Welcome back to New Day Northwest.
A lot of us remember the tragic death
of college lacrosse player Yardley Love.
Yardley was found beaten to death
in her apartment near campus.
Her ex-boyfriend,
later convicted in her death.
She was just three weeks shy of
graduating Yardley's legacy lives
on in the One Love Foundation and
here to tell us more about that
and an event called Move for love.
Seattle is Denise,
Balthrop Cassidy and her son Jay R Cassidy.
Thank you both for being here.
Thank
you so much for having us.
It means so much to both of
us. Thank you so much.
Absolutely this organization means
so much and I know that the one
love organization is pretty well
known on the East Coast, but it it
really isn't a common name here yet.
Why was it so important for
you to bring this here?
Well, I am very happily married to
the love of my life Barney Cassidy
and I have three wonderful children,
Bernie and Jr here,
and my daughter Rose but.
Long before that, I relationship abuse
touched my life and so my husband
and I have been looking for a long
time for an organization that was
trying to get ahead of the problem.
So in 2016, the Seahawks Women's
Association brought one love for a workshop
and I a good friend of mine invited
me to attend and after it was over,
I knew that what one love was doing
would work that we needed to get
ahead of this teach young people.
The difference between healthy
and unhealthy relationships.
And so I was all in.
I said I'll clean toilets.
I'll have you know,
breakfast meetings whatever you need,
and I've been in all in ever since.
I love you for that.
That is amazing, because this
is such an important feature and
and the biggest part of 1 love
is this preventative education.
Why is that so important for young people?
Why is it so important?
We talking about this when
they're young in high school?
Well, love is the most important
thing in our lives relationships.
I mean, what else is more important and.
It's so important for young people
to know the difference between
healthy and unhealthy relationships.
The things that I didn't know when I was
young and and So what we're trying to do
is give this education to young people.
I mean, we have Phys Ed,
we have drivers Ed we need love
Ed so we're really trying to give
young people this education before
they go into their adult life.
You know, we we they know how to do calculus.
I mean they know how to speak Spanish,
they know so many wonderful things
and they need to have this skill too.
This is a skill that is gonna go beyond.
Loving relationships too and I would
imagine relationships and work
and in every part of their life.
So this is an incredible thing
that you're doing and your son.
He is a teen Ambassador
Jr you're an ambassador.
Tell us about the role you play and what
peer to peer counseling would be. Yeah
so. And one love foundation.
I played two major roles. First.
Like you mentioned Tina Ambassador.
Generally what I do is that I go
on like one's Education Center.
I attend meetings where like I learned
information and then I bring it back to
my community in my school for example.
I called the club with two other team
ambassadors called The Love Better Club.
I'm at school where we you
know we have workshops.
We watch films,
one of education films and we sort of
bring that education to the community.
I'm also a member of the
Youth Advisory Board,
so our job there is to sort of
influence the direction of 1 love
from within the organization and
influence the new directions of
content and things like that.
And I think peer to peer education is
so important because I think it's an
authentic response to an authentic need.
It's not like a PSA where you're being.
Sat down and told what to think.
It's your peers telling you to come
together and in that space I think
people really respond to it because.
You can be open, you can be vulnerable.
You can talk about your own
life and things that are,
you know,
and relate exactly. I think I remember,
you know years ago when I would be
in a class and in the teachers would
come to and they would say this.
But when a peer to peer group happened
it is more relatable and it touches you
more deeply as a parent of teenagers.
Denise, what do you want?
Every single young person to know
about when it comes to relationships?
I want every person,
every young person to know.
The difference between healthy
and unhealthy relationships.
You know one love we have these
top 10 signs and and you know
like the the unhealthy ones are
like intensity, possessiveness,
the the healthy ones are things that
you know you all know about. Trust
I got them right here.
Oh look, she's got them.
All intensity, possession,
manipulation, isolation,
sabotage, belittling,
guilting, totality.
Volatility volatility thank you.
Betrayal and deflecting responsibility.
This is great that you hand out
these amazing cards for kids to
keep around and hopefully see
yeah and I we we have those in a basket
by our front door and we keep them
on our bathroom wall at our house.
You know it's a great use of free
time to learn the top 10 signs of the
healthy and unhealthy relationship.
Alright, we only have about 45 seconds
left and I just have to ask you about
move for love Seattle. Tell us all about
it. Oh my gosh,
we are so excited about move for love.
It's gonna be so much.
And it's a fun, family friendly 5K
walk run that's gonna be happening
at Linfield on May 21st and in
partnership with our wonderful Seattle
Seahawks who have been great sponsors
of 1 love from the very beginning.
And you can register at move for
love.org you can come and do the walk
run or just bring your family and
there's going to be face painting.
There's going to be food and we have
a very special guest who's coming
when you tell if you're in a peloton,
you might know Dennis Morton.
He's a. He's a yoga instructor.
He's a peloton instructor,
happens to be my cousin so well.
There you have it, y'all.
All my goodness. Thank you so much for
coming in for telling us about this.
For just sharing this incredibly
important thing that it's going to
not only save hearts with save lives.
Thank you so much.
Alright, once again, move for love.
Seattle is Saturday, May 21st at Lowenfield.
You can register today at joinonelove.org.
Well coming up next,
we are continuing to celebrate
Teacher Appreciation Week.
Producer Susie joining me to talk about
a very special teacher in her life.
We'll be back.
This portion of New
Day Northwest is
sponsored by One love foundation.