loveisrespect Blog

Jennifer Ann’s Group recently named the winners in it’s 2008 Life. Love. Game Design Challenge. Please check out these games, designed to help prevent dating abuse - they’re the first we’ve ever seen.

Jennifer Ann’s Group is an organization started by Drew Crecente in honor of his daughter, Jennifer. Jennifer was murdered by her ex-boyfriend on February 15, 2006. 

Our newest batch of interns start today. Interns will continue the huge task of collecting teen friendly resources for the states of Texas and California. It’s an overwhelming and necessary job, and we’re really lucky to have found four new interns ready to take on the challenge. Their projects will help us better help our callers/chatters by connecting them with local resources that can really help. Plus - all of our interns are trained Peer Advocates - they’ll take calls and chats too.

Unfortunately, two teenagers on their way to their prom in Chester, CA were killed by an ex-boyfriend of the female victim. More information on the story can be found here.

Yesterday, students from local Westlake High School held a press conference in the helpline room to talk about prom, teen dating abuse, and the fundraiser they hosted in benefit of the helpline earlier this spring.

On March 29th, students from the clubs GET MAD (Girls Engaged to Make a Difference) and GENTS (Guys Exhibiting Needed Traits in Society) hosted A Day to Shine, a fundraiser centered around a fashion show featuring prom wear. The fasion show was followed by speaker, Jaslene Gonzalez, from American’s Next Top Model.

This morning we found out that loveisrespect.org is the Webby Award Winner in the category of Activism. We’re so excited that our website and live chat advocacy was recognized. We’re still working to improve our site and fill it with useful content and we’re always open to suggestions. Leave a comment or send us an email if you have any input.

Check out the the Webby Awards website for a full list of winners. Thanks to all who took the time to vote for us in the People’s Voice awards - and congratulations to Invisible Children for picking up that honor.

loveisrespect is building a reading list, and we could use your help. If you’ve seen or read books that deal with dating abuse (fiction or non-fiction), please let us know. You can comment here or contact us through www.loveisrespect.org. No book report required (but we won’t turn them away either).