Y Love Notes: Recent Episodes
YMCA Teen Vibe: For Teens, By Teens
In the Love Notes program, teens explore topics around love and relationships like communication, personality styles, consent, and dating violence. Each episode on this podcast, current students will delve deeper into these topics building on what they have learned and sharing their own experiences.
If you are interested in learning more about the Love Notes program visit ymcalouisville.org
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.
Lynix and Jeylin talk about Dating and Domestic Violence. Including red flags and how to get help.
Resources listed:
loveisrespect.org
thehotline.org
Our host Jeremy was on location at the YMCA National Achievers Summit at the Blueridge Assembly in North Carolina to talk to the teens about being an Achiever.
Jeremy (AKA Jeffrey) and Naiya talk about teenage pregnancy including costs of raising a child.
Jeremy sits down with some Love Notes teens to talk brain chemicals, including how having a mental health diagnosis affects the brain chemicals of falling in love.
Arreonna, Ariana, Skye and Xzynthia talk healthy and unhealthy relationships.
Recorded in our June Teen Vibe Camp.
Arreonna, Ariana, and Skye reflect on the importance of Juneteenth and how POC still face racism today.
Recorded during June Teen Vibe Camp
Josiah and Josiah had the opportunity to interview UL Nursing students during the Spring Break Teen Vibe Camp.
Sounds like it was a good learning opportunity for both groups.
Love Notes staff recently visited Simmons College, Louisville's Only Historic Black College, and spoke to students about what advice they would give to their High School self about love and relationships.
https://simmonscollegeky.edu/
Love Notes staff recently visited Simmons College, Louisville's Only Historic Black College, and spoke to faculty and students about what black love means to them.
https://simmonscollegeky.edu/
Ariauna and Eltuan talk healthy relationships and expectations
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.
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.
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:
- PEA(Phenethylamine) and Norepinephrine elevate, giving feelings of joy and excitement; makes the heart race
- Dopamine the “feel-good” neurochemical increases. Gives a rush of pleasure, a desire to go after goals, greater sociability
- Oxytocin is the bonding hormone. It is triggered by touch.
- Serotonin levels may go down with romantic attraction. It reduces our ability to judge. It’s why you see no flaws.
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
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.
Trigger Warning: This episodes discusses themes of domestic violence and losing virginity.
Z, Lyssa, Yewanda, and Ja'Ziah discuss their perspectives of dating as young black women. Throughout the episode they discuss their experiences using concepts from Love Notes including setting expectations and the 3-6-9 Rule/
Recorded during the July Teen Vibe Love Notes camp.
Keheir and Jeremy talk about what they have learned from past relationships and their take on how to make someone's day!
Recorded in June Teen Vibe Camp
Devon and Jeremy are back discussing the philosophy of love. What is love?
Recorded during the June Teen Vibe Camp.
Devon, Avian, and Jeremy chat about how personality styles affect communication and relationships, both romantic, friendship, and familial.
Recorded during the June Teen Vibe Love Notes Camp.
Gio, Noah and Leah talk about relationships and talking to their parents about realtionships.
Jeremy interviews Leah about Love Notes concepts, including the love pyramid and pacing.
CamRon, Cameron and Daiya discuss their favorite parts of Love Notes including STD awareness.
Eltuan and Naiya discuss their favorite parts of Love Notes, including personality styles and communication!
Cam, Daiya, and Arriana sit down and chat about the music recorded in the Spring Break Love Notes camp!