One Love Foundation Partnering With Students To End Relationship Violence

BROOKLANDVILLE, Md. (WJZ)--This May, it will be five years since Cockeysville native Yeardley Love was murdered by her ex-boyfriend. Love was weeks away from graduating from the University of Virginia.

Now, as Jessica Kartalija reports, the foundation in her name is partnering with students to stop relationship violence.

Family and friends are keeping Yeardley Love's memory alive by teaching 11th and 12 graders about relationship violence.

"Yeardley had been beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend three weeks before graduation," said Sharon Love.

Her mother, and college roommate, speaking to boys and girls at the St. Paul's Schools about the night Yeardley was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in her Charlottesville apartment.

"If he wasn't with her, he didn't want anyone else to be with her either," Caity Whiteley said.

Students are shown a video about relationship violence.

They break into groups to discuss the video with students like Katharine Dockman leading the conversation.

"I think it's really important to start a big discussion and to get people talking about relationship violence, and to try to be proactive about it," Katharine Dockman said.

"Its good for them to be able to target us now while we are young, and able to mold us to prevent that in the future," said Allan Koikoi.

The goal is to teach young people signs to look for when it comes to relationship violence.

All you can hope for is that another mother doesn't go through the same thing.

"That's exactly why we started the one love foundation," said Sharon Love.

"It is a way for us to take this terrible tragedy--the worst thing that's ever happened in my life and Sharon's and bring something positive out of it," said Caity Whiteley.

Yeardley Love wore jersey #1 while playing lacrosse for the University of Virginia. Her family established the "One Love Foundation" to raise awareness about relationship violence.