What’s Your Love Score?
Love is not just an emotion — it is a skill that can be nurtured and practiced. Research shows that cultivating love fosters empathy, reduces violence, and strengthens relationships. Choosing love helps us face challenges with courage and kindness, and builds communities of belonging.
The Choose Love Formula™ teaches us:
Courage
To face challenges with bravery.
Gratitude
To focus on the good, even in difficulty.
Forgiveness
Setting and pursuing meaningful, realistic goals.
Compassion In Action
To turn empathy into meaningful service.
Global Event Highlights
May 1
Global Love Day
July 30
International Day of Love and Friendship
Resources
About Scarlett Lewis
Scarlett Lewis founded the nonprofit Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement in honor of her son, Jesse, who was murdered during the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in December 2012. Shortly after his death, Scarlett decided to be part of the solution to the issues that we’re seeing in our society — that also caused the tragedy — and turned it into an opportunity to build a culture of love, resilience, forgiveness, and connection in our communities at a time when it is needed the most.
Scarlett became a Character Social-Emotional Development Advocate to help children manage their emotions, feel connected, and have healthy, meaningful relationships. She created the Choose Love For Schools program, a no cost, comprehensive, lifespan, next generation character and social emotional development (CSED) program that teaches children how to thoughtfully respond with love in any situation by using the Choose Love Formula (Courage + Gratitude + Forgiveness + Compassion-in-Action), and offer ways for children to handle adversity, have courageous conversations, and to respond with love.