Ariauna and Juniper talk healthy relationships and bullying

Produced at a Love Notes camp in the Best Buy Teen Tech Center.   Love Notes engages teens in conversations about areas of life that impact relationships, such as personality styles, expectations, communication, consent, and dating violence.   

For more information about Love Notes, visit ymcalouisville.org/programs/youth-teens/love-notes   

Love Notes is a grant-funded program offered to teens and young adults in our community. Love Notes is supported by Grant Number TP1AH000264 from the HHS Office of Population Affairs.  

Contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Department of Health and Human Services or the Office of Population Affairs.

Keheir and Camron discuss the impacts of social media on relationships. 

In this episode the Community Advisory Committee chatted about what adults can do to support open honest communication with the young people in their lives. 

Kelley Luckett, the director of the Love Notes program at the YMCA, and Freddie Brown, V.P. of Diversity, Inclusion, Global Perspective and District Executive Director, discuss the why the YMCA chose Love Notes and the impact it is making in the lives of young people. 

Also mentioned in the episode is the Resilience documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YZ2rn5R2M)

A conversation with peer and young adult facilitators of Love Notes. What was it like going through Love Notes as a Young Adult, and what is it like spreading the messages of Love Notes. Eltuan, Daiya, Jeremy, Taylor, and Tyler discuss the impacts of Love Notes. 

Emmanuel and Jada chat about why genuine love is hard to find. They discuss everything from social media to being your genuine self. 

Keheir, Keely, and Eric discuss different aspects of Love Notes including red flags, the love chemicals, and attraction. 

The Love Chemicals:

Isaiah and Jeremy discuss how skills used on the football field translate to relationship skills, and the skills learned in Love Notes! 

Recorded during Fall Break Camp 2022

July Love Notes youth talk about toxic relationships. 

Leah and Jeremy sit down and discuss pacing relationships through the Love Note lens of the relationship pyramid. 

Recorded during the July Teen Vibe Camp.