You-Are-Loved Chalk Message Project

You-Are-Loved is an annual nationwide, suicide-prevention awareness initiative that combats hateful rhetoric toward the LGBTQ community through positive chalk messages.

The Rape Recovery Team supports messages of love anyway because our hope is bound in the idea that love will overcome hate.  Our clients spend every day after their assault learning to love again, learning to trust, to heal, to piece back that which is broken...messages of love serve as the mortar for those pieces.

During the month of October, the Rape Recovery Team will be involved in several community and college events:

October 4th - University of North Florida's Women's Center's "Take Back the Night"

October 11th - University of North Florida's LGBT Resource Center's "Coming Out Day"

October 16th - Jacksonville's River City Pride Festival

At each event, RRT will host a You-Are-Loved Chalk Message Project.  For our LGBT events, those messages will be written for our sisters and brothers of the LGBTQ community, expressing love and support.  For our Sexual Violence Awareness and Survivor event, we tweak the purpose of the project a bit and invite messages for our sisters and brothers who have been raped and need our love to honor and bolster their journey.

One message of love and hope at a time, we trust that hate can be dismantled at best...overpowered at least.