Where is the Love?
Is a three-year project led by Lanark County Interval House designed to inspire youth to raise awareness and education about dating violence and sexual assault.
The Where is the Love? project team will hold two annual youth conferences where youth will lead and participate in interactive workshops and learning about healthy and unhealthy dating relationships.
Each fall, we will hold a youth conference for high school students from across the county to learn more about dating violence and sexual assault and, together, learn about the many ways that we can raise awareness in local high schools and communities about these serious issues. Then, in the spring, a conference will be held to showcase the students’ many exciting anti-violence initiatives.
What are the goals of this project?
- To inspire youth to raise awareness about dating violence and sexual assault in their own schools and communities
- To promote education about healthy and unhealthy relationships; to support youth in initiating their own anti-violence projects
- To help break the cycle of violence that threatens, for the most part, so many young women and girls.
How can I be involved?
Currently we are encouraging enthusiastic school staff, community members, and youth who are interested in the “Where is the Love?” project to give us a shout—we need your support in shaping this project to meet the needs of Lanark County youth! Opportunities will exist to sit on our organizing committee, to lend a hand at our youth conferences, or to just stay updated on the “Where is the Love?” news! We encourage any community member—but especially Lanark County youth—with a passion for anti-violence and a desire to make a difference to contact us.
Want to jumpstart your own school initiative? Check out our 2009-2010 Initiative Guide!
Want to learn more?! Listen to what Barb Lotan, former Project Liaison, shared live with Lake 88 here!
Upcoming Events
May 11, 2011—Join us for another amazing spring conference. This time around we welcome awesome guest speaker Michael Kaufman. Check out your guidance department to learn more now!
To learn more, e-mail: whereisthelove@lcih.com or call us at (613) 257-1115!
We will get back to you as soon as we can!
Where is the Love? has been funded through Status of Women Canada’s Women’s Program.
