Causes: Children & Youth, Education, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Literacy, Youth Development Programs
Mission: The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement (JLCLM) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization with a commitment to reach students, educators and individuals, nationally and internationally, and provide them with a simple, yet profound formula for choosing love. Before six-year-old Jesse Lewis was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14,2012, he wrote a message on his family's kitchen chalkboard: "Nurturing Healing Love". The words “nurturing" and “healing" are a part of the definition of compassion across almost all cultures and being loved is a basic human need. Inspired by Jesse's words, his mother Scarlett Lewis founded the organization in order to share his message that we can choose love over anger, gratitude over entitlement, empathy over hate, and forgiveness and compassion over bitterness. Choose Love's goal is to create a more peaceful and loving world through planting these seeds of wisdom and teaching others how to choose love.
Results: Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement™ began as a no cost program for schools but has organically expanded into programs for home, for work, and for community. We’re seeing sports teams use Choose Love programs to teach leadership. We’re seeing prisons use it for restoration. Even military families are using it to ease anxiety and strengthen relationships. Since 2013, we have been on a mission to create safer schools and a safer world by teaching people how to use nurturing, healing love in any circumstance. Practicing social and emotional learning skills improves culture and cultivates an environment that is welcoming, supportive, compassionate, and safe. The family of Choose Love programs have been accessed in all 50 states and 100 countries, reaching more than 1.9 million children as of 2020.
Target demographics: Students, young people, adults, educators, and communities.
Direct beneficiaries per year: more than 1 million children!
Geographic areas served: International!
Programs: The Choose Love Movement’s signature program is available as a no cost Infant-Toddler, and Pre-K through 12th grade, Lifespan, Character Development, next generation Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) program that teaches educators and their students how to choose love in any circumstance and helps them become connected, resilient, and empowered individuals.
Mission: The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement (JLCLM) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization with a commitment to reach students, educators and individuals, nationally and internationally, and provide them with a simple, yet profound formula for choosing love. Before six-year-old Jesse Lewis was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14,2012, he wrote a message on his family's kitchen chalkboard: "Nurturing Healing Love". The words “nurturing" and “healing" are a part of the definition of compassion across almost all cultures and being loved is a basic human need. Inspired by Jesse's words, his mother Scarlett Lewis founded the organization in order to share his message that we can choose love over anger, gratitude over entitlement, empathy over hate, and forgiveness and compassion over bitterness. Choose Love's goal is to create a more peaceful and loving world through planting these seeds of wisdom and teaching others how to choose love.
Results: Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement™ began as a no cost program for schools but has organically expanded into programs for home, for work, and for community. We’re seeing sports teams use Choose Love programs to teach leadership. We’re seeing prisons use it for restoration. Even military families are using it to ease anxiety and strengthen relationships. Since 2013, we have been on a mission to create safer schools and a safer world by teaching people how to use nurturing, healing love in any circumstance. Practicing social and emotional learning skills improves culture and cultivates an environment that is welcoming, supportive, compassionate, and safe. The family of Choose Love programs have been accessed in all 50 states and 100 countries, reaching more than 1.9 million children as of 2020.
Target demographics: Students, young people, adults, educators, and communities.
Direct beneficiaries per year: more than 1 million children!
Geographic areas served: International!
Programs: The Choose Love Movement’s signature program is available as a no cost Infant-Toddler, and Pre-K through 12th grade, Lifespan, Character Development, next generation Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) program that teaches educators and their students how to choose love in any circumstance and helps them become connected, resilient, and empowered individuals.
info@Jesselewischooselove.org
PO Box 605, Newtown, CT 06470
Children & Youth
Newtown
