Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement
Choose Love is a proactive solution that addresses the root cause of violence to prevent it before it starts!
"Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement™ began as a school-only program, 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."
Choose Love Stops Violence Before it Escalates. Choose Love programs include Growth Mindset, Neuroscience, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Post-Traumatic Growth, Emotional Intelligence, and more for a solution that is both preventative and proactive. Choose Love is aligned with the new Character and Social Emotional Development Standards (CSED) which include BOTH Character.org and CASEL.
Jesse McCord Lewis Scholarship Fund
The Jesse McCord Lewis Scholarship Fund at the Valley Community Foundation, a designated scholarship fund, was established in 2013 by Jesse's father, Neil Heslin, in memory of Jesse McCord Lewis. It provides scholarships to graduating seniors at Shelton High School who best exhibit the spirit of compassion and love for their fellow students and their community.
Scarlett Lewis, Jesse's mom, said, "Through this scholarship, Jesse's message of Nurturing, Healing, Love will continue to blossom and grow - now, and forever."