The Love > hate Project’s mission is ending interpersonal violence, while promoting forgiveness in the presence of love.  
The project’s continued growth of their Forgiveness Program inside Wisconsin state prisons is making a difference. This year, they added two new facilitators to their team, meaning six facilitators will now bring “The Forgiveness Class” to inmates across seven state prisons.

Founder and Executive Director Buck Blodgett told WTKM that the class takes time.

"It's really cool, because it's the first thing we've done that's a long sustained program. You are not going to cause permanent transformations in people's actions, behavior and thinking in a one and done, typically."   

That means their programming will now reach 20 percent of the prisons in Wisconsin, according to Blodgett.

"It's research-based from Dr. Robert Enright out of UW Madison. He is a world leader in forgiveness research. The essence of the forgiveness class is that forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door, that stops the cycle of generational abuse and trauma. We are seeing it happening."

Dr. Enright is a professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

They create space during the forgiveness class for accountability, healing, growth, and hope, even in places where many feel forgotten.