Seahawks
who've been awesome partners of ours.
I'm sure we are hosting a 5K run
walk at Lumen Field on May 21st
and we're hoping everyone in the
community comes not just a runner.
Talk that we hope you do that,
but it's also open to everyone and
there will be music and food and a
really family friendly festival at
the end with stationary activities,
face painting and so much more.
So we're really,
really excited and the whole
reason we want to do this is
start to elevate the importance
of relationship health education.
Build awareness around the issue so
everybody starts to care about this and
just really get out there and build.
Community together
100%, and if you're not running or walking,
you know you go out there and
share everybody on. I love it,
and this is actually on the same day
as Seattle's Day of service, right?
Yes, it is, and we are actually listed
on the city's website that you can sign
up to volunteer through that as well.
What is your favorite thing about
doing this type of work? Ohh having
been touched by the issue myself,
Umm is really getting out there and
talking to it but just getting out and
talking with you today and other people
is one of my favorite things to do.
You know COVID really shut us down.
Yeah and it was really hard for a lot
of us who were stuck in and at home.
But I'm really thrilled to be a get out.
Have an in person event and
and just raise awareness. It's
we are so so glad that we have.
You here to help raise that awareness
because this is so important,
especially with the pandemic.
We saw DVT rates going up.
So thank you so much for your time and again,
move for love is May 21st at Lumen Field.
Everyone is welcome to join.
Visit, move for love.org to Sign
up today and we'll also have
a link on New Day's website.
Go check it out.
Well, coming up after the break,
my friend Brooke is back to talk about
another incredible cause where
you can help people in Ukraine
and also buy some cool threads you
don't want to miss out on this one.
So stick around. We will be right back.
This portion of New Day Northwest
is sponsored by One love foundation.